The name Jay and Sylvia Sobhraj Centre for Behavioral Studies and Research Centre will soon be emblazoned on a state-of-the-art facility at the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen campus. Jay Sobhraj, a Guyanese-born United States based philanthropist, has pumped a significant ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Bert Wilkinson Amid stinging criticism from all quarters, including lawmakers on its side of the house, the British government has made an abrupt about face on plans to send thousands of its nationals back ...
People’s Progressive Party (PPP) parliamentarians plan to boycott a tour of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport development project, but intends to ask for an audit of the project that is supposed to cost US$150 million, mostly through a loan from ...
The United States (US) appears to be stepping up its focus on intellectual property protection in Guyana, with American Ambassador, Perry Holloway urging locals not to buy bogus products and welcoming signals that government is about to draft modern copyright ...
by GHK Lall Some sharp thoughts were provoked by the article titled, “Harmon on 1.76b judgment to TPL…PPP left some deep dark holes” (KN April 24). I usually do not find much with which to agree on with the Hon. ...
by GHK Lall Professor Clive Thomas, Head of SARA, went public to point out that international documents show the “massive scale of corruption and money laundering” in once cash choked Guyana (Demerara Waves April 20). It has been a long ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Azad Ali Two ex-top officials in the former People’s Progressive Party (PPP) government have been charged with “misconduct in public office” by officers of Guyana’s Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU). Former Minister of Finance ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Bert Wilkinson Industrial action by staff at the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission has forced authorities to remove gold testing equipment from the compound after dozens of staffers had tested positive for elevated levels ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By George Alleyne With Barbados continuing to wander as a nation without a parliament, the leader of the main political party outside of government, Mia Mottley, has written a public letter to prime Minister Freundel ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King This past weekend a 50-year-old Jewish man was said to be physically beaten and choked in the afternoon on Rutland Road and Schenectady Avenue in Brooklyn after heading home from a ...