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Retired High Court judges, Brassington Reynolds and Franklin Holder have sued the Guyana government for failing to pay them a retroactive 8 percent salary increase on their annual rate of salary up to December 2021. In their lawsuits filed on October 10, 2024, by Attorney-at-Law Stephen Fraser, they said that is a violation of the Constitutional Offices (Remuneration of Holders) ...

Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes on Friday said a retired officer whose tenure has been extended or on contract could not be appointed substantive police commissioner, even as government maintained that there was no legal humbug to appointing Mr Clifton Hicken as the substantive police commissioner. Mr Hughes, an experienced criminal and civil lawyer, said the ...

American Airlines (AA) flight 1512, destined to leave Guyana for Miami, was Friday morning delayed by two hours due to a missing panel that was subsequently found, officials said. The panel, which covered an emergency light, was detected as absent when pilots checked their cockpit indicators, sources said. The panel was reportedly found at the back of a seat and ...

The Guyana government is cautious that Guyanese, regardless of their political preference, could be thinking of creating fake households and scheming other plans to cash in on more of the GY$200,000 per household cash grant than they are entitled to, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday. “It’s not an easy task when you’re dealing with large numbers of people and ...

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change boycotted Thursday’s parliamentary sitting to register its discontent with the way the People’s Progressive Party Civic-led administration is running the country. The gathering, which included several parliamentarians and local government councillors, held placards that read “If Guyana is to grow the PPP must go”, “Cost of living is killing workers; we ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced an almost US$50 million (GY$10 billion) cash-injection into the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) so that contributors who have not met the required number of contributions could still receive payments. Addressing a National Assembly sitting for several hours, Dr Ali also announced a one-off US$960 cash grant (GY$200,000) to each household, totalling US$290 million. The ...

A fire, which was caused by ignition of spilt fuel during a sale, destroyed 15 buildings at Puruni Landing, Mazaruni River, in Region 7 (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), but no one died in the inferno, police said. “Preliminary reports suggest the fire started while one of the workers at the ‘Miners Choice’ establishment was selling fuel. Some of the fuel spilt, ignited and ...

ExxonMobil Guyana’s President, Alistair Routledge on Wednesday almost totally ruled out any renegotiation of the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) because it would adversely impact on the company’s planned US$55 billion investment in Guyana. “We have no interest to invoke that Article. As I say, we’ve made US$55 billion worth of commitment to the country. To go back and to undermine ...

President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday announced that an innovation fund would be established at St Stanislaus College on Brickdam, Georgetown, to benefit the students and that institution. He said the aim is for students to apply critical thinking to develop ideas in areas such as entrepreneurship, products, and new scientific models. The President said the intent is to assist the ...

President Irfaan Ali said Tuesday night that nothing in Guyana’s Constitution or laws prohibit him from appointing Assistant Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken as substantive police commissioner although he has reached retirement age of 55 years. “There is no barrier legally or constitutionally from appointing him,” he told Demerara Waves Online News. Told that Mr Hicken has reached retirement age, Dr ...