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The Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Tourism and the Ministry of Natural Resources are the government ministries that are under the radar of the new government and are currently under investigation as the probe into the fuel scam and abuse of the government credit system at the Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) widens. Minister […]
Retired Major General of the Guyana Defence Force Norman McLean has been elected as the new Chairman of the Private Sector Commission. He will serve for the next year. The PSC’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held yesterday where McLean was elected, unopposed, along with a new Executive. He has replaced Ramesh Persaud who served as […]
Former Prime Ministerial Candidate for the People’s Progressive Party, Elisabeth Harper has decided that she does not want to serve with the PPP/C in the National Assembly. In a brief interview with News Source, Ms. Harper indicated that she was offered the position as a Member of Parliament for the PPP Civic but has turned […]
The new Region 10 Administrative Council was sworn into office this morning and immediately elected former APNU Member of Parliament, Renis Morian as the Chairman of Region 10. Morian has replaced Sharma Solomon as the Chairman of the Upper Demerara/Berbice administrative region. Solomon who was the Campaign Chairman for the APNU+AFC coalition in the region […]
The question of the appointment of the substantive Chancellor of the Judiciary remains a sore point and government will have to find a way to address this issue, according to Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams. Williams has clarified that there is only one vacancy and that is the Chancellor’s position. […]
Guyana intends to seek the help of the British government in reforming the Guyana Police Force and give assistance to the security sector. President David Granger has announced that the government has already approached the British government seeking to reintroduce the Security Sector Reform Programme which was scrapped under the previous administration. The President told […]
Three men appeared in court yesterday and were charged for the gunning down murder of accountant Jason Cort. The 27 year old accountant was shot dead in his Meadowbrook house two weeks ago when he came face to face with the intruders just after returning home with his girlfriend. The three men who have been […]
Former Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry and former Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Jo-Ann Barlow were today sworn in as Puisne Judges by President David Granger during a brief ceremony at the President’s Office. Both women have given several years of service to the public in the legal field and were tipped to be promoted just […]
Almost a week after the Minister of State, Joe Harmon revealed that a number of officials of the former government and their relatives had abused the Guyoil government credit system, the General Secretary of the PPP is challenging Harmon to “be a man” and release the names of the persons. At his Monday morning press briefing, […]
The main opposition, People’s Progressive Party has selected the 32 persons from its list of candidates who will now go on to represent the party in the National Assembly. PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee on Monday morning announced that the party has finalized the selection of its new Members of Parliament but he refused to […]
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