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A number of Members of Parliament for the opposition, Peoples Progressive Party joined scores of sugar workers from the Wales Estate outside Parliament Buildings on Thursday as they launched a protest action against government’s decision to close the 100-year-old sugar factory. The sugar workers engaged in a silent protest and held placards that demanded a rethink of […]
The Board of Governors of the Guyana Revenue Authority has announced that it has decided to cut all ties with Commissioner General of the GRA, Khurshid Sattaur. Mr. Sattaur was sent on 200 days leave two weeks ago as the GRA prepared for an audit of its operations. In a statement on Thursday, the GRA […]
Investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident which occurred moments before sunrise on Thursday on the Goedverwagting Railway Embankment Road. Dead is 38-year-old beautician, Laurel Forde of Prince William Street, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara. Police said investigations have revealed that Forde was driving a motor vehicle allegedly at a fast rate when she lost […]
Former Miss Trinidad and Tobago Nicole Dyer-Griffith has teamed up with one of the foremost names in fashion in Guyana, Sonia Noel, to introduce her motivational women empowerment series, Oxygen (O2N) with Nicole, to Guyanese women. Already, the Ministry of Social Protection, Social Cohesion and private sector stakeholders are on board to fund and support […]
Following complaints about police ranks in their private vehicles carrying out police duties, the Guyana Police Force is reminding members of the public that police ranks in plain clothes and in unmarked vehicles, are not authorized to stop motorists except when they are performing their duties on the roadway in front of a police station. […]
Former President Bharrat Jagdeo who leads the People’s Progressive Party in parliament as the Opposition Leader has shot down reports that there is a rift between himself and the current General Secretary of the party, Clement Rohee. Reports have surfaced that moves may be afoot by some in the PPP to have Mr. Rohee replaced […]
Permanent staffing of the US Drug Enforcement Agency office in Guyana should now be in place by February 15, according to US Ambassador, Perry Holloway. The Embassy was hoping for the office to be fully in place by January 15, but the Ambassador said the definite date is now in the month of February. Appearing on the […]
At least four Guyanese nationals died and at least three others are suspected to have suffered the same fate, after the boat they were traveling in from neighbouring Venezuela slammed into another boat, resulting in all of the passengers being thrown overboard. The incident took place just off the Orinoco River early on Monday morning […]
A scoping mission from the World Bank’s Stolen Assets Recovery Agency is currently in Guyana to lend support to the government in the recovery of state assets which have been stolen or diverted to uses other than intended. State Minister Joseph Harmon reported today on the visiting delegation’s presence and said the government is encouraged […]
Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo has stepped up his criticism of the government for announcing the closure of the Wales estate and he intends to reach out to the government on the issue even as he is concerned that the administration is not taking the recommendations from its own Commission of Inquiry report into […]
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