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The Chairman of the United States (US) Congressional sub-committee on the Western Hemisphere, Albio Sires has said that his country intends to engage Guyana to ensure all Guyanese benefit from the country’s growing oil wealth. “In Guyana, where I travelled this year, we should work to ensure that proceeds of oil revenues benefit the entire population,” he said in a ...

Four persons were Tuesday charged with the murder of Haresh Singh at Number Three Village, West Coast Berbice last year September, police said Tuesday. The Guyana Police Force said it has “received legal advice as it relates to instituting charges against” the quartet. Four persons, who were arrested by ranks from the Guyana Police Force’s Major Crimes Unit, were charged ...

Insisting that President Irfaan Ali’s suspension of the Police Service Commission (PSC) is unconstitutional, Retired Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe and others on Monday announced the promotion of several officers. In a letter to the President, the lawyers for Slowe and the others, their lawyer Selwyn Pieters stated that the purported suspension was unconstitutional because the Tribunal has not been established ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Monday ruled against several officers of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) who had challenged the refusal of the Police Service Commission to promote them because they have pending disciplinary matters. “There is nothing unlawful in considering disciplinary matters in the determination of whether the applicants should be promoted. Therefore, the declarations and certiorari sought cannot ...

As engineers make efforts to drain the yards of more than 1,000 residents in the agriculture-dependent community of Wash Clothes, Mahaicony, the Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha said the long-term plan includes addressing concerns about occupying the government reserve. During his latest visit to the area on Saturday, the minister told flood-weary residents that engineers would this week build damns ...

Three men have been killed in an explosion aboard a coastal fuel tanker at a wharf at Friendship, East Bank Demerara while gasoline was being pumped out of the vessel into plastic bottles, police said. “At the time there were no maintenance works being conducted on the said vessel,” police said and “It appears that the deceased were pumping gasoline ...

The Telecommunications Agency (TA) is about to allocate additional frequency spectrum to Guyana’s three major telecommunications providers, according to a publication in the Official Gazette. “The proposed frequency assignments are to facilitate 4G and 5G service deployment by the said operators,” TA Director Andre Griffith told Demerara Waves Online News/ News-Talk Radio Guyana 103.1 FM. The spectrum is earmarked for ...

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC)  on Friday flayed the Irfaan Ali-led administration for preferring pumps instead of food from Trinidad and Tobago to assist flood-affected residents. The coalition said flood-hit communities were still suffering from severe food shortages and there was no reason for Guyana not taking food from Trinidad. “Thousands of flood victims are ...

Canada, which has already donated GYD$8.4 million to aid with flood relief, had committed to assisting with long-term recovery efforts, Canadian High Commissioner, Mark Berman said. “On behalf of the Government of Canada, we are very pleased to assist Guyana in combating their flooding situation, and I just want to state our resolve to help Guyana address the immediacy of ...

The European Union (EU) on Friday said it was channeling more than 150,000 Euros (GYD$37 million) to the Guyana Red Cross Society to support people affected by the recent wave of intense floods that has hit communities across the country. The EU says the Guyana Red Cross Society, which is present in all affected districts, will be providing the relief. ...