President David Granger has extended “heartfelt condolences” at the passing of former Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Mr. Francis Vibert DeSouza. Mr. DeSouza, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 73, became Guyana’s first Minister of Amerindian Affairs in 1992. According to the Department of Public Information (DPI), Mr. DeSouza died at this home…
The death of an 11-year-old boy in a mining pit is being investigated by the Police, the Natural Resources Ministry and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission. The lifeless body of Tyrone Tyrel DeSouza was pulled from a collapsed mining pit in the Fish Creek Backdam area in the North West District on Wednesday. The…
Police are investigating the death of an 11-year-old, who was killed after a mining pit collapsed at Creek Backdam, North West District, Region One at about 22:30hrs on Thursday, December 27. Police said Tyrone Tyrel DeSouza, a school drop-out, along with nine others, entered the Mining Operation owned by Terrence Yarde at about 6:00hrs. Police…
The largest partner in the coalition government, the People’s National Congress Reform, today accused the Opposition of colluding with Trinidadian Forces and others to successfully bribe a Member of Parliament on the Government side to vote in favour of the no-confidence motion. PNCR Executive Member Aubrey Norton led a press conference hosted by his party…
Former heavyweight of the now Opposition People’s Progress Party (PPP) Ralph Ramkarran says for Guyana’s divisions to end, all major political forces need to form the government and not have one party hold the executive. “I passionately believe…that the way forward for Guyana and a way which has been charted since the 1950s is that…
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo wants the coalition government to resign from office now and not continue being in office as if its business as usual. He said the coalition government lost the no confidence vote in the National Assembly and therefore needs to follow the Constitution and resign from office. He said if there is…
Dear Editor I am shocked that Mr. Kamal Ramkarran, head of the Guyana Bar Association, wants the Speaker to accept the vote on the no confidence motion as fulfilment of requirements in our Constitution to remove an elected government from office. Clearly, the Bar is trying to stymie the Speaker from revisiting and interpreting the
A five-pound baby boy, born at 03:45hrs on Christmas Day, is the lone East Berbice Corentyne Christmas baby. The baby was born to 18-year-old Hansranie Latchana of Belvedere, Berbice and her husband, a cane harvester, Azim Ali, also 18. The baby is the first for the couple and was delivered at the New Amsterdam Hospital.…
The Bar Council of the Bar Association of Guyana has rubbished the opinion being put forward by prominent Attorney, Nigel Hughes, that the no-confidence motion was not properly passed. In its statement, the Association said it rejects Hughes’ contentions as erroneous. The Bar Association is headed by Attorney, Kamal Ramkarran. “The Bar Council has noted…
Twenty-year-old Reoul Drepal-Saul died at the New Amsterdam Hospital early Wednesday morning after the car he was driving crashed into an abandoned refrigerator on the #59 Public Road, Corentyne Berbice at around 06:40hrs. Another occupant of the car, 18-year-old Akesha Beaton is in a serious condition, Police Headquarters said in a statement. They are both…
