Risha Persaud

Lady Scotland, the controversial Commonwealth secretary general, who will remain in post until next year, despite Downing Street sowing doubts about her future. Following reports that Boris Johnson had used his role as chair of the Commonwealth organisation to prevent Scotland’s reappointment, she has been given a formal written contract to remain …

PM Mottley violates sacred tenet of her legal profession- called on to harness her behaviour It is disappointing that none other than the sitting head of CARICOM, a Queen’s Counsel in law, choses to make comments subjudice even as the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is yet to hear a …

A construction worker and a Nation News photographer were killed within minutes of each other in a bloody cutlass attack on the grounds of the former residence of the Anglican Bishop of Barbados. The double murder, which took place on the abandoned property at Bishop’s Court, St Michael, claimed the …

Chief Elections Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Elections Commission Keith Lowenfield today submitted a report to the Chair Justice Claudette Singh, with numbers which do not reflect those certified from the recount activity. The Evening News understands that the GECOM Chair has since rejected the report. According to the figures …

Infamous social media commentator, Mikhail Rodrigues aka Guyanese Critic is back at it again with more offensive slurs but this time its geared towards the LGBTQ community. It was just last week Rodrigues was made to apologize to the black Guyanese community after a long Facebook live rant stating that …

As the coronavirus spread in early March, Marilyn Howard worked side-by-side at Spring Street Community School in Brooklyn with a fellow nurse who came in with a fever and bad cough because she had run out of paid sick days. Howard, 53, started feeling sick that weekend, when Mayor de …