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In the wake of a formal request by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for the Guyana government to address security and environmental complaints by Indigenous Caribs stemming from gold mining at Chinese Landing, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said a broad-based team of government officials would be dispatched to the area. “We intend to respect the ruling ...

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said his political organisation might have received funds from the Mohameds who have been named as subjects of a United States (US) investigation into transnational crimes, but Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton opted to account only for his tenure. “They may have received. ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday weighed in on the police investigation into former government minister and serving opposition parliamentarian David Patterson’s alleged exposure of his genitals and other offences. Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Assistant Commissioner Wendell Blanhum  told Demerara Waves Online News the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) ...

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Today, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) denied special leave in the Guyanese case of Sherwin Harte and Deon  Greenidge v The State  in which Greenidge sought permission to appeal his conviction and both Harte and Greenidge sought permission to appeal the sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal upon them and to challenge ...

An American pastor has come out in defence of Guyanese Indian cultural activist, Joel Ghansham, who apparently angered an American Airlines cabin attendant by describing him as a “waiter” and forced the Guyana-bound flight to return to the United States. “In my evaluation Mr. Ghansham was discriminated against due to his alternative lifestyle, manner of dress, and characteristics,” Pastor Brian ...

The Canadian High Commission is preparing to move out from its decades-long location at Young and High Streets, Kingston to the Pegasus Corporate Centre but an official said on Wednesday no date has been set. A Canadian High Commission spokeswoman said the colonial era wooden building was no longer safe for use. “We have relocated out of the main chancery ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has appealed to the Guyana Police Force to submit information on noise nuisance complaints as the two agencies team up in their fight against that problem. EPA Environmental Officer, Ladonna Kissoon told a recently-held symposium for senior police officers that her agency needed such monthly noise nuisance complaints records for  use by a Technical Working ...

Guyana’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) would be licensing more passenger boats to ply the Wales- Diamond route depending on demand for the service after the Demerara Harbour Bridge resumes operation, the agency’s Director-General Stephen Thomas said Wednesday. In preparation for major repairs to the bridge this week, government upgraded the foot-paths and constructed new, sturdy boat landings at Wales, West Bank ...

The High Court on Tuesday ordered that three members of the Guyana Public Service Cooperative Credit Union (GPSCCU) cease to be members of the Committee of Management and that they be replaced by three others who had previously won a case. Attorney-at-Law Roysdale Forde said Justice Navindra Singh ruled that Ms Karen Van Sluytman-Corbin, Ms Gillian Pollard Ms Ruth Howard ...

The design of the new Demerara River Bridge is yet to be approved, a Ministry of Public Works Engineer told a stakeholder meeting primarily with nearby East Bank Demerara residents who complained bitterly that they did not get proper answers to their questions. Engineer Siddiq Khan told the consultation at the Peter’s Hall Primary School that government was getting ongoing ...