Construction of the West Demerara Shore Base (WDSB) will begin later this year and will be completed by the end of 2023, the investor company Tristar said in a statement Friday. The company, head by Krishna Persaud – a Guyanese real estate developer who invested in the U.S. stock market – said it has received…
Hours after the Guyana Elections Commission by a majority vote terminated the contracts of the body’s Chief Election Officer, Mr. Keith Lowenfield, Deputy Chief Election Officer, Ms. Roxanne Myers and the Region 4 Returning Officer for General and Regional Elections 2020, Mr. Clairmont Mingo, GECOM Chair, Justice Claudette Singh explained that the terminations were provided…
–with activation of country’s first-ever Law Reform Commission GUYANA has moved one step closer to addressing its archaic legal infrastructure, with the swearing-in of persons to the country’s first-ever Law Reform Commission (LRC), on Wednesday. The activation of this commission through the swearing-in of the commissioners, paves the way for incremental legislative amendments to be…
Workplace discrimination against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) people is prevalent and as such, amendments to the 1997 Prevention of Discrimination Act is necessary to provide legal protection. This is according to Joel Simpson, Managing Director of Guyana’s Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD). Simpson, during an interview with the News Room on…
With cross-dressing officially removed as a criminal offence in Guyana, the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination(SASOD) is pleased with the recognition of the ruling that was handed down by the Caribbean Court of Justice three years ago. In a statement, SASOD emphasized that there are still gaps in local laws that legislators need to fill…
KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Head coach Phil Simmons has expressed concern about the match fitness of the West Indies squad, just four days ahead of the opening Test against Pakistan at Sabina Park here. Since the two-Test series against South Africa ended in late June, the majority of the Test players have been largely dormant,…
After six hours of passionate debate, the National Assembly passed a motion to adopt and implement the recommendations from the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) report into the assassination of Dr. Walter Rodney. The motion, which was moved by Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira, drew 12 speakers: three from the government side of…
The move by the management of the Linden Hospital to lock the gates on all unvaccinated staff members resulted in work in the hospital’s emergency unit and operating theater grinding to a halt. Nurses, Doctors and other staffers who are unvaccinated were denied entry into the hospital’s compound this morning. They were told that they…
–as President Ali orders reduction in freight charges to pre-pandemic levels IN direct response to increasing commodity prices fuelled by the pandemic-induced astronomical shipping costs, President, Dr. Irfaan Ali, has ordered that freight charges be adjusted to pre-pandemic levels, that is, rates charged before March 2020, effective August 1, 2021. The ultimate result of this…
Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sergeant Keyon King on Tuesday afternoon reversed his plead to the court in the multi-million-dollar gold heist at Wallison Enterprise at Gordon Street, Kitty, last week. On Tuesday morning, he pleaded guilty and was due to be sentenced in the afternoon. When the court was called to order in the afternoon,…
