Last Updated on Monday, 6 April 2026, 21:50 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Monday said the establishment of Guyana’s newly established Border Patrol Units (BPU) was not being done at the expense of the Guyana D
Last Updated on Monday, 6 April 2026, 21:08 by Denis Chabrol Police Commissioner, Clifton Hicken on Monday instructed an internal probe into an alleged confrontation between an off-duty Assistant Superintendent of Police
Last Updated on Monday, 6 April 2026, 18:23 by Denis Chabrol As a fourth lawyer and the University of Excellence, Management and Business Inc (UEMBI) parted ways, the President of that privately-owned institution, Stanle
Last Updated on Monday, 6 April 2026, 17:03 by Denis Chabrol Guyana has secured third place in the latest assessments under the European Union (EU)-backed Seaport Cooperation Project’s (SEACOP) Joint Maritime Control Uni
Last Updated on Sunday, 5 April 2026, 22:16 by Denis Chabrol Chairman of the Shipping Association of Guyana (SAG), Komal Singh has rejected Suriname’s proposal that Guyana should apply for additional cargo vessels to be
Last Updated on Sunday, 5 April 2026, 21:22 by Denis Chabrol A 26-year old woman on Sunday allegedly killed her seven-year old daughter by suffocation and attempted to kill her 1 year, 9- month-old son by the same means
Last Updated on Sunday, 5 April 2026, 17:50 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Sunday and the Chairman of the 15-nation Caribbean Community, St Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister Terrance Drew on Sunday joined the res
Last Updated on Sunday, 5 April 2026, 17:30 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali says a 20-ton refrigerator will be purchased and sent to the Rupununi to preserve large quantities of fruits, vegetables and meat for tran
Last Updated on Saturday, 4 April 2026, 20:18 by Denis Chabrol Former Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Roderick Rainford died on Saturday. He was 85 years.
Last Updated on Saturday, 4 April 2026, 7:23 by Denis Chabrol By GHK Lall On April Fool’s Day, right here on Demerara Waves, (“Guyana must get real with Surinam, no pushover anymore”) I called for the Guyana Government t
Last Updated on Friday, 3 April 2026, 22:05 by Denis Chabrol In what appeared on Friday to be intensified pressure on the Suriname government to stop charging Guyanese cargo vessels to use the Corentyne River, the George
Last Updated on Friday, 3 April 2026, 20:48 by Denis Chabrol Despite promises by the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) to replace the more than 100-year old pipes on Church Street, that state-owned company continues to spe
Last Updated on Friday, 3 April 2026, 20:10 by Denis Chabrol Veteran Guyanese theatre producer/ director, Gem Madhoo-Nascimento on Friday lamented the absence of a theater production from the series of events planned for
Last Updated on Friday, 3 April 2026, 20:15 by Denis Chabrol Veteran Guyanese theatre producer/ director, Gem Madhoo-Nascimento on Friday lamented the absence of a theater production from the series of events planned for
Last Updated on Friday, 3 April 2026, 7:56 by Denis Chabrol By GHK Lall The headline fairly screamed: “Guyana secretly paid US$$80M to Wales gas plant contractor after losing arbitration (KN April, 3, 2026).
Last Updated on Friday, 3 April 2026, 7:35 by Denis Chabrol By GHK Lall It is said that nobody can keep a good man down. Yonette Cummings-Edwards just proved that that applies to a good woman, as well.
Last Updated on Thursday, 2 April 2026, 22:20 by Denis Chabrol Two residents of Prospect, East Bank Demerara early Thursday morning lost their lives when the speeding car in which they were travelling collided head-on in
Last Updated on Thursday, 2 April 2026, 21:56 by Denis Chabrol The Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday said it was investigating the falsification of medical certificates submitted by applicants for tint waivers, and wa
Last Updated on Thursday, 2 April 2026, 21:41 by Denis Chabrol Guyana recorded a more than 17 percent increase in visitors during January 2026, Tourism Minister Susan Rodrigues said Thursday as she wooed overseas-based G
Last Updated on Thursday, 2 April 2026, 11:38 by Denis Chabrol Press Release from the office of the Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands Her Excellency the Governor, Dileeni Daniel-Selvaratnam is pleased to announce
Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 23:11 by Denis Chabrol The Iwokrama International Centre on Wednesday strongly condemned the actions of a group of passersby who were recently observed allegedly physically harass
Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 17:42 by Denis Chabrol Despite rising prices of fertiliser, fuel and freight globally due to the raging United States-Iran war, the American-owned National Milling Company (NAMILC
Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 15:18 by Denis Chabrol Acting Fire Chief, Gregory Wickham said he remained ready to continue serving as Chief Fire Officer, though he has long past retirement age and has been ret
Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 12:33 by Denis Chabrol Two firemen are the subject of criminal and departmental investigations after they were accused of stealing a laptop from a fire scene recently on Quamina S
Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 7:09 by Denis Chabrol By Ron Cheong CARICOM began as an ambitious project rooted in regional unity, resilience to external shocks and climate change, integrated economic developme
Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 6:48 by Denis Chabrol By GHK Lall The Guyana Government, Guyanese leaders, and the Guyanese people had better come quickly to their senses about Surinam.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 6:42 by Denis Chabrol By Sharmini Rampersaud Guyana is an ally of the United States with an asymmetrical interdependence relationship.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 6:29 by Denis Chabrol Guyana is among several Caribbean countries that is part of a regional drone network that shares information simultaneously among participating nations, the
Last Updated on Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 0:04 by Denis Chabrol The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) Tuesday night warned Guyanese to brace themselves for potentially “significant flooding” due to heavy rainfall expected fr
Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 March 2026, 23:45 by Denis Chabrol The Digital Identity Card Act (DICA) came into operation on Tuesday, more than two years after that legislation was passed, but the related 2023 Data Protect
Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 March 2026, 23:19 by Denis Chabrol The Georgetown City Council is definitely preparing to take ratepayers to court to recoup some of the billions of dollars owed to the municipal government, a
Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 March 2026, 20:42 by Denis Chabrol A fire of unknown origin destroyed a multi-storey wooden and concrete building on Fifth Street, Alberttown, Georgetown, leaving at least 40 persons homeless.
