Guyana maintains 1899 Arbitral Award remains legally valid as oral arguments begin before International Court

The International Court of Justice early this morning began hearing oral arguments in the case filed by Guyana against Venezuela, challenging Venezuela’s claims over Guyana’s Essequibo region. Guyana’s main legal argument before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is that the land boundary between Guyana and Venezuela was finally and definitively settled by the 1899 […]

Doomed GDF helicopter was in excellent working condition at time of crash; Pilot and Co-pilot lacked instrument rating for helicopter

A draft final report on the deadly helicopter crash that claimed the lives of five Guyana Defence Force servicemen back in December 2023, found that while the helicopter was in “excellent working condition” at the time of the accident, there was a lack of specialized training of the pilots to handle operating the specific aircraft […]

Court hearing election fraud case visits Elections Commission headquarters

The Georgetown Magistrates’ Court conducted a site visit to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) High Street Office today as the trial into the controversial 2020 Elections continues. It was at GECOM’s High Street Office where the second of two declarations for District 4 was reportedly made by the then Region 4 Returning Officer (RO), Clairmont […]

Guyana joins US, TT, Bolivia and other countries in condemning China’s detention of Panamanian-flagged ships

Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, Bolivia, Costa Rica and Paraguay have come out in support of Panama’s sovereignty, amid what they have described as “increased economic pressures” from China against the Latin American country. China reportedly detained 70 Panamanian-flagged ships in March in retaliation to a Court ruling that saw a Hong Kong-based […]

Education Minister confident of good performance of students in this year’s NGSA exams

Minister of Education, Sonia Parag has expressed confidence that the more than 15,500 students currently writing the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) Examinations will perform well, as she believes the investments made in the Education sector will pay off. Minister Parag visited the Diamond-Grove Primary School on the East Bank of Demerara this morning as […]