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High Court Judge, Gino Persaud has hit out at Attorney General Anil Nandlall for saying that if the court had recognised an arbitral award that monies owed to Venezuela and its state-owned oil company, PDVSA, were to be released to American oil company, ConocoPhillips, whose assets had been nationalised by the Venezuelan government, this would be anti-nationalist tantamount to potential ...

The University of Guyana (UG) has introduced a Bachelor of Science Degree in Respiratory Care (BSRC) programme, making Guyana the first country in the Caribbean region to have conceptualised such an initiative in its healthcare education system, officials said Wednesday. It was developed within a record time of 11 months. The programme, a collaboration between the Ministry of Health, UG, ...

Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has declared that the Security Council lacks democracy because any of its Permanent members could derail a majority of members. Speaking at a discussion about next September’s UN Summit of the Future, she said the Security Council does not represent the will of the majority. “The Security Council is ...

Professor Kenneth Benjamin, the Head of the Law Department at the University of Guyana (UG), was honoured by the Hugh Wooding Law School for his distinguished career in the legal field, the university said Thursday.  Recognised for his extensive contributions to law and justice, Professor Benjamin was the only Guyanese among seven honourees at the institution’s 50th anniversary celebrations. The ...

Police said an intelligence-led operation was conducted in Kitty, Georgetown at about 05:30 hours today (Wednesday, July 24th, 2024), during which a total of 26 handguns and high-powered rifles, along with a cache of ammunition, were found. Six persons have been arrested and are in custody assisting with the investigation. The police team, led by a superintendent, went to Lot ...

Police Wednesday morning seized several guns that were in a car parked outside the then residence of Ricardo “Paper Shorts” Fagundes in March, 2021, sources confirmed. Three persons, including two women, were transported from the scene by police, according to a source. Police, in several vehicles, swooped down on the Sandy Babb Street, Kitty, Georgetown location and seized the weapons. ...

Two Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldiers have been denied their pre-trial liberty and remanded to prison after they pleaded not guilty to a charge of being in possession of 154 pounds of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, police said Tuesday. Soldiers Clovis Sam, 31, of Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown and Adisa Higgins, 42, of Wismar Housing Scheme, Linden were arraigned ...

Kingston, 22 July 2024—A new report released today by UNAIDS shows the world is at a critical moment that will determine whether world leaders meet their commitment to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. The report, ‘The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads’, brings together new data and case studies which demonstrate that the decisions and policy choices taken by world leaders this year will decide the fate of ...

Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony on Tuesday announced that Guyana has embarked on a plan to make HIV (Human Immuno-deficiency Virus) treatment widely available at all health facilities in order to weed out fears of stigma and discrimination by infected persons going to special treatment centres. “One of the things that we’re doing right now to address this problem is ...

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Tuesday said it had no problem with the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) investigating alleged corruption in that law enforcement agency, despite calls in other quarters for an independent probe. “SOCU was designed, in 0ur view, to be that source to do police investigation and other investigation as it was ...