Last Updated on Monday, 30 March 2026, 21:44 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) on Monday said it would appeal a High Court decision that found that that financial institution wrongfully close
Last Updated on Monday, 30 March 2026, 20:37 by Denis Chabrol The High Court on Monday ruled that the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) wrongfully closed the bank accounts of four members of We Invest in Nationho
Last Updated on Monday, 30 March 2026, 17:17 by Denis Chabrol The University of Guyana (UG) on Monday said its new Regional Pre-Medical Programme is scheduled to commence across all ten administrative regions during the
Last Updated on Monday, 30 March 2026, 10:25 by Denis Chabrol United States (US) Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole Theriot says the extradition request for city billionaire gold dealers Azruddin Mohamed and Nazar “Shell” Moha
Last Updated on Monday, 30 March 2026, 10:24 by Denis Chabrol The United States (US) plans to bring Guyana and Venezuela together to negotiate the delimitation of their maritime boundary after the International Court of
Last Updated on Monday, 30 March 2026, 10:24 by Denis Chabrol The United States (US) is pushing for a Double Taxation Treaty with Guyana to avoid American businesses from paying taxes in both countries, US Ambassador Nic
Last Updated on Sunday, 29 March 2026, 22:53 by Denis Chabrol Guyana and Belize will over the next five years embark on several initiatives to jointly conserve their forests explore ways of selling carbon credits, accord
Last Updated on Sunday, 29 March 2026, 21:41 by Denis Chabrol ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, March 29 (Reuters) – A Russian tanker full of crude oil has entered Cuban waters and was expected to reach port on Monday, possibly gran
Last Updated on Sunday, 29 March 2026, 17:51 by Denis Chabrol By GHK Lall Guyanese should know something about addicts by now. Unfortunately, they number so many, it’s easy to notice a primary behavior.
Last Updated on Sunday, 29 March 2026, 17:29 by Denis Chabrol KINGSTON, Jamaica, Mar 29, CMC – A former assistant secretary general (ASG) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM),Joseph Cox is raising questions regarding the
Last Updated on Sunday, 29 March 2026, 8:09 by Denis Chabrol A 19-year old woman is dead after the bus she was travelling toppled several times at Moblissa, Linden-Soesdyke Highway on Saturday morning, police said Sunday
Last Updated on Sunday, 29 March 2026, 7:56 by Denis Chabrol The body of a male, believed to be that of a teenager, has been found in the Demerara River at the back of the Georgetown Marriott, Kingston, police said Sunda
Last Updated on Saturday, 28 March 2026, 18:52 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has lifted the suspension of Air Services Limited’s (ASL) flights to Matthews Ridge, North West District but the
Last Updated on Saturday, 28 March 2026, 15:26 by Denis Chabrol Excessive overnight rainfall beyond the capacity, combined with other reasons, caused severe flooding in several areas of Georgetown on Saturday, City Engin
Last Updated on Friday, 27 March 2026, 22:17 by Denis Chabrol Central government has taken control of the unoccupied and virtually dilapidated building on Water Street, Georgetown that once housed the City Constabulary T
Last Updated on Friday, 27 March 2026, 20:02 by Denis Chabrol Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General, Dr Carla Barnett Friday afternoon deflected mounting concerns about her appointment for a second term, just h
Last Updated on Friday, 27 March 2026, 14:59 by Denis Chabrol Four Brazilians on Friday pleaded guilty to illegally entering Guyana and illegal mining. The quartet was fined and ordered to leave Guyana in 24 hours.
Last Updated on Friday, 27 March 2026, 14:18 by Denis Chabrol High Court Judge, Fidela Corbin-Lincoln on Friday blocked the privately-owned University of Excellence, Management and Business Inc (UEMBI) from engaging in a
Last Updated on Friday, 27 March 2026, 13:35 by Denis Chabrol Suriname is maintaining that it has a legal right to charge vessels money to travel on its waters, and says that Guyana is free to ask for an extension of the
Last Updated on Friday, 27 March 2026, 10:51 by Denis Chabrol The 30-year old man from South Haslington died, while in police custody, from peritonintis, according to a post mortem conducted Friday.
