THE PIPER: Road to Independence
With the 50th Anniversary of our Independence from Britain scheduled to be commemorated this coming Thursday, in addition to announcements of all the gaiety...
THE PIPER: One Year Later
One year has elapsed since the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) declared the APNU/AFC Coalition the winner of the 2016 General Elections and they formed...
THE PIPER: Vendors should not be pawns
Once again, the vendors of Georgetown are in the news. But for the wrong reasons. Urban vending, however is not unique to Guyana but...
THE PIPER: Functioning government agency
Government agencies are frequently criticised by the public because of their perceived reluctance or refusal to perform their assigned tasks in service of the...
THE PIPER: Beleaguered citizens
In the last week there were two incidents that shocked the sensibilities of most Guyanese. These were the murders of the rice farming, elderly...
THE PIPER: Shutdown of LBI sugar estate
The revelation by GAWU and NAACIE, the unions in the sugar industry, that operations at La Bonne Intention (LBI) is being wound up reinforces...
THE PIPER: Panama Papers reveal double standards
The dust is starting to settle after the revelations in the Panama Papers that were finally released after one year of sifting and filtering...
THE PIPER: Advisors and Pragmatism
A big kerfuffle has erupted over Minister of State Joseph Harmon's appointment of businessman Brian Tiwari as a "Ministerial Advisor on Business". While the...
THE PIPER: Easter and democratic rebirth
Last week we wrote about the Local Government Elections as a "rebirth". Wittingly or unwittingly, the announcement of the results and subsequent appointment by...
THE PIPER: Local Government Rebirth
In what has to be labelled "historic" circumstances, the first Local Government Elections (LGE) in twenty-two years were conducted. Not surprisingly, most of the...
Recent Articles
Vessels fraudulently using Guyana’s flag sanctioned by US Treasury Dept
See full statement from the Maritime Administration Department:
The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) wishes to share the facts in relation to information shared in a...
Historic moment for Guyana & US – Ambassador Theriot on Gte loan approval
Today, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM), announced an approval of more than $526 million to the Ministry of Finance of the...
US EXIM Bank Grants Final Approval for US$526 M Gas to Energy Loan to...
Today at noon, His Excellency the President Dr. Mohammed Irfaan Ali received a telephone call from the President and Chair of the United States...
$100K cash grant: Rigid systems in place to avoid registration, issuance of cash grants...
In light of specious and baseless claims by some sections of the public that dead people were registered for the 100,000 one-off cash grant...
ExxonMobil now owns all 3 FPSOs operating in Stabroek Block
The purchase of the Liza Destiny Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel by ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL), was recently completed for US$535 million,...
Christmas 2024 in Guyana – When the tradition keeps on living – by Sébastien...
An account from Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana Sébastien Sigouin on his 1st Guyanese Christmas experience
If there was one distinctive part of my Christmases...
Pedestrian killed in Corentyne accident
A Corentyne man is now dead after being hit by a car about 30 minutes before Christmas Day.
Dead is Jermaine Fraser, 40, of Auchlyne...
E-bike rider killed after colliding with minibus at WCB
An electric bike rider is now dead after colliding with a minibus at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) on Christmas Eve.
Dead...
25 years of hard work burnt to the ground, rebuilt for Christmas
By: Mishael Henry
The smell of burnt charcoal lingers in the nostrils of Andrew McBean, and is etched into his memory like a sore scar.
Exactly...
A soldier’s boots under the tree, but no son to wear them
By: La'Wanda McAllister
Festive homes all over Guyana are glimmering with Christmas lights and the melody of carols float in the warm December air. But...