People’s National Congress Executive Member and Former Member of Parliament Mervyn Williams today urged Indigenous leaders who are in Georgetown for the National Toshaos Conference to reject what he sees as the government’s apparent attempt to set the agenda for the conference and ultimately determine how the villages should be managed. At an Opposition…
Newly-elected Chairman of the National Toshaos’ Council (NTC) Derrick John has promised that his executive committee will engage in more countrywide outreach activities in a bid to push representation for Guyana’s indigenous people. John, who is also the Toshao of Moraikobai in Region Five (Mahaica- Berbice), acknowledged that there are numerous issues affecting indigenous communities…
A local model who has been pretending to be a medical doctor for a number of years has issued an apology while claiming that in his heart, he still believes that he is a doctor. The young man who presented himself as Dr. Mikhail McKlennon issued an apology on social media today after the Guyana…
A driver managed to evade police ranks in Linden, Region 10 after he threw two pounds of marijuana out the window and abandoned the car (PRR 3003) he was driving. Police Headquarters revealed in a statement that the incident occurred at about 10:00hrs on Tuesday. The driver was intercepted by patrol ranks at Burnham Drive…
Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn, wants the High Court to dismiss the challenge by Opposition Member of Parliament Christopher Jones to the President’s unilateral appointment of Clifton Hicken as the Acting Police Commissioner. Benn who was named as a respondent in the Court action filed his response to the challenge by Jones and is…
– GPF says 17-year-old was alone in cell with lighter when shirt caught fire THE Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is investigating the alleged torture inflicted on a 17-year-old while in custody at the Vigilance Police Station, according to the police force’s Corporate Communications Unit (CCU). According to a release, 17-year-old Johiem Peters, a resident…
GUYANA Defence Force (GDF) Staff Officer One Special Duties Lieutenant-Colonel Eon Murray is among representatives of 18 countries who recently completed a seven-week ‘Managing Defence in the Wider Security Context’ course at the United Kingdom Defence Academy, Shrivenham, UK. The course, designed for senior leadership of militaries and civilians from around the world, covered several…
(Bloomberg) Near the tip of Nigeria’s Bonny Island, an arrowhead speck of land where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Niger Delta, a giant plant last year produced enough liquefied natural gas to heat half the UK for the winter. Most of it was shipped out of the country, with Spain, France and Portugal the biggest…
THREE reprehensible acts in the past week drew much world attention, but attracted very unequal reaction. The first was the assassination of Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving Prime Minister of Japan, while campaigning ahead of last Sunday’s parliamentary elections. Abe was a charismatic politician, shaped both by lineage and his own often-demonstrated willingness to adapt to…
Two children, ages one and six, are among five persons who are hospitalised after two cars collided along the Kuru Kuru, Soesdyke-Linden Highway. Takeal Johnson, 22, Denika Washington, 23, and one-year-old Jaiel Johnson of Half Mile Linden, Region Ten, were travelling in the motor car PYY 6026 on Monday around 07:00h when the accident occurred.…
