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The Guyana Police Force’s Traffic Department has announced that with effect from Thursday and up until Christmas Eve Day, traffic along Regent Street will only be allowed to proceed in a western direction, effectively only allowing one-way traffic along the street for the next four days. During an online radio interview today, Traffic Chief, Senior […]
President Irfaan Ali has encouraged the country’s business community to continue investing and moving forward with their business plans as normal, even as the country is dealing with external threats from neighboring Venezuela. Speaking at the Private Sector Commission’s Gala Dinner and Award Ceremony on Tuesday night, the President said despite the threats to the […]
In a majority decision during an extraordinary meeting this morning, the Georgetown City Council approved a 6.5% across the board salary increase for its more than 500 workers. The Council, in a unanimous decision, also agreed to pay its workers a $25,000 one-off bonus for the holiday season. The Council’s Finance Committee had recommended a […]
More than a month after he went on the run after brutally stabbing his wife to death in the Sunset View Hotel in Georgetown, Corentyne resident Sadesh Appadu, has died. The man reportedly turned up at the home of a relative recently after ingesting a poisonous substance. He was later found dead. In a statement […]
Police on the West Coast of Berbice are investigating the murder of 27-year-old Dwayne Byass called ‘Eddo’, of Golden Fleece, West Coast Berbice. The self-employed man was stabbed to death this afternoon at Paradise on the West Coast of Berbice during a domino game at a shop. A police statement on the murder indicated that […]
The Guyana Prison Service has announced that female prisoners who are currently being housed at the New Amsterdam Prison, will be moved to the Timehri Prison on Wednesday. The move is a temporary one. The women offenders will be housed at Timehri while construction works are being carried out at the New Amsterdam jail to […]
So far for this year, the Guyana Fire Service has responded to 510 building fires and some 807 grass fires, the Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn announced today. He made the statement today while responding to questions from Opposition Member of Parliament Geeta Chandan-Edmond as he justified the allocation of an additional $24M in […]
Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha today defended Government’s decision to continuously bail out the cash-strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), telling the Committee of Supply in the National Assembly, that the recently reopened Rose Hall Estate will be one of the most productive estates, despite its current underperformance. At the time, Minister Mustapha was defending the […]
Opposition Member of Parliament, Amanza Walton-Desir today grilled Foreign Affairs Minister, Hugh Todd on the Argyle Declaration that came out of the talks between President Irfaan Ali and Venezuela’s President, Nicolas Maduro last week in St. Vincent. During today’s sitting of the National Assembly, the Opposition MP submitted that while the Argyle Declaration addresses the […]
The Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir today blocked a Motion that was filed by the Opposition which was seeking to establish a multi-stakeholder Task Force to address issues arising out of the Venezuela/Guyana Border Controversy. A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Member of Parliament, David Patterson, in tabling the […]
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