Risha Persaud

Embattled Guyanese President Irfaan Ali took a page out of US past President Donald Trump’s book and placed blame on migrants for rising crime even though his regime historically equated to crime incline.          

The government of Guyana has awarded over $346 million to build schools in Linden to two inexperienced DJ’s without any building portfolio ever, Rawle Ferguson and Kollers who are known for promoting events and throwing parties were granted a multi-million building contract above actual building contractors that bid for that …

Guyanese immigrant Prakash Churaman was 15 years old when police officers snatched him from his mother’s basement apartment and took him to the 113th Precinct in Jamaica, Queens. Without a lawyer present, Detectives Daniel Gallagher and Barry Brown alternately berated and cajoled Churaman for almost three hours. At the time, …

A Guyana bride was moved to tears after her son, a US soldier, surprised her at the altar after being away for three years, as seen in a touching clip. The tearjerking event happened this past winter but is only now making waves — and “waterfalls” — across social media. …

Magistrate Khadeen Palmer granted $50,000 signed bail to David Cummings and Lynette Sommersell, both non-nationals because she felt that they have been living in the Virgin Islands in excess of 20 years with no previous convictions and she could see no reason for them to flee the jurisdiction. A loaded …

ExxonMobil’s huge new Guyana project faces charges of a disregard for safety from experts who claim the company has failed to adequately prepare for possible disaster, the Guardian and Floodlight have found. Exxon has been extracting oil from Liza 1, an ultra-deepwater drilling operation, since 2019 – part of an expansive project …

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine emergency use authorization for children ages 12 through 15. The FDA first gave this vaccine emergency use authorization for people age 16 and older in late 2020. Dr. Anthony stated that the process of getting children vaccinated against COVID-19 has …

A Guyanese national is at the head of Amazon’s Black Business Accelerator, the $150 million company commitment to supporting Black-owned businesses on its platform through a new accelerator program. The accelerator program was the brainchild of Tiffany Johnson, an account manager at Amazon, who noticed the disparity between the percentage …

Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Hon. Dr. Ralph Gonsalves sustained a head injury earlier tonight, August 5, in the capital as he attempted to pass through a mob of angry protesters. “Somebody just hit the Prime Minister with a stone!” shouted a man repeatedly during a video …

One of the men involved in the Queens driveway dispute that led to the fatal shooting of 10-year-old Justin Wallace has been busted with a half-dozen firearms, cops said Friday. Police executed a search warrant at Ashram Lochan’s home on Beach 45th Street in Far Rockaway, Lochan a man of Guyanese …