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Finance Minister Winston Jordan has started consultations for the 2016 National Budget. According to a statement from the Finance Ministry, Minister Jordan and his budget team hosted a high level meeting with the Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Major General (Rtd) Norman Mc.Lean and other executives of the PSC. The meeting took place […]
A Guyanese woman who lives in East La Penitence was taken into the custody of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit after she was busted at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport with just over 25 pounds of cocaine. The bust took place early Thursday morning as the woman was preparing to board a New York bound Caribbean […]
The Law Department of the University of Guyana has been plunged into mourning following the death of the Head of the department, Professor Sheldon McDonald. Mr. McDonald passed away on Wednesday night at a city hospital where he was nursing injuries from a vehicular accident which took place last Friday at Success on the East […]
Though she is still not sure, the mother of 19-year-old Kavita Ackloo has opened up about the apparent reasons for her daughter taking her own life along with her boyfriend on Monday. The body of the Cummings Lodge teen along with that of her boyfriend, Ramesh Beharry was found on Monday afternoon on the foreshore […]
Police investigators in the Norfolk, Virginia are still probing the shooting of a young Guyanese woman outside a suburban complex two Sundays ago. The young woman has been identified as 33-year-old Naminatha Henry. According to reports, she had just dropped a friend home after a girl’s night out at the club and was driving out of the area […]
On the morning after six armed motorcycle riding bandits carried out a brazen robbery in the busy America Street area, Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud gave the Force’s commitment to continuing with the efforts to tackle the crime problem in the country. The Commissioner was swamped by reporters outside the Arthur Chung Conference Centre on Wednesday […]
President David Granger on Wednesday said investigations are ongoing and his government will be taking more decisive actions in the near future to address the high incidents of suicides and criminal activates which continues to result in the loss of lives. He told media operatives that his government will be taking on the responsibility of […]
The Private Sector Commission has broken its silence on the enforcement of the laws that force nightclub and bar owners to close their operations by 2:00am and the PSC is hoping that the Public Security Minister could reassess the situation and give an extension. In a statement on Wednesday, the PSC said it has observed […]
Opposition Chief Whip in Parliament, Gail Teixeira believes that the APNU+AFC administration has exacerbated the problems facing the local sugar and rice industry by its response, which she believes may be adequate. The opposition People’s Progressive Party has been firing off at the government over complaints from sugar workers that their request for increases is […]
A 31-year-old police officer attached to the Leonora Police station remains in emergency care at the Georgetown Hospital after he was rushed there Tuesday evening after reportedly ingesting a poisonous substance. The policeman has been identified as Richard McBeth of Eccles, East Bank Demerara. According to reports, the man was taken to the hospital after […]
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