Dear Editor, I AM in a place where I have the opportunity to read the many reviews, letters and editorials appearing in the Guyana Mass Media. Guyanese are now saturated or rather I should say, infested by a new breed of experts in the Constitution, oil, gas and governance. It is clear that these persons
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday issued a strong public warning to international donors against releasing monies to the interim Government, noting that there will be consequences for the repayment of such funds. Speaking at his weekly press conference on Thursday, Jagdeo referred to the US $2,251,880 contract signed by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure…
Two Guyanese are among three persons who have been indicted in the US in a multi-million US dollar Medicaid fraud. The three Sean Ally, Shamiza Ally and Lisette Joza are accused by the New York Attorney General of stealing over $1 million from the New York Medicaid programme by billing fake transportation services that were…
…GECOM extends timeframe in keeping with elections date -PPP objects, commission to meet again on Friday THE Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has set a 42-day timeline for the conducting of claims and objections, as opposed to the 35-day period which the commission had recently agreed to. Government-appointed GECOM Commissioner, Vincent Alexander, said the decision to
Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Karen Cummings on Wednesday dismissed statements made by the international community on Guyana’s constitutional and political situation, saying that all the “agitation” is uncalled for. “I don’t think we need sanctions at this point in time,” she said Wednesday at a press conference at her Takuba Lodge, Georgetown office. The…
Opposition nominated Commissioner of the Guyana Elections Commission, Bibi Shadick is now accusing the Elections Commission Chairman, Justice Claudette Singh of bias and aligning her decisions and views with the position of the Government nominated members of the Commission. Shadick made her position known to the media this afternoon after the statutory meeting of the…
Police at Charity on the Essequibo Coast have arrested a suspected bandit following a robbery in which a young woman was shot on Monday night. Reports are that 18-year-old Feida Mohamed of Charity Public Road, Pomeroon is currently hospitalised in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Suddie Public Hospital nursing a gunshot injury to
Two men on Tuesday confessed to the murders of Constance Fraser, 89, and Phylis Caesar, 77, who were found dead on October 3, 2017, at their South Road and Albert Street home in Georgetown. Imran Khan also known as ‘Christopher Khan’ and ‘Paul Chris’, 27 and Steven Andrews, 28, appeared before High Court Judge Justice…
President David Granger has issued the proclamations for the regional and general elections to be held on the 2nd March 2020. The proclamations serve as the official notification of the date of the elections. In a midnight statement, the Ministry of the President announced that the President, by the power vested in him by Article…
…raked in over $50M in gov’t ads for 2019 …had refused state advertising over debts STABROEK News has received more than $50M in payments for ads from the Department of Public Information (DPI) thus far for 2019, far in excess of even the state owned Guyana Chronicle. The DPI made the disclosure on Sunday, in
