Risha Persaud

In addition to the spiraling out-of-control crime rate in Guyana, criminals are now taking advantage of the People’s Progressive Party government’s “don’t ask, won’t tell” stance on the illegal drug trade. On Thursday, the Customs department of the Netherlands found a consignment of cocaine weighing 530 kilos in a sea …

The Afro-Guyanese community received somewhat of a scripted apology from Minister Charles Ramson who was heard on a local radio station stating that the “Afro-Guyanese community is lacking role models”. Ramson quickly took to his social media to recant his statements and pointed out in a traditionally racist fashion that …

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 …