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Thursday, December 26, 2024

THE PIPER: Increasing Broadcasters

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, in charge of Information in the coalition government, announced that in reviewing the status of the Radio and TV  broadcasting...

THE PIPER: Justice delayed is justice denied  

 The Commission of Inquiry appointed to examine the Camp Street Jail tragedy in which seventeen remanded prisoners perished and dozens were injured has been...

THE PIPER: Rodney COI – No need for more controversy

It is very unfortunate that the Rodney Commission of Inquiry's (COI) Report has been embargoed by President David Granger. This act, added to the...

THE PIPER: Population manipulations?

Ever since last year when the APNU/AFC government broke with the century-old tradition of subsuming Guyana's immigration department under the Police Force, there have...

THE PIPER: End of oil age?

In Finance Minister Winston Jordan's Budget Speech at the end of January, he offered his Government's perspective on our oil prospects, in the wake...

THE PIPER: Strike Weapon

The sugar unions have brought out workers in a widespread strike in the Berbice and Demerara Estates in an effort to convince the APNU/AFC...

The Piper: A conservative Budget

Budget 2016 was presented on Friday amid a great deal of expectations after the APNU+AFC inaugural but truncated one that covered the latter half...

Guyana the Good

BY THE PIPER Christmas is a special time of the year. We tend to get a little cushy and think of things in kinder and...

Guyana in 2015 – Continuity and Change

By The Piper 2015 saw some real changes, many of them good; others still to prove their worth over time. Some things have continued, the...

The ‘West’ Deserves Some Praise in Response to San Bernardino Attack

By The Piper On December 02, Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik donned face masks, loaded up their high-powered rifles and pipe bombs and...

Recent Articles

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...

Dear Santa, we’ve got wishes: children and their letters to Santa

By: Jarryl Bryan Christmas is here, and children everywhere are busy writing letters to Santa Claus, pleading their case for gifts and justifying why...

Christmas Messages!

People’s Progressive Party (PPP) As the season of Yuletide embraces us, families come together in love and joy, and communities celebrate in unique ways, sharing...

69,000 public sector employees receive 10% increase, injecting $18B into Guyana’s economy

Following the conclusion of the historic Government of Guyana (GoG) and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) multi-year agreement with respect to employment benefits...

Prosecution applies for Calvin Brutus’ bail to be revoked amid alleged flight attempt

The prosecution has applied to the court to revoke Assistant Police Commissioner Calvin Brutus’s bail and have him remanded to prison, alleging he attempted...

GRA urges persons involved in luxury vehicle tax evasion racket to visit HQ

See full statement from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA): In its diligence aimed at collecting the rightful revenue due to the State, the Revenue Authority...