Last Updated on Friday, 27 March 2026, 10:23 by Denis Chabrol Director General of Guyana’s Civil Defence Commission (CDC), Colonel Nazrul Hussain has received the Inter-American Defence Board (IADB) medal after the 84th
Last Updated on Friday, 27 March 2026, 9:27 by Denis Chabrol Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh on Friday said that everyone, who registered face-to-face for the first GY$100,000 cash grant, must now register Online.
Last Updated on Friday, 27 March 2026, 7:49 by Denis Chabrol A 16-year old boy was among four persons arrested for allegedly stealing GY$7 million from a Chinese businesswoman while she was supervising the offloading of
Last Updated on Friday, 27 March 2026, 6:42 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has justified the grounding of Air Services Limited’s (ASL) flights to Matthews Ridge, North West District (NWD) aft
Last Updated on Friday, 27 March 2026, 6:03 by Denis Chabrol Reproduced from The Conversation by Quynh Hoang, Lecturer in Marketing and Consumption, Department of Marketing and Strategy, University of Leicester A Los Ang
By Nigel Westmaas Extensive historical research, including the Slave Voyages Database, estimates that approximately 30, 745 slave vessels transported shackled enslaved Africans to the Caribbean and the Americas over the
Last Updated on Thursday, 26 March 2026, 18:17 by Denis Chabrol As government moves into the second phase of distribution of the National GY$100,000 cash grant as promised by President Irfaan Ali, Finance Minister Dr.
Last Updated on Thursday, 26 March 2026, 16:37 by Denis Chabrol The re-naming of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, situated on the corner of Lance Gibbs and Oronoque Streets, Queenstown, to The Waveney Benjamin Building,
Last Updated on Thursday, 26 March 2026, 15:44 by Denis Chabrol Reproduced from The Conversation by Adi Imsirovic Lecturer in Energy Systems, University of Oxford Despite reports of negotiations between the US and the Ir
Last Updated on Thursday, 26 March 2026, 15:39 by Denis Chabrol The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Thursday indicated that it believed that the main opposition We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) should be represented on the sev
Last Updated on Thursday, 26 March 2026, 14:42 by Denis Chabrol Two members of the Guyana Police Force are in close arrest following the death of a 30-year old man while in custody at the Cove and John Police Station, Ea
Last Updated on Thursday, 26 March 2026, 13:12 by Denis Chabrol A legal showdown has begun between Critchlow Labour College Inc (CLCI) and University of Excellence, Management and Business Inc (UEMBI) over whether a leas
Last Updated on Thursday, 26 March 2026, 8:10 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Thursday said his administration has formally protested Suriname’s charging fees for the use of the bordering Corentyne River.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 22:28 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has launched an investigation into an accident involving two planes belonging to the same domestic airline at th
Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 22:00 by Denis Chabrol The new logistics and off-site commercial customs facilities at the Guyana branch of the Florida, United States-headquartered freight forwarding company, P
Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 16:15 by Denis Chabrol By Ron Cheong It has been reported that: CARICOM governments are preparing to send humanitarian aid to Cuba following a decision announced by chairman Dr.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 16:00 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said Guyana would be sending a huge consignment of rice to Cuba as part of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) humanitari
Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 15:31 by Denis Chabrol The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday said in a judgement that the doctrine of a process contract should be recognised in Guyana and may arise
Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 11:24 by Denis Chabrol The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday set April 21 to hear an application by city businessmen Azruddin Mohamed and Nazar Mohamed to appeal a de
Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 11:51 by Denis Chabrol The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday granted an interim stay of the extradition commital proceedings involving city businessmen Azruddin Moham
Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 9:59 by Denis Chabrol The United Kingdom (UK) has appointed a new High Commissioner to Guyana and he would also be his country’s non-resident ambassador to Suriname and the Carib
Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 March 2026, 17:25 by Denis Chabrol Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member nations have begun pooling cash to send to Mexico to buy a variety of supplies for shipment to Cuba, the Guyana-based re
Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 March 2026, 13:36 by Denis Chabrol The prosecution for the United States in the extradition commital hearing on Tuesday failed to convince Principal Magistrate,Judy Latchman to order a second
Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 March 2026, 9:31 by Denis Chabrol City businessman, Azruddin Mohamed , who is facing extradition committal proceedings, could not attend court on Tuesday morning because he has dengue fever an
Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 March 2026, 8:27 by Denis Chabrol By R. Evan Ellis, Specialist in U.S. security and U.S.–Latin America relations (first published in Legado a las Américas) In this analysis, R.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 March 2026, 8:18 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Monday defended the decision by commercial banks to deduct a transfer fee from the GY$100,000 cash grant that is being deposited into
Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 March 2026, 6:53 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed was the subject of a verbal swipe by President Irfaan Ali over the embattled businessman’s decision to turn up at Attorney