GEORGETOWN, Guyana – As Guyana turns 50 as an independent nation in a few days on May 26, preparations to usher in this significant milestone are obvious around this capital city and other parts of the country that I toured during a two-week visit. Expectations are high for visitors and reports say hotels especially in […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – A Guyanese mother was one of two people who appeared in court charged with stealing stuffed toys including those of TV characters Spongebob Squarepants and Barney from a mini-mart. Rhonda Daniels, 32 and Rickson Patterson, 42 of La Romaine appeared before senior magistrate Nannette Forde-John. The charge laid by Constable […]
NEW YORK CITY – TIME, the world’s biggest news magazine, has named Janet Jagan, a former president of Guyana, as one of history’s most rebellious women. In honour of International Women’s Day, the renowned magazine carried an article featuring what it described as some unlikely revolutionaries. Also named in the magazine’s top 16 were: Joan […]
As hearings continue into the deadly riots at the Georgetown Prisons, Toronto lawyer Selwyn Pieters who is representing prison and police officials says “the prison has to be sanitized of illegal weapons” held by inmates. The Camp Street Prison disturbances from March 2 to 4 claimed the lives of 17 inmates, resulted in a […]
By Jasminee Sahoye In a rare move for a diplomat relieved of their duties at an overseas mission, Guyana’s former high commissioner to Canada has taken a bold step by suing the Guyanese government for more than GYD$49 million, equivalent to more than CAD$300,000. According to an online news site in Guyana, Demerara Waves, […]
Trouble has erupted among those tasked with conducting the official inquiry into the fatal riots at Guyana’s Camp Street Prison in Georgetown. In a dispute that spilled over into Facebook, Toronto lawyer Selwyn Pieters – who is representing the police and prison services at the Commission of Inquiry into the Disturbances and Subsequent Deaths at […]
“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.” Then the righteous answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did you see me […]
Prominent Toronto lawyer and community activist Selwyn Pieters is taking a major role in Guyana representing law enforcement officials following the deadly riot at the prison in Georgetown. On Tuesday, he announced on Facebook he will be playing an integral part in the Commission of Inquiry into the recent riot that left 17 prisoners dead […]
Guyanese Canadians in the GTA are awaiting answers as a commission of inquiry begins probing two days of prison rioting and fires that left 17 dead and numerous inmates injured at Georgetown’s Camp Street Prisons. The commission is to report by March 15. A recently completed commission of inquiry dealt with the assassination of renowned […]
Sydney Allicock, vice-president of Guyana and minister of indigenous people’s affairs, brought a message of “Together we will be strong, Unity is strength” to Canadian First Nations people last Sunday at Trent University in Peterborough. On Saturday at the Guyana Consulate, the Guyana Diaspora held hands in love and unity as they prayed for guidance […]
