Security
Benn urges introspection, accountability in police force: In a strongly worded address at the Guyana Police Force’s 158th Anniversary Symposium on Tuesday, Home Affairs Minister, Robeson Benn called for introspection and accountability within the force and said that ranks must not extort people.
By Miranda La Rose
After a hiatus of about 12 years both from her passion and being part of the community of artists, Sade Barrow-Browne, 37, decided it was time to return and make use of her training in the arts and so, two years ago, she launched online art gallery, FineArt.gy
Mangoes are chief among the fruits that when in season bring about all sorts of thoughts, expressions, instructions, memories, arguments and discussions.
By Alim Hosein
[In a follow-up to his essay last week on the 2024 Joint Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics and the Society for Pidgin Languages set for August 5 – 9 at the University of Guyana Turkeyen and Berbice Campuses and hosted by the Department of Language and Cultural Studies, Alim Hosein looks at the study of these languages and oral literature at UG and the further relevance of the conference.
After a brief opening sequence set in the 1970s, which the film will later return to, most of Osgood Perkins’s newly released “Longlegs” takes place in a grim and austere version of Oregon in the 1990s.
Death is inevitable and even though it is sure to knock on the door of everyone, it still somehow manages to deliver an astounding shock every single time; even in cases where it has been highly anticipated due to illness.
This week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Part two of three of the ‘Recovered Files: Logie and Dujon’, is an interview Roger Seymour conducted in 1997 with Jeffrey Dujon, the former West Indies wicket-keeper.
Scheduled for August 10, 2024, at the Black Magenta venue, Indigenous Imaginations II, organized by the Nine Nations Group, is poised to spotlight the richness of Indigenous culture through a spectrum of creative expressions.
During the 2024 Junior Championship Qualifier Tournament sponsored by Moo Milk, which was contested earlier this month, Mahir Rajkumar outplayed Italy Ton-Chung.
Breaking Down Sexual Offences Act
Today we will break down section 38 of the Sexual Offences Act, Cap 8:03, Laws of Guyana (“SOA”), a provision which abolished the irrebuttable presumption developed decades ago that a boy under 14 years is incapable of sexual competence, and therefore of rape.
Corruption
Allegations against Brutus being probed by SOCU – Benn: Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn last week said that the allegations of financial impropriety made against Deputy Commissioner (ag) of Police, Calvin Brutus is being investigated by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU).