Former Alliance For Change (AFC) executive member, Dominic Gaskin is poised to take up an engagement with the Irfaan Ali-led administration that will focus on developing Guyana’s gold jewellery sector, the businessman confirmed on Thursday. “The President has a vision for the jewellery sector, the gold sector, and, as you know, I’ve long been an advocate for development of the ...
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High Court awards GY$24 million for police killing of Quindon Bacchus
High Court Judge, Nigel Niles on Wednesday awarded GY$24 million in damages and expenses concerning the police shooting death of Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara villager, Quindon Bacchus. Bacchus, 25, was shot multiple times by a policeman and on June 10, 2022 at at Haslington, East Coast Demerara. While the State has charged police Lance Corporal Kristoff De Nobrega with ...
Read More »PPP hopes GECOM will be ready in eight months for elections
The governing People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) expects the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will be ready by next July to hold general elections, party General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday. “GECOM has to be ready. They should have been ready by March 2nd because that’s when elections were held but I actually said August because that’s when the President was ...
Read More »Opposition criticises President for publicly berating ministers, PSs, contractors; Ali calls approach ‘openness’
The opposition has delivered a stinging backlash to President Irfaan Ali for publicly scolding a number of his ministers, permanent secretaries as well as contractors over the failure to complete works on time, but the Guyanese leader on Wednesday fended off criticisms and said it was his way of providing transparency. “If you look at my style, you have to ...
Read More »President defends decision to keep GuySuCo afloat despite unprofitable production cost
President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday sought to justify his People’s Progressive Party Civic’s (PPPC) administration to keep the limping state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) operational in its present form, although the US$1.31 per pound cost of production exceeds the selling price of US$0.35 cents per pound. “We cannot look at sugar only from that measurement that you used because there ...
Read More »Guyanese workers to help build oil production and storage vessel
SBM Offshore, which has been contracted to build an offshore oil production ship, would be using Guyanese workers to fabricate parts for the vessel and shipping them to Singapore for installation, a senior company official said. Country General Manager of SBM Offshore (Guyana), Martin Cheong told Demerara Waves Online News that while the company would not be making money from ...
Read More »Trio jailed, fined for 10 kilo cocaine trafficking
Three men were Tuesday found guilty for trafficking in 10 kilogrammes of cocaine and each jailed for more than three years and fined more than GY$45 million, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said. Those convicted by Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court are Denzil Park, Ricardo Denhart and Patrick Ram. CANU said they were each sentenced to three ...
Read More »U.S. boosts Guyana’s capacity to intercept illegal guns, ammo
The United States (U.S.) government has trained and equipped several officers of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) to intercept illicit firearms and ammunition, the embassy in Guyana said Tuesday. “Training topics included firearms tracing, methods of illicit export, global and regional trends in small arms and light weapons detection, weapons identification and their components, forensic ...
Read More »India’s Prime Minister to address Guyana’s Parliament, Indians here
India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi is due to visit Guyana next week for a packed three-day agenda that would include addresses to Guyana’s National Assembly and Guyana’s Indian community, government here ann0unced 0n Tuesday. “The Honourable Prime Minister is also scheduled to address the National Assembly of the Parliament of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. Also on his agenda is ...
Read More »KLM Royal Dutch Airlines adds Guyana to its network
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines on Tuesday announced the addition of Georgetown, Guyana into its global network. Effective the 4th of June 2025, Georgetown, Guyana will be connected to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with two weekly flights operating on Wednesdays and Saturdays, the airline said. KL789 (KLM789) will be operated in combination with St. Maarten, departing from Amsterdam (AMS) at 10:00 Local ...
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