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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 […]
Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo has confirmed that monies have been set aside in the budget for salary increases for public servants this year, although he has not provided a figure. He said that the announcement will be made later this year. The Government last month increased the salaries of public servants by 8% across the […]
The $70 million libel suit filed by Assistant Commissioner of Police, Calvin Brutus against former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Paul Slowe was dismissed today by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall. Last April, Mr Brutus filed a Statement of Claim in the High Court for damages in excess of $60M, in addition to $10M for aggravated […]
Faced with criticism over the appointment of an Operations Coordinator without the knowledge of the rest of the Elections Commission, the Commission’s Chairman is clarifying her position. In a statement today, GECOM indicated that the Commission’s IT Officer was seconded to the new position on request of the Chief Elections Officer. According to GECOM, the […]
Four days after the $781.9B Budget was presented to the National Assembly, some of the country’s vendors in the capital city of Georgetown seem unmoved with the majority of them telling News Source that regardless of its magnitude, they still have to get up and go to work to earn an honest dollar. For them, […]
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