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Canada’s third largest bank, The Bank of Nova Scotia is getting ready to cut its losses in the Caribbean and back in Canada and Guyana could see some cost cutting measures at the local branches. Scotia Bank intends to cut its workforce in Canada and the Caribbean by 1500 employees. Close to 500 of those job […]
As the Alliance For Change prepares to move ahead with it’s no confidence motion against the Government of Guyana, it is convinced that the Government will possibly try to “buy time” in office by proroguing the National Assembly. Once that is done, the Government will be able to function without the National Assembly meeting for up […]
Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman appears perturbed that President Donald Ramotar in his Address to the Nation on Tuesday indicated that the National Assembly will be reconvened for its first post recess Sitting on Monday, November 10. In a release issued on Wednesday morning, the Speaker said the President has no constitutional power […]
The United States Government wants to work closer with Guyana in its efforts to fight organised crime and money laundering. US Embassy Georgetown, Charge d’ Affaires Bryan Hunt on Tuesday evening told a reception at the US Ambassador’s residence that as Guyana has made important steps to fight money laundering, there will be the need […]
The Opposition group, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), has described as “cowardly”, President Donald Ramotar’s announcement on Tuesday night that he intends to dissolve the Parliament and call snap elections if the Opposition parties in the National Assembly move ahead with the no confidence motion against his administration. In a response to the President’s […]
President Donald Ramotar on Tuesday evening announced that if the Opposition parties move ahead with the no confidence motion against his administration when the National Assembly meets on Monday November 10, 2014, he will dissolve the Parliament and call early national elections. “I also wish to declare that were this not to be so, and […]
Embattled Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Tuesday released to the media, a statement he made to his senior staff at the Attorney General Chambers and while not apologising for any of the statements he made in the recorded conversation, he offered an apology to his staff for them having to deal with the “ordeal”. “This […]
Authorities in Trinidad and Tobago have completed DNA tests on the samples of the remains of a woman’s body that was found on an empty plot of land at Turkeyen on the East Coast of Demerara a few months ago. Local investigators believe the remains may be those of missing St. Stanislaus teacher Nyozi Goodman. […]
A Linden man was found hanging from a tree at Wismar, early on Tuesday morning. Investigators believe the man killed himself after stabbing his wife several times about the body and thinking that he had killed her. The woman was taken to the Mackenzie Hospital on Monday morning and the husband had not been seen […]
A 26-year-old Technician 11 attached to the Outside Plant Maintenance Department of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company lost his life on Monday afternoon while on the job in the Vryheid’s Lust area. The dead man has been identified as Vijai Gaznabbi. He was reportedly electrocuted while carrying out maintenance work on a GT&T connection box […]
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