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Heirs of British slaveowner to apologise for slavery, indentureship

The heirs of late British slaveowner, John Gladstone, are to also apologise for both slavery and indentureship, the University of Guyana (UG) said on Thursday. The apology is scheduled to be issued in Friday morning at the University of GGuyan’s launch of Centre of Migration and Diaspora Studies. “The University of Guyana wishes to clarify that the apology it helped ...

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WPA accuses Muslim organisations of using observations to stoke racial divisions with Indo-Guyanese

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Thursday defended the right of a woman at the recently held Cuffy250 forum to characterise the role and status of Muslim women at home and at mosques,and accused two Muslim organisations of creating divisions between the party and Indo-Guyanese. In a joint statement, the Central Islamic Organisation (CIOG) and the Guyana Islamic Trust (GIT) ...

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President justifies hiring contract workers; foreign trade unionists want more oil benefits for workers

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said government has taken a reasonable decision to hire workers on contract, in an apparent strong rebuke of an international trade unionist who advised against the employment of workers contractually. In her feature address to the opening of the 22nd delegates’ congress of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), General Secretary of the ...

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AFC doubles down on oil block licence extensions; Govt insists there is no extension

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Wednesday insisted that the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration granted a second one-year extension due to COVID19 pandemic and failed to conduct an agreed quarterly review, but a top government oil sector policymaker rubbished the claim about an additional extension. “There is absolutely no extension,” the official told Demerara Waves Online News on ...

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Granger extended ExxonMobil’s licences in three blocks due to COVID; AFC confident no COVID-19 impact on oil operations

The ExxonMobil-led consortium of Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) had been granted one-year extensions of its three prospecting licences in the Stabroek, Canje and Kaieteur offshore oil blocks during the latter months of the David Granger-led administration because of the COVID-19 virus, according to letters released on Tuesday by the Ministry of Natural Resources. The almost identical letters ...

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GUYSUCO hopes for managerial support from India, Guatemala

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday announced that talks were underway with India and Guatemala to provide technical managerial support to the State-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO). In his address to the 22nd delegates Congress of  the Guyana Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU), he said the technical support management would be expected to “drive the innovation”, change and survival of the sugar ...

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Police, military leadership provided gov’t wrong intelligence reports on violent crime wave- Jagdeo

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday has accused the military and police hierarchy during the 2002-2008 crime spree of giving the Guyana government wrong intelligence reports. “I sat with Roger, and the leadership of the army and police would bring a report to us about the situation that was taking place on the ground when ordinary people were being slaughtered, ...

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New York-based Guyanese woman allegedly procures Guyana police officer for hit on brother-in-law

Reproduced from Daily Beast A New York bank manager allegedly tried to hire a hitman to kill her brother-in-law, but things were swiftly derailed when the hired gun informed the man—one day prior to when the deed was supposed to be done—that he was the target of an assassination plot. Reshma Massarone, a 39-year-old mother of two, was arrested Monday and ...

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Neil Kumar suffers heart attack

Veteran People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Member, Neend ‘Neil’ Kumar on Tuesday suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), a senior health sector official said. The official said Mr Kumar’s condition was listed as “stable” and he was due to have an angiogram. Mr Kumar was not seen at the service for late Dr ...

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Passengers threaten to sue Caribbean Airlines as flights to Guyana resume; TT court orders pilots to end sick-out

Even as Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) resumed flights on some routes after pilots began trickling back to work following a court order, at least three United States (US)-based Guyanese on Monday said they would sue the carrier for failing to fly them out of Guyana on Sunday after cockpit crews reported sick. Guyana’s Aviation Minister, Juan Edghill said CAL commenced ...

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