(BBC) – The Queen has pulled out of this year’s State Opening of Parliament and the reading of the Queen’s speech, Buckingham Palace has announced. This will be the first time since 1963 that the Queen will have missed this constitutional ceremony, which sets out the government’s legislative plans. Prince Charles will deliver the speech…

A woman from Bartica, Region Seven, is in police custody following allegations that she stabbed her son during an argument on Sunday (Mother’s Day). Police did not name the woman but the son was identified by the police as 21-year-old Keshan Blackman of Fifth Avenue, Bartica. He remains in a critical condition at the Georgetown…

The issue of overpayment to contractors and poor recording keeping by accounting officers under the former APNU+AFC government was once again at the center of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) work on Monday, when the Committee met to scrutinize the spending of Region 8 for several projects in the infrastructure, health and other sectors for…

TERRY Mathura is the lone new face in the Canada Cricket Umpires Association (CCUA). The death of stalwart cricket administrator Jainauth “Vish” Jadunauth meant there was a change in the executive committee, and that change was made during the Annual General Meeting (AGM) last Saturday. Jadunuath, who was the long-serving Treasurer of the CCUA, died…

Two years after the APNU+AFC’s blatant attempt to rig the March 2020 general elections, Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton offered to provide the government with Statements of Poll (SoPs) that would purportedly show a victory for the coalition. The offer was made as Norton engaged Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo in a rare occurrence at the European…

Committee Members of the Guyana Public Service Credit Union are gearing up to elect a new Chairman from among themselves after declaring today that Mr. Trevor Benn who was voted into the position last year, no longer enjoys the confidence of the full membership of the Committee of Management. During a press conference today, the…

WOULD you be surprised to learn that chemicals trigger emotions in your body? Have you ever taken a look at your pattern of behaviour or your pattern of reaction? There is much more going on inside us than we can acknowledge, think about or put into perspective. Sometimes our usual way of dealing with problems…

— to promote development in Guyana; ‘I have to be a Just Leader,’ says President in inaugural programme   By Vishnu Bishram A NEW social media platform in the diaspora debut last Thursday evening to promote development in Guyana. It’s first guest, President Dr Irfaan Ali, was quizzed on a number of issues. A very passionate…

DIGITAL agriculture has great potential to foster the transformation of agrifood systems and promote rural development, QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), emphasised at a recent high-level international conference. The conference, ‘Vision for the future: transition to digital agriculture’, was held in Azerbaijan. “Data, digitalisation and innovation…

— at inaugural World Press Freedom Day Conference (May 3-4, 2022) at Arthur Chung Conference Centre Presentation by Professor Vibert Cambridge I RECOGNISE the graduate students and participants. It is a pleasure to be here today to hit the ground running. I think the bottom line is how you apply the principles of communication for…