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The Board of Directors of the state-owned Guyana National Newspapers Limited which publishes the Guyana Chronicle and Sunday Chronicle, announced today that it has sacked the General Manager and Editor with immediate effect. According to a statement from the Board, the unanimous decision was made at a meeting on Tuesday December 1, 2015 to discontinue […]
Cabinet has approved the reinstatement of tax-free overtime benefits for all workers currently employed in Guyana’s bauxite industry. The decision was taken at Tuesday’s meeting of Cabinet and announced on Wednesday by State Minister Joe Harmon. Workers in the bauxite industry had enjoyed the benefits from 1998 up to 2007 when it came to a […]
The opposition People’s Progressive Party has raised concerns over the appointment of some 30 persons in the United States of America and Canada to serve as Advisers on Diaspora Affairs to the government. The opposition party on Wednesday criticized what it said was a lack of transparency in the appointment of these individuals. The PPP was […]
Thirty-three year old, Guyanese national, Broderick Owen Layne is now an inmate of the Brooklyn Metro Detention Centre after he was busted at New York’s JFK Airport with a quantity of cocaine in his carry on suitcase. The man, who lived in Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara, arrived on a flight from Guyana on November […]
The Guyana Government on Wednesday announced the start of a joint service operation to combat any terrorist or other criminal threat that Guyana may confront over the next six months. The operation which is code-named “Dragnet” commenced on December 1, 2015 and will run until June 2016. State Minister Joseph Harmon told media operatives during […]
Digicel Guyana has denied reports from GTT that it has blocked its customers from accessing the GTT Mobile Money app on their Digicel devices. In a full page advertisement on Tuesday, GTT said it has noted “with concern what seems to be an action by Digicel Guyana to restrict its customers from accessing Mobile Money”. […]
Stigma and discrimination continue to be one of the pervasive barriers to HIV care and treatment in Guyana where an estimated 1.5% of the general population is infected with the virus. Guyana joined the rest of the world today in observance of World AIDS Day and while Director of the National AIDS Programme Secretariat, (NAPS) […]
The Guyana Police Force has launched an investigation into an early evening robbery and shooting that took place just outside the Bourda market at the corner of Regent Street and Orange Walk. City Constable Aaron Henderson was accompanying city employee Euril Lowenfield just after 6pm on Monday when two motorcycle riding bandits attacked them and […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the appointment of Guyanese national, Catherine Pollard as the Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management. She will succeed Tegegnework Gettu of Ethiopia, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his dedicated service and able leadership. According to the UN Secretary General’s office, since 2014, Ms. Pollard served […]
Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has said that while sugar workers, both in the field and factory, must be commended for their record production this year, the state of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) remains a matter of concern for government. The Prime Minister said he was happy that workers who were engaged in two strike […]
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