Accountability

The Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn, on Tuesday said the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF’s) “biggest immediate ongoing problem” was alleged corruption in procurement which was now the subject of investigation. “They have started reviews and investigations and audits in relation to the Guyana Police Force and also in relation to the other two agencies,” he said in reference to ...

Just days after Deputy Police Commissioner Calvin Brutus was reassigned from administration to Head of Special Branch, the Guyana Police Force said Thursday afternoon that he has gone on leave to allow a probe into alleged financial misdeeds. Mr Brutus allegedly deposited GY$16.5 million into his Police Credit Union account on December 15, 2023. The money was returned to him ...

One day after Acting Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken denied that a high-ranking police officer ever deposited tens of millions of dollars into a Guyana Police Credit Union account, fresh information has surfaced showing that the money was deposited and returned to that officer. The officer, Deputy Police Commisioner Calvin Brutus, on Wednesday opted to remain silent when he was questioned ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Apr 15, CMC – Former Montserrat premier Reuben Meade Monday said he found it “rather interesting” that subordinate body within the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) had been able to send the president of the financial institution on administrative leave. “It is like the tail wagging the dog. As a matter of fact it is like fleas controlling ...

A mid-morning fire on Friday destroyed the Guyana Prison Service quarters on Parade Street, Kingston. The building once housed the Kingston Nursery School. Students attending classes at Chase’s Academy and a nursery school were evacuated as thick smoke filled the air. There were no immediate reports of any casualties. Parents and teachers, assisted by several policemen and women, assisted in ...

A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, Volda Lawrence on Friday  recommended that there be a constitutionally entrenched amount of Guyana’s oil revenues that must be saved for future generations in the Natural Resources Fund (NRF). “This House must now consider a minimum percentage value in the NRF that must remain as inter-generational savings and this must be ...

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders on Friday, backing Guyana’s position to resolve the border controversy with Venezuela through the International Court of Justice (ICJ), called for talks between Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali and the President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro. “CARICOM calls for a de-escalation of the conflict and for appropriate dialogue between the leaders of Venezuela and Guyana to ensure peaceful ...

The University of Guyana (UG) on Friday said it was “appalled” at alleged utterances by a part-time lecturer and has asked its Law Department to conduct a probe. “The evidence and the circumstances surrounding the conversation are now being investigated by the Department of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences. This type of behaviour is unacceptable and is against the University’s ...

Opposition Shadow Local Government Minister, Ganesh Mahipaul and Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha on Wednesday were at loggerheads 0ver the claims by that APNU+AFC parliamentarian that the termination of a contract to build an irrigation pump at Black Bush Polder would result in a loss of more than GY$38 million. But Mr Mustapha countered saying that his ministry’s National Drainage ...

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Wednesday definitively ruled out any possibility of the US$214 million in disputed audited costs for expenses incurred from 1999 to 2017 being changed, leaving the door open now for the company to move to arbitration.  “The Authority wishes to categorically re-iterate that it stands by its advice to the Ministry of Natural Resources and ...