Politics

The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) on Thursday said it was concerned by reports of extra-judicial killings in Guyana including by the police force and that virtually nothing has been done to probe such deaths during a five-year long violent crime spree. “The Committee is concerned that the alleged extrajudicial killings that occurred between 2002 and 2006 have not ...

Guyana’s Attorney General, Anil Nandlall on Tuesday urged members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to condemn the Venezuelan government’s violation of international law by most recently passing a law to incorporate Essequibo as part of its territory. “While time will not permit us at this conference to collectively condemn the actions of Venezuela, there is still much to be done. ...

The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Tuesday confirmed that an outbreak of chicken pox at the Lusignan Prison has afflicted 53 prisoners at that East Coast Demerara penal institution, but denied claims by the opposition coalition that nothing was being done to prevent the disease from spreading. The Health Ministry, in confirming that there were 25 active cases of chickenpox ...

Guyanese who would like to visit European Union (EU) member-nations would from next year no longer have to travel to Suriname to obtain Schengen visas, as France would be doing so in 2025 when it opens an embassy in Georgetown, Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd said Saturday. Mr Todd said France’s decision to establish a full-fledged diplomatic presence here was ...

Opposition shadow Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Roysdale Forde has recommended broad-based national dialogue on  Guyana’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, in the wake of the Venezuela’s government’s passage of a law to make Essequibo a Venezuelan state. “In response to these challenging times, I urge the President of Guyana, Mr. Irfaan Ali, to exercise decisive leadership by convening ...

A Guyana-backed motion at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly on the absence of parliamentary democracy in Venezuela was defeated on Saturday after objections by Cuba and Ecuador. Prior to the vote on the motion, Speaker of Guyana’s National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir said Venezuela was not represented at the March 23- 27 event in Geneva, Switzerland because of a “lack of ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd on Monday confirmed that government has given approval to a private company to hire health care workers, and said that the company could now do so from any other country not just Bangladesh. “They have amended that…It can be Latin America and the Caribbean, it could be Asia. It is broad now so they are ...

The leaders of Guyana and Suriname have decided that ministers from both neighbouring South American nations would have to hold further talks on key issues for the construction of a US$300 million bridge across the Corentyne River. Major decisions were take by President Irfaan Ali and his Surinamese counterpart, Chandrikapersad Santokhi in talks held at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara on ...

New York-based opposition activist, Rickford Burke has asked the High Court to quash the serving of a Guyana Magistrates court summons to him in New York by a Guyanese policeman, according to court documents. He wants a declaration that the purported service by Rodwell Sarabo an officer of the Guyana Police Force, in Brooklyn “is a nullity, without and in ...

Even as the opposition parliamentary coalition accused the Guyana government’s of double standards in dealing with Haitians in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Friday said the smuggling of Haitians to this country had a knock-on effect on other territories in the Americas. Mr Benn sought to assure that migrants facing difficulties would not be blocked ...