Politics

Well-known New York-based Guyanese political activist, Rickford Burke is wanted by Guyanese police for questioning about his alleged role in the publication of defamatory libel in order to extort money, according to a bulletin issued late Thursday hours after he released a statement and a recording of part of a conversation purportedly with a businessman. Police said Mr Burke allegedly ...

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Retired Justice Claudette Singh on Wednesday told Election Commissioners that she has handed over more names of persons who the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) said were either dead or absent from Guyana on voting day- March 2, 2020. “Please be advised that I have dispatched the documents in ...

Two media workers, who police have accused of defamatory libel, were Tuesday charged and and granted GY$100,000 bail each, police said. Alex Wayne,49, of Huntley village, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara and 41-year old Marlon Gary Eleazar of 159 Da Silva Street, Newtown, Georgetown were charged jointly on September 27, 2022 with two counts of conspiracy to commit a felony contrary ...

The then United States (US) Republican-led administration nominee for the Presidency of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Mauricio Claver-Carone,  who had been unequivocally supported by Guyana, has been removed from office, the hemispheric financial institution announced Monday. “The Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), following the unanimous recommendation by the Board of Executive Directors, has resolved that ...

The United States (US) is awaiting key documentation from Guyana before deciding whether to lift the now four-year long ban on catfish, also known locally as gilbaka, American Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch said Monday. “The ball is still in Guyana’s court to finish all the paperwork that’s involved with the exporting,” she told Demerara Waves Online News. She said ...

Outspoken New York-based anti-government activist Rickford Burke on Sunday denied claims by an accused extortionist that he has anything to do with a Faceboo0k page and website styled Guyana News Network on which a number possibly defamatory posts were made. “The people being coerced by the Police to speculate and make these statements live in Guyana. They have never been ...

Suriname’s acting Foreign Minister Krishna Mathoera has summoned Guyana’s Ambassador to that neighbouring country Keith George, telling him that Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo must be cautious about his utterances over an expected grant of 150 Suriname coastal fishing licences. “During this summons, the Vice-President of Guyana was called upon to await diplomatic efforts and to refrain from making any wide-ranging ...

Commissioner of Information Retired Justice Charles Ramson has refused to in the first instance entertain a request by an opposition parliamentarian for the salaries to be paid to the three Commissioners who have been appointed to investigate the March 2020 general and regional elections. While the Access to Information Act, which governs the Commissioner of Information, provides for requests to ...

The usually politically divided Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Tuesday voted for retiree Beverley Critchlow to be the new Assistant Chief Election Officer, despite a suggestion by opposition Election Commissioner Vincent Alexander that the process was “contrived” for her to apply and be considered favourably by the majority of commissioners. Governing People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) Election Commissioner Sase Gunraj ...

Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian Ganesh Mahipaul has asked Guyana’s Commissioner of Information (CoI), Retired Justice Charles Ramson to disclose how much money will be paid to the Commissioners of Inquiry into the 2020 general and regional elections. “I write to you in your capacity as Commissioner of Information to provide me with the salaries ...