Denis Chabrol

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Last Updated on Saturday, 21 June 2025, 7:09 by By Nelson A. KingNEW YORK, Jun 21, CMC – The New York-based Guyanese political activist, Rickford Burke, has welcomed the ruling by the Guyana Chief Justice, Roxane George-Wiltshire, dismissing the defamatory libel charges against him, after ruling Friday that it is unconstitutional and violates the enshrined right to freedom of expression.

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in Agriculture, Business, Commodities, News, Politics Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 17:43 by President Irfaan Ali late Tuesday announced that the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) would be diversified into large scale cultivation of other crops with provision for farmers to own and earn from the operations.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 15:40 by Guyana’s Constitution and the Representation of the People Act do not provide for independent candidates to contest general elections under the Proportional Representation of the People Act (RoPA). “It does not accommodate one-man candidacies, and that is by deliberate design, not inadvertence or oppression,” Attorney General Anil Nandlall said in his submission in response to case brought by civil society activist, Christopher Ram.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 12:15 by Singer and disc jockey (DJ), Daniel “Baby Skello” Wharton was Tuesday granted GY$45,000 bail pending trial for the offence of blasphemous libel connected with a song about a Hindu goddess, an opposition spokesman said. Mr Wharton’s release from remand now depends on the payment of the bail.

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Last Updated on Monday, 16 June 2025, 11:36 by The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) on Monday strongly condemns the “reprehensible and deeply offensive comments” made by Ms. Jennifer Ally on Facebook, directed at the late Adrianna Younge and her grieving family. The Commission says it is appalled that, during a time of mourning, such vile and hateful expressions were publicly shared, further inflicting pain on a family already burdened by tragic loss.