Accepting the 2022 European Union Delegation Human Rights Award on Thursday, Stabroek News’ Editor-in-Chief (EiC), Anand Persaud, posited that democracy is no guarantee of adherence to human rights or press freedom as he called on all to work together to ensure these standards are upheld.
Questions were yesterday raised by the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the 2020 elections as it relates to the time that Information Technology (IT) Officer Enrique Livan would have had to change the number of figures from some of the Statements of Poll (SOPs) as alleged by many of the observers on hand, since some video evidence has suggested that he had no particular time to do so.
The much anticipated Parika/Bartica online ferry booking service commenced operation at midday yesterday.
Although there was a rule by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) stating that no political party or any presidential candidates were allowed to have any meetings at the Ashmins building, which was the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Command Centre for the 2020 elections, then Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Karen Cummings was seen inside the building in a room with the Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) Roxanne Myers and a number of international observers on the day of a bomb scare.
Two weeks after one of her suitcases went missing and another was broken into, a Caribbean Airlines passenger is pleading for help from airline authorities.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – Further easing of COVID-19 testing requirements and quarantine rules in some Chinese cities was met with a mix of relief and worry on Friday, as hundreds of millions await an expected shift in national virus policies after widespread social unrest.
A Bushlot, West Coast Berbice woman was yesterday remanded to prison over the murder of her 85-year-old great aunt.
(Reuters) – Millions of New York rats have been put on notice: the most populous city in the United States is hiring a director of rodent mitigation, a new position that calls for a “swashbuckling attitude” and a “general aura of badassery.”
The Mayor and City Council, along with its engineering team in collaboration with the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) are still working to have the Cowan Street, Kingston, wooden sluice door replaced with a steel plate door.
PARIS, (Reuters) – French fashion house Balenciaga’s creative director and chief executive officer both apologized Friday for an advertising campaign that sparked criticism on social media over accusations that it featured inappropriate imagery involving children.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday dismissed an indictment against Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co [RIC:RIC:HWT.UL],
The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has moved a step closer to its goal of providing its core services to residents of remote regions with the opening of a new sub-office in the town of Mabaruma, Region One, (Barima-Waini).
KYIV, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden does not intend to speak to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, about ending the Ukraine war as conditions for such discussions currently do not exist, the White House said on Friday.
As had been expected, Jones Raymond, the man who was freed back in July after spending almost a decade on remand awaiting trial for murder without even being indicted, has brought an action against the State in which he seeking $3M in compensation for what he says is breach of several of his fundamental rights.
Following their selection to perform in Qatar at the ongoing FIFA World Cup games, the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports has sponsored the airfare of a local Indigenous dance group.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Swiss engineering and technology group ABB Ltd ABBN.S
A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Chief Scrutineer Carol Smith Joseph has moved to the High Court for an urgent hearing challenging the Guyana Elections Commission’s method used in compiling the voters list to be used in the March 13 Local Government Elections (LGE).
(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Finance Colm Imbert announced yesterday that the country has, for the first time in 14 years, achieved a fiscal surplus, the first since 2007/2008.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s Federal Court rejected yesterday an appeal by Santos Ltd STO.AX
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican Economy Minister Raquel Buenrostro and U.S.
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