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Former Guyanese High Commissioner to Canada Harry Narine Nawbatt is suing the coalition government for $49M over what he contends is his wrongful dismissal and a breached contractual agreement he had with the previous PPP/C administration. Nawbatt, who left his Diplomatic post last year to come home and campaign for the PPP during the elections, believes […]
Guyana’s Attorney General, Basil Williams, has rubbished a report in the Kaieteur News that the Government has paid a $1 Billion settlement to the BK Company over the decision to end the company’s contract for management of the Haags Bosch dumpsite. In a statement on Friday evening, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil […]
With a continued emphasis on player development, Canada Soccer has organised a Men’s EXCEL U-23 camp featuring an international match against Guyana. The 2016 camp will feature players born 1993 or later. The international match is 15th May against Guyana’s national “A” squad, better known as the Jaguars. Guyana is currently preparing for Caribbean Cup […]
In wake of allegations that the Minister of State, Joe Harmon, recently attempted to interfere in a GRA operation involving the Chinese company, BaiShanLin, President David Granger has reinforced that it is the Minister of Finance who has direct and sole Ministerial responsibility over the Guyana Revenue Authority. While not confirming Harmon’s alleged interference attempt, […]
(Trinidad Guardian) Citizens are now paying more to travel after a 15 per cent increase in the price per litre of super gasoline and diesel went into immediate effect yesterday. Alcohol and cigarettes are also going up, a 50 per cent tax will be levied on luxury vehicles with an engine size exceeding 1999cc, and […]
(BBC) Argentine President Mauricio Macri has pledged to assert his innocence when he appears before a federal prosecutor on Friday to explain his finances. An investigation began on Thursday after it transpired Mr Macri was mentioned in the Panama Papers, leaked files of law firm Mossack Fonseca. Mr Macri said he would file a judicial […]
Six years after being charged for statutory rape of a 15 – year – old girl, former President of the Guyana Teachers Union, Colwyn King was on Friday freed of the charge. King’s trial began earlier this week before a 12-member jury in the Georgetown High Court. Ten of the 12 jurors presented a not […]
(CNN) While she’s a straight A student, she’s the first to admit that getting into so many schools didn’t come without a lot of hard work. Her studiousness is ingrained in her: Hyles spent the first decade of her life in a small village called Vryheid’s Lust in Guyana. “They were a bit more serious […]
A young Police Special Constable who was part of a Joint Services and Guyana Geology and Mines operation died on Friday in a river mishap in the Potaro river. Twenty-two year old Akeem Hyles drowned as the boat capsized in the Amatuk Falls area throwing the entire team overboard. It is unclear whether the young […]
A 29 – year – old Guyanese man is the latest person to be busted with cocaine at the John . F . Kennedy Airport in the United States. The Guyanese man, who was identified as Rajendra Ramrattan was found with 550.7 grams of the illicit substance concealed in the pocket of a pair of […]
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