A day after President Donald Ramotar announced in New York that preparations have begun for the International Commission of Inquiry into the death of Working Peoples Alliance (WPA) co-leader, Dr. Walter Rodney 33 years ago, that party on Friday called on government to follow the rules in getting the probe off the ground. Addressing at least 140 persons at Woodbine ...

A man was Friday morning arraigned for the murder of a policeman at his home earlier this week, but he claimed that he was beaten and forced to sign a confession statement. Vickram Persaud, 28, was not required to plea to the indictable charge of murder allegedly committed on Constable Michael Cumberbatch at North Sophia on September 23. The accused ...

The AFC says it will not be “swayed” into a coalition with the PPP/C nor the APNU ahead of the next elections as it continues to lose members. The remark was made at a party news conference on Thursday with Treasurer Dominic Gaskin indicating that it was in response to comments in sections of the media. “While we recognise the ...

(GINA) A new facility is to be established to make it easier to prosecute perpetrators who commit sexual abuse of children and to cater for the recovery of victims. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Thursday formalising a partnership among the Child Care and Protection Agency, Forward Guyana and Child Link with regards to the establishment of the ...

(CTV NEWS).-Swimming in the shallow, tannin-coloured waters of the upper Mazaruni River in Guyana lurks the Akawaio penak: a previously unknown genus of electric fish which was recently identified by a team of international scientists, including a Canadian researcher. Using tissue samples collected from two earlier expeditions in 2008 and 2011 from the largely unexplored region in Guyana’s north, Toronto-based ...

Veteran broadcaster and actor, Ron Robinson was recovering from a serious accident involving a high-powered motorcycle. A neck brace, respirator and monitoring equipment have been removed from him and up and he was resting comfortably up to late Wednesday night in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). His broken left leg was very swollen. The ...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has appealed to the international community to support the Region’s call for the immediate review of the criteria used by multilateral financial institutions (MFIs) and some development partners to graduate small highly indebted middle income countries (SHIMICS) from access to concessional resources. The appeal was issued by Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago ...

NEW YORK – September 26, 2013 – NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG) and Digicel on Thursday jointly announced at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York a partnership to acquire, construct and operate renewable energy projects under development in the Caribbean region. NRG and Digicel stand ready to bring financial and environmental benefits to the governments, utilities and peoples ...

President Donald Ramotar on Thursday chided sections of the West for displaying double-standards in political upheavals in Egypt and Syria, saying that those actions all amounted to terrorism. He was at the time addressing the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York- the main deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the institution’s 193 member countries. “We ...

Students of Mahdia Primary School and their parents are Thursday protesting what they say is the dismissal of the Head Teacher based on a series of trumped up charges including absenteeism and alleged unaccountability of school funds. The overwhelming majority of students have stayed away and have been joined by their parents in front of the school to press demands ...