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Eight persons died in three separate accidents on Saturday and Sunday at Canal Number 2, West Bank Demerara; Unity, East Coast Demerara and Number 11 Village, East Berbice, police said. Police said at about 1:30 Sunday morning, four teenagers died in an accident on the Resource Public Road, Canal Number 2 Polder, West Bank Demerara when the speeding car they ...

The descendants of a British slave owner on Friday came to Guyana and offered their “sincerest apologies” for the role he played in enslaving Africans on sugar and coffee plantations in Demerara, but this significant national event failed to attract top cabinet officials in person. “Slavery was a crime against humanity and its damaging impact continues to be felt across ...

Apology read by family representative Charles Gladstone To the People of Guyana. We, the undersigned, are descendants of Sir John Gladstone, 1″ Baronet of Fasque and Balfour, and wish to offer our sincerest apologies for his actions in holding your ancestors in slavery in Demerara, now Guyana. We are deeply honoured to be in Guyana at the invitation of The ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday night said he was fairly optimistic that the government would give in to demands for biometric screening of voters to avoid electoral fraud but signaled that if not was not done the results could be rejected. “I’m saying this to you: once there is a clean voters list, once there is biometrics, the outcome ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday ruled out disclosing the names of persons he said knew alleged attempts to mislead his government about a six-year long “insurgency” whose aim had been to “dislodge” his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration. He said they included villagers in “those communities” and soldiers who helped to expose the sterilise versions of the documents ...

The heirs of late British slaveowner, John Gladstone, are to also apologise for both slavery and indentureship, the University of Guyana (UG) said on Thursday. The apology is scheduled to be issued in Friday morning at the University of GGuyan’s launch of Centre of Migration and Diaspora Studies. “The University of Guyana wishes to clarify that the apology it helped ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Thursday defended the right of a woman at the recently held Cuffy250 forum to characterise the role and status of Muslim women at home and at mosques,and accused two Muslim organisations of creating divisions between the party and Indo-Guyanese. In a joint statement, the Central Islamic Organisation (CIOG) and the Guyana Islamic Trust (GIT) ...

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said government has taken a reasonable decision to hire workers on contract, in an apparent strong rebuke of an international trade unionist who advised against the employment of workers contractually. In her feature address to the opening of the 22nd delegates’ congress of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), General Secretary of the ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Wednesday insisted that the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration granted a second one-year extension due to COVID19 pandemic and failed to conduct an agreed quarterly review, but a top government oil sector policymaker rubbished the claim about an additional extension. “There is absolutely no extension,” the official told Demerara Waves Online News on ...

The ExxonMobil-led consortium of Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) had been granted one-year extensions of its three prospecting licences in the Stabroek, Canje and Kaieteur offshore oil blocks during the latter months of the David Granger-led administration because of the COVID-19 virus, according to letters released on Tuesday by the Ministry of Natural Resources. The almost identical letters ...