By News Source Guyana on November 21, 2023
News, Politics
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly continues to find it challenging to get some former Public Officers to appear before the Committee to account for their spending of government funds under their watch. The Committee has announced that it is now in the process of drafting legislation that it hopes will […]
By News Source Guyana on November 21, 2023
News, Politics
The General Council Meeting of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) ended on Sunday with no clear indication of a timeline or date for the party’s Biennial Delegates Congress. This December will mark two years since the last Delegates Congress and Elections took place. In September, the Leader of the PNCR, Aubrey Norton assured that […]
By News Source Guyana on November 21, 2023
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The Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Natural Resources will be conducting a ‘fact-finding mission’ to Chinese Landing to gain better insight into the aged-old mining controversy that has been plaguing the village. Chinese Landing is an indigenous community located in Region One. In 2017, the Caribbean Court of Justice ruled that the Guyana Geology and Mines […]
By News Source Guyana on November 21, 2023
Caribbean & International, News, Politics
Guyana’s Agent for the current border case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and former Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge, has called out Venezuela for using sections of the Geneva Agreement to suit its own narrative, while still laying claim to Guyana’s territory. Declaring Venezuela’s continued posture as problematic for Guyana and the Caribbean region. […]
By News Source Guyana on November 21, 2023
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The Labour Department and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission have joined the investigations into Saturday’s deadly accident at Aurora Gold Mines that claimed the life of truck driver, Joseph Licorish of Linden. News Source understands that a Labour Officer was dispatched to the interior mining location of the Aurora company over the weekend, and […]
By News Source Guyana on November 20, 2023
Business, News, Politics
Vendors who operate on the pavement outside the Muneshwers Store on Water Street will likely have to pack up and remove from the area by the 15th January 2024. The Georgetown City Council was recently ordered by the Court to remove all encumbrances from outside the store. City Mayor Alfred Mentore met with the affected […]
By News Source Guyana on November 20, 2023
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The prolonged dry season that has been sweeping across the country for over six months, is being blamed for the steep increase in prices for fruits and vegetables on the local market. On the sidelines of an EU forum at the Guyana Marriott Hotel, President Irfaan Ali today said farmers have been hard hit by […]
By News Source Guyana on November 20, 2023
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The General Council meeting of the People’s National Congress Reform, ended on Sunday evening with the party’s full commitment to counter threats and aggressions from neighboring Venezuela against Guyana in the ongoing border controversy. In a statement, the People’s National Congress said its Leader, Mr. Aubrey Norton, has pledged that the party will stand in […]
By News Source Guyana on November 20, 2023
Caribbean & International, News, Politics
Barbadian Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, has declared that she is fully supportive of Guyana in the ongoing border controversy with neighbouring Venezuela. Prime Minister Mottley was criticized recently after calling on both Guyana and Venezuela to ensure the region remains a zone of peace, while reminding Barbadians that Venezuela has been a good “sister” to […]
By News Source Guyana on November 19, 2023
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One of Guyana’s oldest political parties, the Working People’s Alliance, has issued a call on the Government and the National Assembly to consider a counter-referendum to affirm Guyana’s territorial integrity, in wake of the ongoing acts of aggression from neighbouring Venezuela and a heightening of its claims of Guyana’s Essequibo region. In a statement on […]