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Despite last year’s questionable referendum that rejected the International Court of Justice as the means of settling the border controversy, Venezuela has submitted arguments to the World Court. The Guyana government on Monday welcomed Venezuela’s decision to do so. “Guyana has repeatedly called on Venezuela to participate fully in the judicial proceedings and comply with the Court’s rulings, and therefore ...

A saleswoman of Recht-Door-Zee, West Bank Demerara was killed and her husband committed suicide, leaving behind a note that implicated the woman in being unfaithful. The body of 56-year old Sarah Bacchus-Arjoon and her husband, 69-year old Khemraj Arjoon were found by their 13-year old daughter when she returned home at about 3:30 Sunday afternoon.  “The body (of the woman) ...

A tug and a barge on Sunday drifted and struck the Demerara Harbour Bridge, resulting in the deployment of emergency workers but officials said the movement of vehicles across the east-west thoroughfare would not be affected severely. “Yes, there has been an incident. It has not put the Demerara Harbour Bridge out of service,” Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said. ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is ready to assist a broad cross section of Guyanese understand the various aspects of Intellectual Property (IP) protection, amid observations that local IP laws are outdated. “Unfortunately, like everything else, laws tend to lag at issues and one of the areas in which the law is lagging is in terms of ...

-recalls being stripped of guards, vehicles Former Prime Minister of Guyana, Moses Nagamootoo on Friday appealed for steps to be taken to entrench national unity in Guyana regardless of which political party is in power, as he spoke at the launch of his latest book. “Dear Land of Guyana is the Dear Land of All of Us. It is not ...

A man was late Friday night arrested for alleged illegal possession of 15 bullets that are used in an AK-47 assault rifle, after his child’s mother reported that he assaulted and threatened her with a gun, the Guyana Police Force said Saturday. Investigators said the ammunition was found at the man’s residence on Middle Walk, Buxton, East Coast Demerara at ...

Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, David Patterson on Friday called out the private sector’s silence on the poor state of electricity generation in Guyana due to bad investments, brain drain and a botched maintenance plan. The Guyana government this week said there could be management changes at the Guyana Power and Light and Power Producers ...

President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that government was willing to “bring in” doctors to address a backlog of cases in the public health sector if those already in the system would be unable to do so. “If we have a backlog in a specific area, which are these areas and which areas will require us to bring in specialised ...

A well-known Prashad Nagar, Georgetown resident, who describes herself as a businesswoman, was Friday convicted and sentenced to five years imprisonment for being in possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said. Lena ‘Aunty Lena’ Narine was also fined GY$17.1 million by Magistrate Rondel Weever. CANU said Narine was convicted for trafficking in 11.4 ...

Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr. Amery Browne has called on Venezuela to respect the territorial integrity of Guyana, the Trinidad Guardian reported on Friday. He says Caricom remains united on this issue. Browne made those statements on Thursday as Guyana expressed concern over what it viewed as the latest threat by Venezuela to annex its territory ...