GEORGETOWN, Guyana: CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General, Trade and Economic Integration, Mr. Joseph Cox, says the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was not only causing upheavals in health and social spheres, but was also having serious deleterious effects on economic life by causing a re-ordering of processes, changing operational ethos, and strategic pivoting at both the national and regional levels. […]
By Linda Nwoke, CAW Exclusive Described as a mysterious land, Guyana has a rich culture with a varied and luscious landscape. It is home to the world’s largest and most powerful single-drop waterfall, the Kaieteur Falls, one of the most powerful waterfalls globally, with an average water flow rate of over 660 cubic meters per […]
By Wired JA GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 18, 2021 – Former Lands and Survey Commissioner, Trevor Benn on Wednesday emerged from a question and answer session with the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID), saying that the Irfaan Ali administration was becoming a “creeping dictatorship.” He was reacting following his interrogation by the police in […]
By WiredJA GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 22, 2021 – Coalition M.P. and Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Amanza Walton Desir, pulled no punches as she opened the 2021 budget debate with a stinging presentation which had Irfaan Ali’s PPPC administration on the ropes as she landed blows which bruised, scarred and opened the PPP’s old wounds. Ms […]
Photo Credit: Economist By Guyanese Online Artist Frank Bowling OBE RA has been conferred with the honour of Knight Bachelor in the Birthday 2020 Honours List by Her Majesty The Queen. The Birthday Honours list recognises the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom. During his six-decades long career, Bowling’s […]
Street of Georgetown, Guyana. (Shutterstock) By Sir Ronald Sanders Once again, Guyana is causing regional and international worry following two sets of killings of young men (two of African origin and two of Indian origin) that have sparked the flames of communal violence and threaten to engulf the country. The facts of these killings are […]
Photo Credit: Stabroek News By Stabroek News, Guyanese Online Former Minister of Finance Winston Jordan (see photo), says the new PPP/C government’s 2020 emergency budget has eroded the revenue base of the country, while enormously inflating the deficit and he charged that the budgetary measures are private-sector oriented rather than for the people. Speaking during an […]
By Calvin G Brown – wiredja.com GEORGETOWN, Guyana. August 29, 2020 – All is not well in Guyana as simmering political tension over the arrest and detention by the ruling PPP of several Guyana Electoral Commission (GECOM) officers seem to have exploded in the community of Belladrum, West Coast resulting in the deployment of heavily […]
By WiredJA Former President, David Granger is of the view that the Irfaan Ali administration commenced its tenure on a bad start after they began firing public servants just days into office. Granger, during a closed interview with PNC’s Nicole Telford, questioned the priorities of the new administration, citing that they seem to be focused more […]
Guyana’s Foreign Minister, Dr. Karen Cummings has told the Organisation of American States (OAS) that her country’s laws and court decisions would “alone” be used to determine the outcome of the general and regional elections.
By Denis Chabrol-Demerara Waves, WiredJA GEORGETOWN, Guyana, July 21, 2020 – Guyana’s Foreign Minister, Dr. Karen Cummings has told the Organisation of American States (OAS) that her country’s laws and court decisions would “alone” be used to determine the outcome of the general and regional elections. In apparent reference to calls by the OAS for […]