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by Zena Henry The government is not too happy with the amount of tax dollars that have gone into the former Ramotar-Administration initiated Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry so it is giving the body one more sitting following which a report of their findings is to be handed over to President David Granger within one month. This is according to ...

by Zena Henry The new Administration has apparently got its work cut out as several of the country’s main cash earners are either broke or continuously requiring bailout sums. Minister of State, Joseph Harmon during Cabinet’s weekly press briefing held at Ministry of the Presidency Thursday June 11 explained that the money from Venezuela’s oil for rice agreement with Guyana ...

Parliament on Wednesday stepped into the 21st Century when it brought Online its Parliamentary Live –Streaming Project which allowed Guyanese in Guyana and abroad to observe the goings on during the first sitting of the 11th Parliament. In addition to being able to see and listen to their newly-appointed Members of Parliament (MPs) and newly-elected Speaker take oaths and give ...

A woman who was busted for smuggling 10 kilos of cocaine to the U.S. from Guyana told authorities she thought the contraband was diamonds, a Brooklyn Federal Court complaint says. Alizah Henry, a U.S. citizen, was arrested over the weekend at Kennedy Airport after U.S. Customs and Border Protection cops found in her suitcase four bags of white powder labeled ...

by Zena Henry The course of the 11th Parliament has been set with President David Granger outlining undone laws, border security, infrastructural development and empowerment of autonomous bodies, as key areas to be tended to. Addressing the National Assembly Wednesday June 10, exclusive of the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), the President charged that this Parliament has the honour of ...

The first sitting of the 11th Parliament took place on Wednesday, June 10th and the second sitting is slated for June 25th, but the refusal of the Opposition party to take up its seats can impede the functioning of some Parliamentary committees and degrade the scrutiny value of others. In fact, the ability of the National Assembly itself to scrutanise ...

by Zena Henry In his first address to the Parliament, President David Granger has once again called on the opposition to take their seats in National Assembly to represent the 49 percent of the population that would have voted for them at the recently held General and Regional Elections. At the opening of the House of Assembly Wednesday June 10, ...

Guyana will be asking the United Nations (UN) to take steps to settle the border controversy with Venezuela legally, days after that Spanish-speaking neighbour decided to claim all the territorial waters off Essequibo as hers, Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge said Wednesday. In a statement to the National Assembly on the issue, Greenidge said the only alternative that Guyana has at ...

People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) candidate, Attorney – at – Law Euclin Gomes is moving to the High Court to challenge an alleged instruction by Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Simona Broomes, to the Public Service Commission (PSC) for it to temporarily cease interviews. Court documents seen by Demerara Waves Online News today, show that Gomes, who is ...

CARACAS, June 10, 2015 (AFP) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday blamed Exxon Mobil for strains with neighboring Guyana over disputed territorial waters, and said diplomacy should ultimately win out. A decree issued by Caracas on May 27 lays claim to waters off the Essequibo River region, a disputed territory that borders Venezuela and encompasses more than half of Guyana. The Venezuelan ...