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The Georgetown Mayor and City Council has announced that it would be moving to close several city thoroughfares to heavy duty vehicles as it continues its road assessment exercise that began on Tuesday. The Office of the Town Clerk said the assessment is expected to allow the municipality to go ahead with road works services […]
Following a second round of applications and interviews for the top post within the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Public Accountant and Attorney-at-Law Godfrey Statia has been appointed the new Commissioner General. The Board has confirmed the appointment with one member saying that Statia had emerged the best suited candidate for the position. “Of course there […]
The Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) on Tuesday afternoon erected barricades to the entrance of the Muneshwers wharf in Georgetown, preventing container trucks from entering or leaving unless a fee of $25,000 is paid to the Council. The exercise by the M&CC is being carried out one week after the Council issued a notice in […]
A worried wife is hoping, against the odds, for the safe return of her husband who went missing 10 days ago in the North Fork area in Region #7, Cuyuni Mazaruni where he had gone to work. Forty seven-year- old Shawn Clarke left his North Street, Georgetown home on June 15 to travel to the […]
Just over two dozen People’s Progressive Party (PPP) supporters picketed outside the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) head office in Georgetown on Tuesday as the party continues to reject its defeat at the 2015 national elections. Light midday showers dampened the planned protest action that lasted just under one hour and saw the absence of several […]
Hours after the National Assembly debated and passed the Telecommunications Bill with the aim of liberalizing the sector, Digicel Guyana welcomed the move by the legislature. In a statement on Tuesday, Digicel’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kevin Kelly said the passage of the bill is the first step in the long overdue ending of the […]
Police have issued a wanted bulletin for Mark Prince aka ‘Fine Man’ for questioning in relation to the offence of robbery under arms. Back in January, Prince was charged and remanded to prison on an armed robbery charge. The 36-year-old of Lot 169 James and Curtis Streets, Albouystown, Georgetown at that time denied the charge […]
The long awaited Telecommunications Bill was hailed as a “landmark” piece of legislation on Monday by Telecommunications Minister Catherine Hughes as she initiated what turned out to be a lengthy debate in the National Assembly. Despite opposition MPs rejecting the Bill in its current form and recommending that it be sent to a Special Select […]
The Parliamentary Committee of Appointments has named two nominees for the position of Director and Deputy Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). In its Second Report, tabled in the National Assembly on Monday, the Committee named Mathew Edward Hugh Langevine as the most suitable candidate for the position of Director of the FIU. The report […]
Six women from the Dominican Republic appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Monday and were charged and fined for overstaying their time in Guyana and forging work permits in their passports. The women who are all strippers at the recently raided Rio Night Club pleaded guilty to the charges and were each fined $20,000 […]
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