Politics

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who convinced Guyana’s then People’s National Congress (PNC)-led administration to agree to major electoral reforms, has entered hospice care, instead of seeking more medical treatment. After a series of short hospital stays, the statement said, Carter “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical ...

Surinamese authorities on Friday imposed a 6 PM to 6 AM curfew in the capital, Paramaribo, where thousands of persons poured out on the streets earlier in the day to protest spiralling cost of living, authorities said. “Due to the situation in the country, the community is urged to avoid the inner city and busy locations. The units patrol the city ...

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paramaribo, Suriname, storming the National Assembly building and looting businesses as pressure mounted on the government in the wake of rising prices for fuel and general cost of living. The protesters are demanding that President Chandrikapersad Santokhi and Vice President Ronnie Brunswijk resign because they have presided over an International Monetary Fund ...

Guyanese in the 70 neighbourhoods and 10 towns will go to the polls on June 12 to elect new councillors, despite opposition concerns that a several constituency boundaries have been changed to give the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) an advantage. Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall  has written to the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Retired Justice Claudette Singh, ...

Hours after Guyanese police issued wanted bulletins for 12 persons accused of terrorism at the Mon Repos market last year during a protest against a police killing, Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Wednesday night said they were “innocent” and he vowed to resist prosecutions. In relating the police action to the gathering, he said they were “innocent people who participated ...

The Guyana government on Wednesday publicly protested American Airlines’ shabby treatment of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Keith Rowley and the St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves as they prepared to depart Guyana earlier in the day. The Foreign Affairs Ministry accused American Airlines of refusing to allow the Prime Ministers’ check-in through ...

Guyanese police on Wednesday issued a wanted bulletin for at least 12 persons for terrorism allegedly unleashed on stallholders and other persons at the Mon Repos market area almost one year ago by persons who had marched from Golden Grove to protest the police killing of a youth from their village. “Terror and mayhem were unleashed on persons on the ...

A man was burnt to death and the building that housed three entities at Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara was destroyed by fire, authorities said. Police identified the dead man as 60-year old Rajendra Mohabir. The building, at Lot 194 7th Street, housed the dwelling, a supermarket and “Touching Your World Ministry” church. The late Mohabir occupied the building with ...

Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian Ganesh Mahipaul on Friday said his then governing coalition and ExxonMobil never agreed that the US$160 million that would be spent on building a new headquarters building at Ogle, East Coast Demerara would be recovered from oil revenues. “I’m guided that there were discussions and there was no agreement with ...

Even as the National Assembly awaits replies from Natural Minister Vickram Bharrat to an opposition coalition question in the National Assembly about who would be paying for ExxonMobil’s just under US$160 million new headquarters at Ogle and how spending on the project is being monitored, a top company official on Thursday said both major political parties were aware of the ...