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Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Monday-New Year’s Day 2024- said the serving of summonses to New York-based Guyanese opposition activist, Rickford Burke, is a sign of the further deterioration of human rights by the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration. “Its assault on our freedoms of expression and association reached even more dangerous heights, as the recent court summons served ...

President Irfaan Ali and Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Monday broke New Year 2024 with different accounts on whether Guyanese are pocketing more money or are grappling with serious poverty. While the Guyanese leader boasted of a “phenomenal” 40 percent economic growth in 2023, a more than 21.5 percent increase in the salary base of all public servants since 2020, ...

President Irfaan Ali on Monday- New Year’s Day 2024- announced that steps would be taken to reduce the number of traffic accidents on Guyana’s roads, even as a number of traffic offences are committed just outside State House and the Police Headquarters at least weekly. In his New Year’s Message, Dr Ali said the carnage on Guyana’s roads “will be ...

A female vendor of the Parika Facade, East Bank Essequibo was early Sunday morning allegedly beaten to death by her husband who has since been arrested, the Guyana Police Force said. The dead woman has been identified as 25-year old Parbattie Amanda Persaud and the alleged perpetrator is 39-year old Guradean Lallaram, a mason, of Parika Facade. Investigators were informed ...

A vendor of D’urban Backlands Squatting Area, Georgetown was shot and assaulted by two of three men who turned up at his home late last week, police said. The motive for the attack on 31-year-old Quason Leacock was not known, but the man told investigators that one of the men only known as “Tallman’ asked him in an aggressive manner ...

A 56-year-old man of Wismar, Linden was Saturday afternoon chopped to death but not before slashing his brothers-in-law several times after they went to rescue their sister and her children from their home. the Guyana Police Force said Sunday. Dead is John Jones of Block 22 Squatting Area, Wismar. Investigators said his body was found lying at the back of ...

A senior Guyana Chronicle editorial staff member has been sent on leave as police on Saturday continued their investigation into sexual misconduct allegedly committed on a female member of the editorial department. “The male employee was immediately sent on administrative leave pending the outcome of the police investigation,” the Guyana National Newspapers Limited (GNNL), publisher of the Guyana Chronicle newspaper, ...

Venezuela’s combined opposition, Democratic Unitary Platform, early Saturday reiterated its position that the Venezuela-Guyana border controversy should be settled by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), even as it strenuously objected to the presence of a British warship in the waters of this former British colony. “From the Democratic Unitary Platform, we reiterate that Venezuelans have solid legal documents to ...

Even as Brazil on Friday registered its objection to the British warship, HMS Trent, in Guyana’s waters, a senior government official said his country would determine what it does with its territory. “Only GUYANA will determine what Guyana does in its territorial land, air and sea spaces in accordance with international laws,” Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud said on his Facebook ...

The contractor that is rehabilitating Cemetery Road, Georgetown could be fired next month if he does not complete the more than one-year long works on that north-south thoroughfare, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said Friday. “The contractor has received a revised deadline of January 2024 to complete this road and I could say here that if January end comes and ...