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Weeks after Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Executive Member Tacuma Ogunseye made controversial remarks expecting support from the Afro-Guyanese dominated police and army should there be mass protests by Afro-Guyanese against alleged discrimination, police on Thursday issued a wanted bulletin. Police said is wanted for “several serious offences” and attempting to excite racial hostility or ill-will in violation of Guyana’s Racial ...

The Guyana Police Force’s Facebook page has been recovered, almost one day after it was hacked and removed, according to a well-placed source. The Police Force’s Public Relations Unit did not release any information about the disappearance and reappearance of the page which has almost 83,000 followers. That Social Media platform for the country’s major civilian law enforcement agency disappeared ...

The American Embassy in Guyana on Wednesday said it has tightened security and put Americans here on alert because of threats that have been issued. “Out of an abundance of caution, we want to inform U.S. citizens that the embassy has increased security protocols due to receiving threats against U.S. interests,” the embassy here said. A high-ranking Guyanese police officer ...

Though Guyanese police were yet to question executives of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) about controversial remarks that appear to encourage police and soldiers not to clamp down on anti-government street protests, Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Tuesday interpreted  them as a plot to topple the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration. “Tacuma Ogunseye went to Buxton Line-top and made ...

The United Kingdom’s (UK) trade with Guyana last year reached its highest value of more than 1 billion pounds sterling, largely due to the South American nation’s sale of crude oil to that European country, latest figures show. Britain’s Department for Business and Trade’s latest fact sheet dated March 28, 2023, exports and imports of goods and services between the ...

The Canadian government on Tuesday inked a CDN$2.5 million agreement with the non-governmental organisation, Giving Health to Kids, to improve maternal, newborn and child health in Guyana’s hinterland after research showed some worrisome findings. President of Giving Health to Kids, Associate Clinical Professor at Mc Master University, Dr Narendra Singh said the five-year project has been developed to increase the ...

As the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Tuesday pushed ahead with its call for a boycott of the June 12, 2023 Local Government Elections (LGE) and instead to use that day as one of Afro-Guyanese resistance against alleged racial discrimination, that party’s executive member Tacuma Ogunseye said he was ready to face a treason charge. “When we look at the ...

United Kingdom’s Minister for the Caribbean and the Americas, David Rutley arrived in Guyana on Monday for a series of engagements including the launch of the British Chamber of Commerce Guyana (BritCham Guyana) Mr Rutley was among passengers who arrived on British Airways’ inaugural flight  from London via St Lucia. Speaking at a welcome ceremony for the flight, he remarked ...

British Airways is projected to add tens of thousands of visitors annually to Guyana, Tourism Minister Oneidge Walrond said at Monday’s ceremony to welcome that carrier’s first scheduled to flight to this South American nation. She said that airline would offer more than 33,000 seats annually to travellers to and from Guyana to Britain with connections to other European destinations ...

Guyana’s rapidly emerging oil and gas sector needs 2,000 welders, prompting Labour Minister Joseph Hamilton to issue a stirring appeal to women to get trained in that field and other skills or face the possibility of imported labour from the Philippines. “Right now, we are short of 2,000 welders in this country so I’m urging women to think outside the ...