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While calling for there to be continuous transformation of education across the Region, Guyana’s Minister of Education, Sonia Parag, has warned that while the Region must embrace technological changes to learning and teaching, the literacy and numeracy model adopted by the Region and Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) must not be abandoned, stating that slower learners […]
Today’s cross-examination of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sharon Roopchand, in the ongoing Mohameds’ extradition case, centered around a Diplomatic note that was dispatched by the Government of Guyana to the US Government, seeking assurances that US indicted businessmen, Nazar and Azruddin Mohamed will not be extradited to a third state […]
The opposition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), has activated a legal team with more than eight lawyers to provide legal assistance to 50 families who were ordered to remove from a disputed land in the village of Friendship on the East Bank of Demerara. Attorney-at-Law and APNU Member of Parliament, Dexter Todd, visited the […]
The President of the Caribbean Court of Justice, Justice Winston Anderson, has proposed the establishment of an International Climate Injuries Compensation (ICIC) Fund, funded by corporate actors, to provide compensation for damage and harm resulting from extraordinary weather events. The CCJ President presented the proposal while speaking at the Inter-American Seminar on Climate Emergency and […]
In a unanimous decision this afternoon, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal that was filed by the Mohameds in one of their extradition matters, which claimed bias by the Home Affairs Minister over the issuance of the Authority to Proceed with the extradition matter. The Court found that the Minister was carrying out one […]
Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman today adjusted the bail conditions for US indicted businessmen Nazar and Azruddin Mohamed in the ongoing Extradition Committal Proceedings. However, the father and son were cautioned that any breach would result in their bail being forfeited. The decision was taken in response to complaints by the Prosecution of possible breaches. The […]
By Svetlana Marshall Stabroek News – one of Guyana’s longest running independent newspapers – printed its last edition this morning, bidding farewell to the country’s media landscape after 39 years. Known as the “newspaper of record”, from the time of it first edition, Stabroek News in November 1986, the newspaper was seen as championing democracy, […]
Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform and Chairman of the APNU, Aubrey Norton on Friday welcomed the Government’s announcement of the start of the $100,000 cash grant distribution, but said citizens deserve more than a quick fix to the deeper problems of the cost of living and poverty that continue to face the country. […]
The Government of Guyana is not serious about the effective implementation of the Access to Information Legislation, Editor-in-Chief of Stabroek News, Anand Persaud said, as he weighed in on the uphill battle to access information through the Office of the Commissioner of Information. Persaud is among civil society actors, who have been protesting the Office […]
As the extradition hearing against US-indicted billionaire businessmen, Nazar and Azruddin Mohamed resumed today in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman reprimanded Special Prosecutor Herbert McKenzie after he made comments about the period of time that the case has been ongoing before the Court. The Prosecutor made the comments while objecting to a […]
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