By News Source Guyana on June 22, 2016
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The controversial parking meter project will have to make two stops before the Georgetown City Council rolls on with the contract. The government announced on Wednesday that cabinet has taken a decision to have the contract reviewed by the Ministry of Finance and the Attorney General Chambers for any possible discrepancies or illegalities that may exist. […]
By News Source Guyana on June 22, 2016
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Wage and salary negotiations between the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) and the Government of Guyana kicked off on Wednesday morning amid high expectations. The GPSU has already said it is hoping to bargain for a 40% increase in salaries but the technical team is calling for the government’s ability to honor any increases to […]
By News Source Guyana on June 22, 2016
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Public Service wages negotiations will begin today after an absence for several years under the previous government. The Guyana Public Service Union announced on Tuesday that it has been invited to negotiations with the government for the wages for the nation’s public servants. GPSU is pushing for a 40% increase. It welcomes the move by […]
By News Source Guyana on June 21, 2016
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Following a threat by Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan International Airport to revoke the carrier agreement with Caribbean Airlines over the dumping of Guyana duty free purchases in Trinidad, the airline has reached an agreement with the Airport. The agreement will now allow passengers to place their duty free purchases in their checked baggages under security supervision […]
By News Source Guyana on June 21, 2016
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The 21-year-old Vryheid’s Lust woman, Angelica Forde, who pleaded guilty on Monday to trafficking more than six pounds of cocaine was slapped with a four year jail sentence on Tuesday morning and fined $8.2 Million. The sentence was handed down by Magistrate Bibi Zameena-Ali at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court. Forde appeared composed as the sentence […]
By News Source Guyana on June 21, 2016
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An 18-year-old Kuru Kururu man is nursing a gunshot wound that he sustained during an argument with another man on Monday night over a brush cutter. Police investigators have reported that the incident occurred just after 8 o’ clock on Monday night during a heated argument between the 18-year-old, Kevin Batson and 25-year-old, Andrew Fields, at […]
By News Source Guyana on June 20, 2016
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An aircraft engineer attached to Roraima Airways in nursing a number of injuries including burns to his body after the right side wing of a Roraima Airways Trislander aircraft caught fire and exploded during maintenance on the ground in the Roraima Airways hangar. In a statement, the company said the engineer is currently stable and resting in hospital. […]
By News Source Guyana on June 20, 2016
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Mayor of Georgetown, Patricia Chase-Green called a press conference on Monday and made it clear that the full Council was aware her being invited to Mexico and Panama. Chase-Green provided and read documented evidence from the minutes of Council’s Statutory meeting, May 23, 2016 as the ninth item under her announcements that she as Mayor […]
By News Source Guyana on June 20, 2016
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A 21-year-old woman pleaded guilty to a cocaine trafficking charge on Monday but denied that her husband had encouraged her to do. The remorseful Angelica Forde, appeared in the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court on Monday, almost one week after she was found with cocaine strapped to her body at the Eugene F. Correia International Airport at […]
By News Source Guyana on June 20, 2016
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General Secretary of the opposition People’s Progressive Party, Clement Rohee on Monday said he could not agree entirely with the sentiments expressed by outgoing Deputy Chief of Missions at the US Embassy in Guyana, Bryan Hunt. Rohee was present at Hunt’s farewell reception last Friday where the Diplomat called for, among other things, constitutional reform […]