The West Indies Federation – also known as the Caribbean Federation – was a short-lived political union of ten British Caribbean colonies established in January 1958. Its creation was authorised by ...

For more than 15 years, the number of persons who died in the violence that followed the February 23rd, 2002 Camp Street jailbreak and the circumstances of their deaths have been the sources of heated ...

(Basdeo Mangru received his doctorate in History from the University of London. He is currently Associate Professor of History at York College, City University of New York.) For a considerable time ...

The constitutional history of Guyana—formerly known as Guiana and encompassing (at different times) the two colonies of Essequibo (established in 1616) and Demerara (established in 1746), along with ...

“The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.” – A Philip Randolph, American ...

Arrests were made and large quantities of cash, gold, mercury, firearms, and drugs were seized during a landmark cross-border operation targeting illegal gold mining across northern South America, ...

A simple “X” marks the end of her lengthy will, still filed in the National Archives at Kew, but the wealthy woman of colour described as the “Queen of Demerara” was most determined that her children ...

The US$25m Hubu Aquafarms project aims to revolutionise aquaculture here with high technology and organic harvests and it hopes to eventually net 30% of the UK’s prawns market. “This is not ...

Mining operations are continuing at Mazoa Hill in the Marudi mining area under a Special Mining Permit (SMP) issued to a co-operative that was legally dissolved nearly three years ago, raising ...

The petroleum exploration licence and petroleum agreement for the shallow offshore Block 4 was this morning signed between the Government of Guyana and a consortium of TotalEnergies of France, ...

Nearly three years after the Sunday Stabroek broke the news that this country’s first cost oil audit had found that ExxonMobil had claimed US$214 million in questionable expenses, the company ...

Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan was probably the most complete criminal in this country’s history. His guilty plea for trafficking in cocaine, witness tampering and gun running last March has robbed the nation ...