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Executive member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR),  Aubrey Norton on Friday claimed that former government parliamentarian, Charrandass Persaud was bribed to vote in favour of an opposition-sponsored no-confidence motion, but he did not provide any evidence to back up his claim. Demerara Waves unreservedly withdraws any suggestion that Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo was involved in bribery as there ...

The Guyana Police Force on Friday confirmed that it was probing a report that a boy, at least 11 years old, died after a gold mining pit collapsed on him. The incident reportedly occurred on Thursday at Big Creek, Port Kaituma. A police force official said a team of law enforcement officers and officials of the Guyana Geology and Mines ...

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday welcomed the decision by Guyana’s top political leaders to accept the vote on the no-confidence motion that saw government being defeated. While the PSC was more direct in saying the next step should be general elections following the confidence vote, the Roman Catholic Church was cautious in saying ...

Even as the Guyana government continued to mull its legal options on dealing with the no-confidence motion that it lost last Friday, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Thursday wrote the Chief Justice, Roxane George-Wiltshire, asking to be heard in an any one-sided case that might be filed by the government. Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo told reporters that the letter ...

St John’s, 27 December – Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne has expressed sorrow at the death of Guyanese Sir Fenton Ramsahoye who was made a Knight of the Order of the Nation by the State of Antigua and Barbuda in 2006. “One of our distinguished Knights has fallen, and we in Antigua and Barbuda, join his family, friends ...

Attorney General of Guyana, Dr. Fenton Ramsahoye died in Barbados, Thursday morning, sending shock waves throughout the legal fraternity across the Caribbean. He was 89 years old. Former Guyana House Speaker, Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran said he was saddened at the passing of Ramsahoye who pioneered “a great deal” of constitutional developments in the Caribbean through legal victories at the ...

The Deputy Chairman of the main opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) in Linden, Akanni Blair has decided to join A New United Guyana (ANUG), less than three days after it announced its existence. Blair confirmed his move in an interview with Demerara Waves Online News, saying that while the governing David Granger-led coalition was not expected to win the next ...

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) Wednesday night urged Guyanese to ignore Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes’ calculation that 34 of the 65 votes in the National Assembly are needed to pass a no-confidence motion, even as checks in other countries show that an absolute majority is more than 50 percent after rounding up half a percent. “The Bar Council rejects as erroneous ...

A youth died in an early Wednesday-Boxing Day-morning road accident on the Corentyne Public Road when the car in which he and a young woman were travelling slammed into a refrigerator and rolled over several times, police said. Dead is the car driver Reoul Drepal-Saul, 20, while the occupant 18-year old Akesha Beaton has been hospitalized in a serious condition. ...

A Brazilian farmer was killed, hours after he had been at a house at Moco Moco village, Rupununi drinking at a house on Tuesday, Christmas day, police said. He has been identified as 44-year old Elvis Aulicio, 44, a farmer of Bon Fin, Brazil. Investigators are treating the incident as “murder”. A man has been taken into custody for questioning, police said. ...