Guyana Times

More prison blocks are being built at the Mazaruni Prison in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) to facilitate a massive transfer of prisoners from the Georgetown Prison in an effort to ease the overcrowding at the facility. This was disclosed by President David Granger who was at the time responding to questions posed by media operatives during his weekly telecast ‘The Public...

The Guyana Association of Women Police (GAWP) on Saturday hosted its annual Hat Show and Competition with the aim of providing bursaries for six students who would be writing the Secondary School Entrance Examination (SSEE) and in celebration of Guyana’s 50th Independence anniversary. The event hosted at Police Officers’ Mess Annexe, Eve Leary, saw children, women young and old, beautifully...

...remember one-third quota, coolie woman, Was your blood spilled so I might reject my history... forget tears among the paddy leaves? – Mahadai Das Of recent, I have been forced to think about the question of “feminism” through the lens of being a member of a community that looks at the issue a bit differently than the metropolitan countries where the...

The taxi driver who transported self-confessed murderer to Mahdia after killing his ‘child mother’ Simone Hackett, surrendered to police at Mahdia on Friday evening. He was subsequently taken to the Criminal Investigations Department at Eve Leary where he is being grilled. He is expected to be charged as an accessory to murder shortly. Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum told Guyana Times that...

Dear Editor, It was with a deep sense of relief when it was reported that President Granger had appointed Infrastructure Minister David Patterson to overtake the management, and completion of the Durban Park (DP) project. Minister Patterson has thus far proven to be a competent, and capable individual for the responsibilities entrusted to him under his portfolio. While I’m not in...

Dear Editor, My first encounter with Carol Joseph was when she joined a taxi I was in on my way to Georgetown. It was sometime before the 2015 General Election, and the political landscape was the subject of discussion between the other two passengers, both in their early 20s. As a political analyst, I obviously joined the discussion and asked...

Dear Editor, It seems as though the Ministry of the Presidency (MoP) is being undermined so as to get control of the Norway funds. As the MOP subject Minister, Harmon is embroiled in various controversies surrounding his recent visit to China .Some are trying to take advantage of it and even trying to undermine it. An article of Monday 19...

Dear Editor, I am happy that Attorney General Basil Williams is moving to root out the institutions that “reek of selfishness” in Guyana and has set his sights on Red House which houses the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre, and which he says should be a museum for all of Guyana’s presidents. I expect that he will be swooping down on...

Even as the Commission of Inquiry into the deaths of 17 prisoners at Camp Street Prison continues, President Granger is reported to have opined that "the problems at the prison will not be resolved unless there is a massive re-deployment of prisoners from Georgetown to Mazaruni Prison." It is not known whether this suggestion was initially proffered by...

By Shemuel Fanfair Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the Camp Street Prison riots, Retired Justice James Patterson has described the actions of Guyana Bar Association President Christopher Ram as “outrageous” after he walked out of the CoI on Wednesday. In a strongly worded statement issued late Friday afternoon, Justice Patterson said the attorney “displayed the tantrums of...