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A 47-year-old Belfield Squatting area woman was found murdered on Monday. An ex-lover is the prime suspect, according to the Police. The Guyana Police Force last evening announced that investigations have been launched into the murder of Nazaleen Mohammed. The woman’s lifeless body was found in a canal yesterday afternoon at Hope Lowlands along the […]
President Irfaan Ali this morning called on Caribbean countries that have the potential in natural gas development to quickly explore exploiting it to avert a possible catastrophic situation in the region. Addressing the opening of the Trinidad and Tobago Energy Conference in Port-of-Spain this morning, the President said the region is already facing an energy […]
Three GDF Officer Cadets on a training programme in Tacama, Upper Demerara-Berbice have been reported missing. The Guyana Defence Force has launched a massive search operation for them. A senior GDF Official confirmed to News Source that the three cadets were part of a navigational training exercise and it is suspected that they might have […]
The Guyana Revenue Authority, (GRA) has dismissed a number of its employees and disciplined others who were fingered in a license sales racket at the agency. The tax collection body said it recently uncovered a number of fraudulent practices involving persons applying for various categories of licenses and collusion with some of its staff members. […]
Opposition Member of Parliament Amanza Walton- Desir, who overlooks foreign affairs matter, took the government to task over its handling of the country’s foreign policy. Though she criticized the budget as being anti-poor and anti-working class, she said the country also cannot ignore the clear and present danger that it is faced with regarding the […]
Some 7,000 persons will be trained under the Board of Industrial Training Programme (BIT) for 2023, Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton told the National Assembly today. “Mr Speaker, Budget 2023 provides for us to train about 7,000 persons,” Minister Hamilton said while noting that the country has moved from a place where it had no […]
Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton today disclosed today that 21 persons were killed at their place of work in 2022. Minister Hamilton made the disclosure while defending the Government’s 2023 National Budget. Focusing on his labour portfolio, MP Hamilton said the figure represents a 20% reduction in work place deaths when compared to the number […]
Kickstarting the 2023 budget debate in the National Assembly with a rendition of ‘the Song of Guyana’s Children,’ Opposition Member of Parliament , Nima Flue-Bless railed into the Government for presenting, what she described as a very “uninspiring, hopeless, misleading, and troubling” Budget. The APNU+AFC Member of Parliament told the House, that since the return […]
Two women, ages 24 and 25, lost their lives on Sunday by drowning at Feather Beach on the Essequibo Coast. The two women have been identified as Akeeisha Tyrell and Kawattie Lallbachan, The incident took place on Sunday after just after 3 o’clock. A family member of one of the dead women, said they were […]
The debate of the 2023 National Budget opens this morning and is expected to wrap up by Friday night. The start of the debates comes one week after the presentation of the $781.9 billion budget which focuses heavily on infrastructural works and development. The Government has been on a media blitz in its defence of […]
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