{"id":22039,"date":"2024-09-03T00:20:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T00:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=22039"},"modified":"2024-09-03T00:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T00:20:38","slug":"guyana-government-denies-rickford-burkes-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-government-denies-rickford-burkes-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Government Denies Rickford Burke&#8217;s Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The Guyanese government has dismissed allegations made by U.S.-based Guyanese Rickford Burke, who claimed persecution and attempts at kidnapping by the government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has labeled these accusations as &#8220;false and unfounded.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, the government described Burke&#8217;s complaints as a malicious attack on its integrity and noted that Burke has been involved in a scheme of extortion using social media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government reported that a sting operation led to the arrest of Burke&#8217;s associates, with one confessing to Burke&#8217;s involvement in the extortion scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government is urging U.S. authorities to thoroughly investigate Burke&#8217;s claims and has lodged a comprehensive report with U.S. agencies regarding his actions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legal proceedings are ongoing in Guyana, with Burke reportedly seeking to avoid facing these charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guyanese government has dismissed allegations made by U.S.-based Guyanese Rickford Burke, who claimed persecution and attempts at kidnapping by the government. The government has labeled these accusations as &#8220;false&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22046,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22039\/revisions\/22046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}