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The United States Embassy in Georgetown announced on Thursday that it is unable to print visas at this time due to a persistent hardware failure in a State Department facility in the United States which started on June 9. The Embassy has asked that all applicants who were asked to pick up their passports on […]
A gold miner died this afternoon following a mining pit collapse at Jumbie Creek in the Mahdia community. Another miner is in a critical condition. The names of the two miners have not been released. The incident reportedly took place just after 12 noon on Thursday as the miners were in the pit digging for […]
The opposition People’s Progressive Party is pleading with the new APNU+AFC government to ensure Guyana enacts, earliest, amended Anti – Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing legislation, lest the country is exposed to more international pressure. The call comes at a time when the PPP continues to reject its demotion to opposition status, after 23 years in […]
Police investigators are probing the death of a 27-year-old man from the Meadowbrook area who was gunned down in his house just after returning home last evening after a night out with his girlfriend. The incident reportedly took place just before midnight. The dead man has been identified as Jason Cort. He worked at the […]
Dozens of patients were left unattended at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Wednesday when the dismissal of the Director of Nursing Services Colleen Hicks sparked a massive protest outside the facility. Scores of Nurses and other health care professionals abandoned their patients and posts as they demanded the matron’s reinstatement. News Source was informed […]
The President David Granger administration has decided to ditched the plans by the previous government to construct a specialty hospital and instead use the funds that would have gone to that project to upgrade existing hospitals and health institutions across the country. The decision was made at Tuesday’s cabinet meeting and announced earlier today by […]
The Guyana Government has officially raised the new territorial claim by Venezuela into its oil rich maritime area with the United States Government. Vice President and Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge met with U.S Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, Roberta Jacobson on Tuesday where he lobbied for US support against Venezuela’s aggression. During […]
The recent trip to Brooklyn, New York by three government ministers and other officials of the APNU+AFC administration to participate in a unity rally was fully funded by the organisers of the rally, according to Minister of State Joe Harmon, who was also one of the ministers on the trip. At a post cabinet press […]
The new government continues to be confronted with the challenges of inheriting a cash strapped and “poorly managed” sugar industry. On Tuesday, during a Cabinet meeting, the government agreed to immediately release a total of $3.8 billion as a bail out for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo). Minister of State Joseph Harmon confirmed the approval […]
While accusing the opposition People’s Progressive Party of leaving a problem plagued and almost bankrupt sugar industry behind, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo declared that the opposition party must now come to the table with government and the trade unions and discuss and find a way forward for the survival of the industry. Speaking at the […]
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