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Two weeks after the opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance F0r Change (APNU+AFC) returned from an outreach to the Rupununi and raised concerns about a severe water shortage, President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that government was rushing large quantities of cassava to the drought-stricken region. “We brought in 500,000 pounds of cassava . It went to Deep ...

Two Venezuelans were Friday arrested in a go-fast boat with more than 1,000 pounds of cocaine and a large quantity of fuel at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo, in a joint operation by the the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), an official said Saturday. Director of CANU, James Singh said one of the Venezuelans is believed to ...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) and the Guyana government on Thursday remained at loggerheads over the basis for several questions about corruption and governance, with the UN body saying its sources were “credible” and the administration maintaining that it was more about what was “verifiable and factual.” “We made it very clear with the delegation that when we ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday announced that a Commission of Inquiry (COI) into extrajudicial killings between 2002 and 2006 that had been promised by the then coalition administration would be held. “The government will be going ahead with this COI because the UN wants it, Granger wanted it and I hope that there will be no prevarication anymore. There ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday accused the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration of failing to pay healthcare workers more but was preparing to hire Bangladeshis and other foreign healthcare workers at higher salaries, but Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said they would be paid the same as Guyanese. “You cannot bring Bangladeshis, bring whoever you want to bring and ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday confirmed that Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Major Crimes Unit, Superintendent Mitchell Caesar was detained by United States law enforcement agents at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. “From what I gather, a report was made to the superior officer or the senior officer of that policeman so that will engage the ...

Internationally recognised Guyanese and Caribbean jurist, Retired Justice Desiree Bernard died on Thursday morning peacefully in her sleep at her residence in Trinidad, her daughter, Carol Bernard, said. She turned 85 years old on 2nd March, 2023. “She went just as she lived—peacefully,” her daughter told Demerara Waves Online News. The late Ms Bernard began her legal career in 1964 ...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) on Thursday asked Guyana to take steps to stamp out corruption especially in law enforcement agencies, public procurement and the oil sector as a matter of priority and ensure that all anti-corruption bodies are truly independent “The Committee urges the State party to adopt concrete measures to address the root causes of corruption ...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) on Thursday said it was concerned by reports of extra-judicial killings in Guyana including by the police force and that virtually nothing has been done to probe such deaths during a five-year long violent crime spree. “The Committee is concerned that the alleged extrajudicial killings that occurred between 2002 and 2006 have not ...

The three Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldiers, who were struck down by a truck on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway while on an annual 30 kilometre walk, were wearing dark clothing in the dark thoroughfare, the driver told police investigators. “The lorry driver alleges that he was proceeding South along the eastern side of Madewini Road when he suddenly saw three persons ...