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Two new permanent Passport offices outside of Georgetown will be constructed in 2017. Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix made the announcement this morning during the consideration of the budget estimates for Citizenship and Immigration Services Programme under the Ministry of the Presidency. Mr. Felix explained that a provision of $50 Million will go towards the construction […]
The Guyana Police Force is reporting that it has seized a total of 96 weapons for the year so far. Of that number, 42 were pistols, 28 were revolvers, 24 were shotguns and 2 were rifles. The statement did not indicate where the various weapons were seized or under what circumstances. However, the Police Force also […]
Guyana’s Opposition party, the People’s Progressive Party has announced that it is supporting the call by a number of stakeholders for urgent talks on the national budget measures before the budget is passed and signed into law. The Private Sector Commission, the Guyana Trades Union Congress and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana […]
President David Granger has offered no Presidential pardons for 2016 because many of those being recommended and seeking pardon do not meet the criteria set out for the second chance. Speaking on the weekly programme, The Public Interest, the President made it clear that cocaine traffickers, murderers and persons convicted of other serious and violent […]
There is a new UN Secretary General in place and Guyana is still awaiting word from the now former Secretary General Ban Ki Moon about his assessment of the Guyana/Venezuela border controversy. Mr. Ban had promised to submit his assessment of the situation with Guyana and Venezuela before he leaving office this month. Former Portuguese […]
(BBC) The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, has used his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech to call for the world to “rethink” the war on drugs. He said the zero-tolerance policy might be “even more harmful” than all the other wars being fought worldwide. Mr Santos’s government and the country’s biggest rebel group, the […]
(BBC) The Venezuelan government has announced it will replace the country’s highest-denomination banknotes with coins within 72 hours. It hopes swapping the 100-bolivar notes will help to stop smuggling and tackle shortages of food and other items. President Nicolas Maduro says gangs operating in border areas will not have time to repatriate the notes. His […]
Tributes have been paid to the Chapecoense players who died in a plane crash in Colombia on the final day of the Brazilian football season. The LaMia plane ran out of fuel and crashed near Medellin, killing 71 people, including most of the team. In stadiums across Brazil, fans from all the top division clubs […]
Members of the Guyanese diaspora are being encouraged to return to their homeland and invest in the villages all across the country. The challenge was thrown out by President David Granger as he opened a new $130 Million gas station and shopping complex in the community of Buxton on the East Coast of Demerara. The […]
2016 is set to become the deadliest year on the country’s roadways and two more persons were added to the road fatality list on Sunday night. A planned trip to the seawalls for a group of motorcyclists turned deadly when one of them slammed into a suspected drunk pedestrian. Both of them died on the […]
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