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Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform , David Granger has  cast doubt on his participation in any of the meetings of former Presidents, saying that there is no constitutional role for him in such talks. Mr. Granger instead said the Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon should be the representative in such talks with President Irfaan Ali. He said there was ...

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit says agents this morning seized a quantity of un-customed goods and two vehicles and arrested a known smuggler has been arrested. He, the vehicles and goods have been handed over to the Guyana Revenue Authority. The arrest and seizure were made at the Skeldon / Crabwood Creek Area, Corentyne, East Berbice. CANU describes the detainee as ...

Three Guyanese youths have  been selected to participate in the U.S. Department of State’s Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellowship Program. The American embassy in Georgetown said the programme would bring together 263 young leaders together from 37 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada for a virtual fellowship. This year, three young leaders from Guyana have been accepted ...

Anglican priest George Chuck-a-Sang has been beaten and stabbed to death at his residence on Vlissengen Road, Lodge, Georgetown, police said Tuesday. His daughter, Renata Chuck-a-Sang, reportedly told police that after she failed to reach her 82-year-old father again by phone and WhatsApp, she and current Priest Monsell Alves later went to his residence and discovered his body. “As a ...

Guyana is about to expand its COVID-19 task force to prepare the country for the importation, storage and distribution of vaccines to immunise people against the virus that has so far killed 159 persons locally, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony announced Monday. “What we are looking for is specific types of expertise as it relates to vaccine so whether people ...

The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) on Monday announced that it has suspended mail service to the United Kingdom (UK), following rising global fears about the rapid spread of a new variant of the coronavirus, COVID-19. “Customers sending letters and parcels to London are asked to note that all mails to this destination have been suspended until further notice,” the ...

The International Court of Justice has said that Venezuela is bound by its decisions even if it does not recognise the jurisdiction of that United Nations juridical body. “A judgment on jurisdiction, as on the merits, is final and binding on the parties under Articles 59 and 60 of the Statute,” the World Court said last Friday in deciding that ...

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Monday condemned the Private Sector Commission’s call for several election commission officials, who have been charged with election-related offences, saying that business organisation must stop being a mouthpiece for the People’s Progressive Party. “This is wicked and unacceptable. The APNU (A Partnership for National Unity) condemns this kind of political posturing by the Private Sector ...

Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield continues to be on more than 100 days vacation leave for more  than two months now, spokeswoman for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Yolanda Ward said Monday. “That accumulation was  there and he applied for that leave,” she told News-Talk Radio Guyana 103.1 FM/ Demerara Waves Online News. Private criminal charges, which had been instituted ...

Venezuela has rejected the decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to accept jurisdiction to hear the controversy over the 1899 settlement of the land boundary with Guyana. “The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela repudiates the ruling issued by the ICJ in the aforementioned terms, while claiming, once again, the validity of the 1966 Geneva Agreement and ratifying that it ...