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A group of Cubans in Guyana on Monday afternoon protested outside the Cuban embassy, in solidarity with their fellow citizens back in Cuba who are involved in countrywide protests there. Citizens of the Cuban communist -run Caribbean nation, in a historic, move have taken to the streets in Cuba to protest economic hardship in the country, lack of democracy, food ...

The Guyana Police Force has been securing an average of just over 20 percent convictions for domestic violence cases in recent times, based on figures released by Police Commissioner Nigel Hoppie even as he welcomed more conducive conditions at courts for victims to testify. In a rare disclosure of detailed crime statistics in recent years, Mr. Hoppie said in 2019 ...

Second doses of the Sputnik vaccine have arrived in Guyana but priority will be given to persons who got their first dose in April, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony said Monday. “We have now been able to get second dose Sputnik V into the country and, as of tomorrow, we will start administering the second dose of the Sputnik-V,” he ...

An enforcement officer of the Guyana Revenue Authority was early Monday morning stabbed to death allegedly by the landlady’s son while demanding that he vacate the apartment he is renting. Dead is 24-year old Dwayne Daniel Taitt. Police say he was killed by the landlady’s son, one day after the landlady notified him that he has to vacate the apartment ...

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has added 20 more call centre agents, as part of its overall efforts to improve the company’s response to customers’ queries and reports. The new agents graduated last Friday, and the company said the move aims to make it “a customer centric organisation.” Reminding that one of the company’s three promises is to ...

Amid a steep rise in the cost of living, the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has again requested a meeting to begin wage and salary negotiations for 2020-2021. “It should be noted that there is an astronomically increase in the cost of living and the last salary increase was granted in 2019, and allowances were reviewed more than two decades ...

Police Commissioner, Nigel Hoppie on Sunday issued an instruction presumably to the public relations team  after the media posed questions about the alleged disappearance of part of GYD$3 million reward for information concerning the killing of teenage cousins Joel and Isaiah Henry. At 10:11 AM Sunday, reporter Travis Chase asked, “Morning Stan, Mark …… can you confirm that the $3 ...

Prominent Caribbean Law Professor, Rose-Marie Belle Antoine on Thursday said COVID-19 vaccination could be made compulsory without violating human rights, constitution and the law. “It’s a fairly easy sell for me to accept that mandatory vaccination is constitutionally legitimate and we have good precedent for it since we already have laws mandating vaccines for children’s entry into schools,” said Ms. ...

Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield is asking the High Court to block Elections Commissioners Sase Gunraj and Bibi Shadick from participating in hearing a motion for his immediate dismissal on the grounds that he needs a fair hearing. The pro-People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Election Commissioners have also filed motions in GECOM for the Deputy Chief Elections Officer  Roxanne Myers and ...

Guyanese police on Thursday said they have arrested three men suspected of being involved in burning down the Linden office of the Guyana Elections Commission  (GECOM) last year, and they are looking for a man believed to be the mastermind. “Police investigators are also pursuing an official in Linden who is said to be the intellectual author behind the burning ...