Politics

President Irfaan Ali said Tuesday night that nothing in Guyana’s Constitution or laws prohibit him from appointing Assistant Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken as substantive police commissioner although he has reached retirement age of 55 years. “There is no barrier legally or constitutionally from appointing him,” he told Demerara Waves Online News. Told that Mr Hicken has reached retirement age, Dr ...

Several men on Monday remained in custody as police continued their investigation into the abduction of a man outside New Thriving Restaurant, Main Street, Georgetown, late last month. “Those in custody – the police have applied for an extension of their detention which was granted for another 72 hours,” a Guyana Police Force (GPF) spokesman said. Police have been saying ...

Assistant Police Commissioner, Clifton Hicken cannot be promoted to the position of police commissioner because he has already reached retirement age, Human Resources Consultant, Earl John said Monday. “There is no precedent for it in which you could get promoted while you are actually retired,” Mr John told Demerara Waves Online News. He said “there is no case” for a ...

The National Art Gallery (Castellani House) has not had a management committee for more than two years, resulting in approvals being done by the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Charles Ramson in consultation with the curator, officials said Sunday. Mr Ramson did not respond to calls and messages by Demerara Waves Online News but delegated the Director of Culture ...

Well-respected and prominent Guyanese multi-talented artist, Stanley Greaves on Sunday said he has scrapped plans to hold an exhibition of work in the National Gallery of Art (Castellani House) because he would not be asking the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Charles Ramson’s permission due to his behaviour. “My decision is not to have a show, by refusing to ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Saturday said the High Court could soon be asked to rule on the credibility of the voters list and draft legislation would be tabled in the National Assembly to empower the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to clean up that list. “There’s an argument being explored that your right to vote and the significance of ...

President Irfaan Ali seemed set to appoint Assistant Police Commissioner, Clifton Hicken to the substantive position of police commissioner, effectively discarding concerns by Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton about his suitability for the top law enforcement position. Mr Norton told Dr Ali that there should be “continued dialogue on the search for a best-fitted person for the chair of Commissioner of ...

New York-based opposition political activist, Rickford Burke on Friday demanded GY$100 million in compensation from Guyanese city businessman, Roshan Khan, for allegedly libeling him in a Facebook post titled “In the Raw: Submachine Guns everywhere”. Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes demanded from Mr Khan an apology for his September 10, 2024 Facebook post which contains charges of serious libel on Mr Burke ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Suriname’s state-0wned oil company, Staatsolie, has been boasting that his country has clinched a far superior production sharing agreement with TotalEnergies compared to Guyana’s with ExxonMobil and its co-venturers. He said while Guyana has 2 percent royalty and 50 percent profit split and no taxes, Suriname’s agreement provides for 6.25 percent royalty, profit split based ...

Opposition parliamentarian, Jermaine Figueira, who was seen in social media pictures with President Irfaan Ali and former People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) members at the Providence Cricket Stadium on Tuesday, said he remained a member of that party but did not mean that he could not mingle with politicians from across the divide. “I’m a PNC man,” he told Demerara ...