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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Thursday urged the Guyanese Parliament to amend its drafted Cybercrime Bill, which could have a damaging effect on press freedom. On June 7, RSF sent a letter to Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo outlining its concerns with the legislation. While the Guyanese government has a legitimate interest in regulating the internet to ensure certain criminal activity—such ...

An East Berbice man killed his wife and daughter before committing suicide probably because he suspected that his wife was in a relationship with another man, the surviving 11-year old son suggested to police. Forty-one year old Jainraine “Rado” Seetaram of  1078 Glasgow Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice  bludgeoned and stabbed his wife, 38-year old Binowattie Seetaram and daughter 20-year ...

A man, who stabbed his wife and daughter to death at their East Berbice home, was later found hanging from a rope at an abandoned house, villagers and police sources said. The body of the man, whose only name given was ‘Rado’, was found hanging below a house located a short distance away from his residence at Glasgow, East Bank ...

President David Granger on Wednesday refused to back down from his preference for overseas-based Justice Kenneth Benjamin to be appointed Chancellor of the Judiciary, in the face of intensified calls for the acting Chancellor and Chief Justice to be confirmed. “That is well-known, that is well-known. I took my time in making that decision and I am not prepared to ...

As a government-appointed interim management committee of the Guyana Public Service Cooperative Credit Union (GPSCCU) seeks to unearth how millions of dollars have been spent, most of the ousted committee members have been booked to travel to Trinidad for a conference. Though airline tickets were purchased for seven of the eight now former committee members before government moved in late ...

Venezuela has announced that it will be going to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, along with representatives of Guyana regarding the border controversy over the Essequibo region of Guyana, over which Venezuela claims sovereignty. Venezuela’s Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs said its decision to participate in the ICJ court proceedings followed an ICJ communication it received on June 4, ...

Just in case you did not know, local content from the oil and gas sector does not only include big, sophisticated and high-tech goods and services or high-paying jobs. Trinidad and Tobago Geophysicist, Anthony Paul, who has been advising Guyana on developing its Local Content Policy, said as far back as 2011 that local content is “income received by locals, ...

A meeting of the seven-member Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Tuesday collapsed after People’s Progressive Party (PPP) representative, Robeson Benn and GECOM Chairman, James Patterson clashed over the racial composition of the election management authority’s staff. Patterson objected to Benn’s public statement last month that about 90 percent of GECOM’s staff are Afro-Guyanese, a situation he said was either racist or ...

At least 125 of the 300 BEV shrimp processing workers, who will be laid off next month, are likely to be employed by another seafood production company, Head of BEV Processors Inc; Bruce Vieria said Tuesday. He said if Noble House Seafoods purchases  BEV’s plant and acquires trawlers owned by other persons or gets guaranteed shrimp supplies, that company would need ...

Reproduced from Barbados Nation by Sherrlyn Toppin MY MID-JUNE, the schooner Ruth should be making its maiden voyage to Guyana to purchase the first set of produce and possibly seafood for sale on the local market. For almost a decade, the massive vessel was a landmark behind the old fish market on Bay Street, St Michael. “Ruth is in the ...