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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday ruled that it could hear Guyana’s case on the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award that settled the land dispute with Venezuela, even as that Spanish-speaking country was criticised for not participating in the hearing on the jurisdiction of the World Court. The decision was by a majority of 12 votes ...

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has written President Irfaan Ali, demanding 10% to 30% risk allowances retroactive to January, 2020 as well as a bonus of one-month tax-free salary for all frontline healthcare workers. In a letter to the Guyanese leader, the union is also separately demanding a one-month tax-free salary to all healthcare workers as a separate payout. ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday said the Auditor General’s Office would be conducting an audit of the GYD$25,000  per household to ensure the monies were properly disbursed and ascertain if anyone did not receive the COVID-19 cash grant. He said he asked the Ministry of  Finance, Ministry of Human Services and the Auditor General to examine the concerns that have ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday  said he boycotted this week’s first-ever National Conversation because the government was not involved in planning the event and selecting the panelists, concerns about decision-making and silence by that constitutional body about the five-month long political crisis over the elections. “Every single stakeholder in Guyana agrees that democracy was under threat but the ERC did ...

High Court Judge, Naresh Harnanan on Thursday ruled that the Executive President has the authority to appoint Senior Counsel, clearing the way for the conferment of the title to three lawyers by President Irfaan Ali later in the afternoon. They are Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, and Attorneys-at-Law Timothy  Jonas and Jamela Ali. Mr. Jonas had challenged the role of the ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is questioning the apparent refusal by the Guyana government to hand over copies of key files to the Argentine Forensic Anthropologist concerning the killing of three youths in West Berbice earlier this year. “Finally, WPA takes this opportunity to demand the police and the government to come clean on what it knows about the murder ...

Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony on Thursday urged persons, who are planning to return to Guyana, to get the correct test for the potentially deadly coronavirus or they would not be allowed to board flights come here. He cautioned them against taking the Rapid Test (RT), which is an antigen test that is cheaper and takes a few hours to ...

Surinamese police have removed the remaining  number of Cubans at the South Drain, Nickerie Canawaima ferry port where they had been camping out for several weeks in the hope of crossing the Corentyne River to Guyana. They had ostensibly planned to seek asylum through the American embassy in Georgetown, but Guyanese authorities had said the Cubans’ real intention was to ...

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is probing the discovery of a quantity of smuggled alcohol in a police force vehicle in which the Region 9 Division Commander was travelling. A senior GRA official declined to comment on the occurrence immediately. Police Force spokesman Assistant Commissioner Royston Andries-Junor said two other ranks were  in the vehicle, PYY 2671. at the time. ...

Police Commissioner Nigel Hoppie early Wednesday morning accused Attorney-at-Law Nigel  Hughes of “grossly misrepresenting” the apprehension and arrest of Colwyn Henry, a brother of Joel Henry who was killed earlier this year in the backlands of  West Berbice. The Police Commissioner’s account is  that Colwyn Henry failed to produce his driver’s licence and he was prohibited from further driving the ...