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A total of $350 million was approved by Members of Parliament (MPs) on Monday to feed prisoners across Guyana during this year. The sum was approved as MPs considered the estimates of expenditure for the Public Security Ministry, inclusive of the Guyana Prison and Fire Service and the Police Force. Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan […]
U.S President Barack Obama has written to President David Granger expressing best wishes as Guyana observes its 46th Republic Anniversary and praising the return of local government elections in Guyana. Local Government Elections will take place on March 18, 2015. The last time local government elections took place was back in 1994. In a letter […]
Speaker of the National Assembly Dr. Barton Scotland has upheld a decision by outgoing Chief Justice Ian Chang, who ruled on Friday that Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix and Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Keith Scott, ought not to sit in the National Assembly as technocrats. The Chief Justice, who was on retirement […]
Newspaper Columnist and Political Activist Freddie Kissoon is not totally satisfied with the arrest and charging of three men who assaulted him six years ago. On Monday, he called on police investigators to do much more to ensure historic justice for other cases involving political violence. “The police need to go beyond me,” said Kissoon […]
Former Presidential Spokesman under the PPP, Kwame McKoy, former Office of the President staffer, Jason Abdulla and self-confessed death squad member, Sean Hinds, were all granted bail in the sum of $100,000 each when they appeared in court this morning and were charged with the unlawful assault of newspaper columnist Freddie Kissoon. The charges stemmed […]
The Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry believes that the politician was assassinated as part of a state sponsored operation. The founder of the Working People’s Alliance was killed back in 1980 when a bomb exploded as he sat in a car in Georgetown. Although there was always suspicion that the then PNC government had knowledge […]
Guyana’s Attorney General Basil Williams is disturbed by the recent judgment of outgoing Chief Justice (ag.) Ian Chang and the manner in which it was made. Justice Chang who proceeded on retirement leave earlier this year, came off of that leave to rule that two Government Ministers, Winston Felix and Keith Scott could not sit as technocrat […]
Outgoing Chief Justice Ian Chang has ruled that Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix and Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Keith Scott, ought not to sit in the National Assembly as technocrats because their names were on the list of candidates for a political party. The two were selected as Technocrat Ministers and became […]
Three local immigration officers and a security guard attached to Roraima Airways were on Friday charged and remanded to prison in connection with the discovery of a quantity of cocaine in the baggage hold of a Dynamic Airways jet which arrived at New York’s JFK Airport from Georgetown, Guyana. All four individuals pleaded not guilty […]
The Board of the Guyana Power and Light company has decided to fire the interim Chief Executive Officer of the company, Colin Welch. Two senior Government officials have confirmed the firing by the board and have indicated that the reason may have to do with recent decisions taken by the interim CEO regarding the awarding of […]
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