The Netherlands has offered to assist the Guyana in the formulation of a plan to improve drainage and irrigation country-wide.  This is according to Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, who told a post-Cabinet press conference on Wednesday, that “we have…been offered and pending approval from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, assistance from the Netherlands.” Since time immemorial, successive governments ...

by Zena Henry The government feels somewhat vindicated in its claims that certain occurrences relating to crime are the work of ‘intellectual authors.’ That was the notion of Minister of State Joseph Harmon as he weighed in on the now viral interview of Shawn Hinds who recently confessed that he was part of a ‘death squad.’ A death squad carried ...

by Zena Henry Guyana has put a one-week halt to the expansion work at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) and is expected during that time, to meet with executives of the China Harbour Engineering Corporation (CHEC) to hammer out differences concerning their contract. Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson told Demerara Waves Wednesday July 22, that the work at ...

Government has revealed that GPL Chief Executive Officer, Administration, Aeshwar Deonaraine, has been sent on administrative leave after it was found out that he wrongfully paid himself $27.8 million from the Petro-Caribe Fund. Additionally, government has learned that a Director of the Board of Directors of Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc., Carvil Duncan, wrongfully authorised payment to himself to ...

Police say self-confessed death squad member, Shawn Hinds, is not wanted for the shooting death of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing earlier this year. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum on Wednesday told Demerara Waves Online News that Hinds has not been fingered in Crum-Ewing’s killing on March 10, 2015 at Diamond, East Bank Demerara. At the ...

The Guyana government has reached an agreement with the Surinamese beverage company, RUDISA International NV, with regard to the repayment of a judgement of US$7.72M in keeping with a ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). The agreement includes the repayment of a reduced sum. Harmon refused to disclose the reduced debt, opting only to say that it would ...

A former policeman has admitted that he was a member of a death squad that was responsible for bringing down several heavily armed criminals who had escaped from the Georgetown Prison in February 2002. “I was in a death squad,” said Shawn Hinds who is a former bodyguard for now sacked Town Clerk, Carol Sooba. His confession comes at time ...

by Zena Henry Minister of State Joseph Harmon said that Guyanese can look forward to working indirectly in the country’s rising oil and gas sector as early as next month. He made the announcement last Sunday during an interview with Nice FM Radio in Antigua. The minister answered questions by the Antiguan radio station which related to the government’s operations since ...

Reroduced from the Fiji Times Online TWO Guyana nationals from South America were admitted to the bar at the High Court in Suva after midday today. The admission ceremony was presided over by Chief Justice Anthony Gates. Andrew Liverpool, 25, and Shinella Andrea Ghent, 27, both graduated with a law degree from the University of Guyana and attained their Graduate ...

by Zena Henry The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has upheld a ruling prohibiting the Guyana Telephone and Telegram Company (GTT) from denying internet access to one of its customers who made and received international calls using Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”); technology provided by US Company Vonage. The ruling could have possibly opened the flood gates for other GTT ...