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Veteran People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Member, Neend ‘Neil’ Kumar on Tuesday suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), a senior health sector official said. The official said Mr Kumar’s condition was listed as “stable” and he was due to have an angiogram. Mr Kumar was not seen at the service for late Dr ...

Even as Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) resumed flights on some routes after pilots began trickling back to work following a court order, at least three United States (US)-based Guyanese on Monday said they would sue the carrier for failing to fly them out of Guyana on Sunday after cockpit crews reported sick. Guyana’s Aviation Minister, Juan Edghill said CAL commenced ...

New York-based Guyanese opposition political activist Rickford Burke has fired back at Guyana’s Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s plan to go after participants at a conference on alleged racial and political discrimination against Afro-Guyanese that is expected to be headlined Democratic Leader in the United States House of Representatives, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries Mr Jagdeo clearly expressed his disgust at plans by ...

STATEN ISLAND, New York City (WABC) — It’s been three long months of surgeries, skin grafts, physical rehabilitation, and grief counseling. But Monday, three months to the day of a fatal fire that claimed the lives of 20 students in a girl’s dormitory in Guyana, the most critically burned patient will be discharged. Mariza Williams was a student at the school ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has dismissed any chance of Guyana’s National Assembly passing laws by a supermajority to force consensus between the government and opposition, suggesting that neighbouring Suriname’s super-majority decision-making process causes gridlock. “Just imagine people talk about power-sharing and the two sides sitting at the cabinet and they can’t reach agreement on anything. Like there is a country ...

Power company workers were Monday afternoon working feverishly to restore electricity to several areas in Demerara and Berbice after a major connection between Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara and the Sophia substations. The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) technicians were trying to ascertain whether road works on the East Bank Demerara might have caused the transmission line to trip. “Our ...

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is paying keen attention to what appears to be a sickout by Caribbean Airlines Limited’s (CAL) pilots that on Sunday grounded all of that carrier’s flights. CAL’s international, regional and domestic flights, including those to and from Guyana, have been canceled. The airline said on Sunday that the pilots reported sick about three hours ...

A Venezuelan woman on Saturday admitted to the stabbing death of a man at Kumung Kumung in Region 7 (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) hours after her refusal to dance with him had sparked off an altercation, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said. Investigators said Orianma Naomi Silva Figuera of Puerto Ordaz, a Venezuelan admitted that she stabbed the victim whose only name was ...

As part of the University of Guyana’s launch of its International Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, family members of John Gladstone, who had owned enslaved Africans in Guyana, will be here next week to apologise for their ancestor’s role in that most dehumanising period of world history. John Gladstone was the father of four-time British Prime Minister William Gladstone. ...

Three residents of Mocha are asking the High Court to declare that several of their constitutional rights were violated last January when government crushed their dwellings and other properties and forced them off an area of land near a new East Bank Demerara Road. Demerara Waves Online News understands that if the three applicants win this case, the judgement will ...