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The Guyana government has asked the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IACHR) to withdraw its provisional measures for the Indigenous Indian community of Chinese Landing where residents there had alleged severe physical violence and environmental degradation by a number of gold miners, Minister of  Governance Gail Teixeira said Wednesday. Minister Teixeira said government last December wrote to the IACHR asking for ...

After spending millions of dollars and making representation to the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration for improving the social and economic conditions of people in Linden, opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) parliamentarian Jermaine Figueira is protesting his removal as a shadow minister. In Mr Figueira’s letter to the PNCR’s Central Executive, which was seen by Demerara Waves Online ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Tuesday said Guyana’s court system is expanding its first ever e-filing platform for the filing and management of cases in the magistrate and High Courts. She said the E-Litigation System for the Court of Appeal and the High Court would be ready for a soft-launch of phase one for the Court of Appeal in the ...

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall on Monday expressed concern that magistrates have found reasons not to set trial dates for several then officials of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) who were accused of fraud in the 2020 general and regional elections. “Magistrates after magistrates have found reasons that can’t withstand scrutiny for not proceeding to try ...

The Ghana-headquartered Africa Prosperity Network (APN) has picked President, Dr Irfaan Ali to receive the Global Africa Leadership Award later this month, the Guyanese leader was informed on Tuesday. “On behalf of the Africa Prosperity Network and its partners, I am happy to inform Your Excellency that you have been selected to receive the Global Africa Leadership Award,” APN Executive ...

Legislation to allow for judge-only trials for specified cases is being drafted, even as Guyana prepares to abolish preliminary inquiries for indictable cases in the magistrate court, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said Monday. “There are certain cases where it is now accepted that the interest of justice is not best served where judges must sit with a jury and we ...

The Guyana government has so far spent more than US$2 million on fighting an international arbitration case concerning the previous administration’s decision to halt the implementation of a parking meter system in the capital city, Georgetown, Attorney General  Anil Nandlall said Monday. The then A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC)-led coalition administration had suspended the parking meter system, ...

A regional ferry system may be on the horizon to journey through Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. However, despite reports of a new company being established for this ferry service last week, no company has yet been formed, the Trinidad Guardian reported on Tuesday. Speaking during a signing of the agreement for the construction of a bridge in Guyana ...

President Irfaan Ali on Monday announced, at the sod turning for the new US$28.1 million Brickdam Police Station,  that the Joint Services transport capabilities would be strengthened and integrated. “What we are doing is creating an integrated joint services in terms of its asset positioning and its asset base,” he said. He explained that the helicopter, marine craft and the ...

The U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for the Western Hemisphere at the U.S. Department of Defense, Daniel P. Erikson will travel to Guyana from January 8 – 9, as the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) continues to boost its capacity in the context of regional stability, the American Embassy here said. “It signifies the importance of the bilateral defense ...