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Reproduced from Intercontinentalcry.org by Neil Anthony Giardino This September Lenox Shuman and fellow Arawak Amerindians marched to the Prime Minister’s office in Guyana’s capital, Georgetown, wearing war paint and clutching bows and arrows. It was a display of cultural identity that ended in a pledge to defend the country against neighboring Venezuela, who has laid claim to more than half of ...

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC), Guyana’s leading agency for disaster management, recently launched a 24-hour operational National Emergency Management System (NEMS) which will see the CDC becoming the hub for all emergencies in Guyana. The agency’s Director General Colonel (retired) Chabilall Ramsarup, in a recent interview with the Government Information Agency (GINA), indicated that the CDC never had a 24-hour ...

The discovery of a Self-Propelled Semi-Submersible vessel in north-western Guyana more than one year ago has led to the arrest and charge of several persons overseas, according to the Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU), James Singh. Singh said the four persons were arrested a few weeks after the discovery of the semi-submersible vessel in August, 2014. “The semi-submersible ...

Guyana is considering its options to force a Chinese company to pay the US$5 million outstanding from the sale of government’s shares in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) for US$30 million, according to a senior government official. The Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington said two options were being considered to force ...

One person was killed and several others were injured in a three-vehicle smash-up on the Sparendaam Public Road, East Coast Demerara. Preliminary information received is that a minibus, BPP 6074, and car, PTT 9788, were travelling in a westerly direction when the mishap occurred.  The bus and car drivers were arrested. Dead is 45-year old Patricia Mitchell. Her home address ...

The country’s anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc. (TIGI),  Tuesday called on Public Infrastructure Minister  David Patterson to release details of a probe into alleged irregularities in the procurement of pre-paid electricity meters and accused government of double-standards in dealing with those accused of corruption. “GPL is a major public entity and the Minister must understand that transparency is ...

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) on Tuesday suggested that the coalition administration so far appeared to have given lip-service to the plight of the lowly-paid sweeper-cleaners in their quest to be paid at least the minimum wage. President of that union, Patrick Yarde said current elected officials of the A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC)-led administration ...

Authorities hope to use the engine numbers of a go-fast boat that was found on the North West District (NWD) beach to track down its owners because the vessel was used in illegal activity, Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU), James Singh said Tuesday. “It is our belief that this vessel was engaged in some illegal type of activity- ...

Vice President Khemraj Ramjattan is defying requests made by Tourism Minister Cathy Hughes and civil society to remove the hide of a Jaguar – Guyana’s national animal, from the walls of his office. Over the past months several requests have been made and a social media campaign mounted to get the Vice President to remove the animals hide but to ...

The Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington Monday denied having any knowledge that the development of lands at Pradoville 2 were for top elected and other officials of the previous government. Brassington said all that NICIL was required to do was to spend more than GYD$70 million on developing the land at Goedverwagting-Sparendaam for ...