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Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh, closed the 2025 budget debate on Thursday night in a fiery speech that went on for more than two hours, heaping criticism on the Opposition for its opposition to the $1.3 Trillion budget. In defending his budget, the Finance Minister compared his party’s record in Government to that of the […]
Opposition Member of Parliament, Volda Lawrence has called out the Government for its management of the Health sector, which has seen over $5.9 Billion in expired drugs and medications being dumped over the past two years. MP Lawrence, who served as Minister of Health under the APNU+AFC Administration, said after it took office in 2020, […]
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has announced that he will be leading a team from his party to meet with the Guyana Elections Commission, (GECOM) next Tuesday to be updated on issues related to the Commission. He said he will also use the meeting to debunk statements which have […]
Declaring that the Opposition, APNU+AFC can never be trusted, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall urged the electorate to judge the parties contesting the 2025 Elections based on their track record in Government. During his contribution to the Budget debate on Thursday, Mr. Nandlall said electoral politics are based on trust and […]
With several countries in the region affected by the US President’s Executive Order, which has frozen financial aid to other countries, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has indicated that he has not received any reports as yet about Guyana being affected. News Source understands that a number of programmes that fall under USAID are likely to […]
Two weeks after a Prison Officer at the Mazaruni jail was charged and sentenced to three years in jail after pleading guilty to an attempt to smuggle marijuana into the high security prison facility, another Prison Officer at the same jail house has been busted trying to do the same and is now facing two […]
By Svetlana Marshall Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton, brought the curtains down this evening on the Opposition’s arguments in the 2025 Budget debates. Mr. Norton told the National Assembly that the $1.3 trillion Budget fails to address the fundamental issues affecting Guyanese, while the Government continues to spend from the oil fund with no transparency. “It […]
Assistant Commissioner of Police, Calvin Brutus, who is currently on administrative leave as he fights more than 260 financial crimes charges, has accused agents of the state and the Police of surveilling his movements and trailing his vehicle. This afternoon, Mr. Brutus released a video recording on his social media page that captured the moments […]
Bandits were able to cart off an undisclosed sum of money in a late night break-in at Andrews Supermarket at Robb and Lights Street in Georgetown. A statement from the Guyana Police Force said two metal safes belonging to MoneyGram, which operates an outlet in the building, and a quantity of cash from the cash […]
Defiant representative of the Joinder party list in the National Assembly, Dr Asha Kissoon has offered her full support for the Government’s $1.3 trillion budget, declaring that the time for divisive politics must come to an end. Dr Kissoon, who sits on the Opposition side of the National Assembly, has been accused of illegally occupying […]
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