Danuta Radzik News Today

The recently concluded PPP 35th annual congress will go down in history for the election of Nigel Dharamlall to the 35-member, central committee of the PPP party, and to its executive council. The election of Nigel Dharamlall is glaring in its insensitivity and demonstrates a contemptuous disregard for the trauma of sexual violence and the physical and deeply psychological scars and suffering of victims/survivors.We remind Guyanese women, citizens, the PPP central committee and its executive arm...

Danuta Radzik, a citizen with an established history of rights advocacy since the 1970s, has moved to the High Court, challenging the legality of two serving members of the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB): Dr. Mahendar Sharma and Mr. Joslyn McKenzie, in relation to their involvement in deliberating and deciding on appeals against the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) exemption of the government's 300 megawatt (MW) Power Plant for the Gas to Shore Project from an Environmenta...

Yesterday May 18th, the Department of Language and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Education and Humanities at the University of Guyana observed Haiti Flag and Universities Day.

Former Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan, has condemned the move by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to appeal the recent ruling by High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon regarding oil spill insurance and the parent company guarantee by ExxonMobil, calling it a “shameful” and “anti-national” appeal of the “powerful” ruling.

The Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) on Wednesday issued its decision to uphold the waiver of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for a 300 megawatt gas-fired power plant to be constructed at Wales, West Bank Demerara.

The Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) is yet to hand down its decision on the appeals made by citizens, regarding the waiver of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for a 300-megawatt gas fired power plant to be constructed at Wales, West Bank Demerara.

“The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has relegated itself to a state of laxity of enforcement and condonation compounded by a lack of vigilance thereby putting this nation and its people in grave potential danger of calamitous disaster,” those were the words of High Court Judge, Justice Sandil Kissoon, when he handed down his ruling in a monumental case against Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and ‘ExxonMobil Guyana,’ Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (...

It is a well-known fact that residents from the Houston, East Bank Demerara (EBD) have raised concerns about the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s decision to permit the operation of a hazardous waste facility in the area without a proper environmental assessment of the risks to those who live and work nearby.  

A group of 23 women and two men have issued a letter to the press, calling on government and other aligned actors to cease their vile attacks against activists, journalists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and human rights defenders who are doing their part to represent the interests of vulnerable groups.

Over the past month verbal attacks, denigrating comments, erroneous accusations, name calling and threats against journalists, NGOs, environmental activists and human rights defenders have mushroomed. Such actions have originated from several sources, including senior members of Government, individuals who appear to be paid or unpaid advisers, social media personalities, columnists and anonymous Facebook page operators. These attacks including threats have been publicized in the media so they ar...