By News Source Guyana on August 3, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
The People’s Progressive Party believes that the new APNU+AFC government should not be considering any raise of pay for Ministers and Advisors who have only been on the job for just three months and who would have not had their performance assessed. Speaking at his Monday morning press conference, the General Secretary of the PPP, […]
By News Source Guyana on August 3, 2015
News, Politics
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Clement Rohee has defended his purchase of prime sea side land for $1. 5 Million while he served as Minister under the last government. Rohee who told the media that as a government Minister, his monthly salary was $579,000, said the land was offered to him and he bought […]
By News Source Guyana on August 3, 2015
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The Maritime Administration Department has announced that a search operation is underway after the locally registered ship “CAPT. SAIF” sank off the Coast of Guyana sometime between Saturday evening and Sunday evening. According to reports, the vessel departed from Georgetown at approximately 07:00am on Saturday August 1st, 2015, with a consignment of general cargo. The […]
By News Source Guyana on August 2, 2015
News, Sports
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) – A visually impaired cricketer, visiting St Lucia for a blind cricket tournament, died during a beach outing, organizers of the tournament have confirmed. He has been identified as Gordon Sandiford, 28, who was a member of the Guyana team. An official of the St Lucia Blind Welfare Association (SLBWA) said […]
By News Source Guyana on August 2, 2015
News, Politics
The Government of Venezuela has now taken issue with Guyana’s decision to gazette the regulated coordinates for the Essequibo river. On Thursday, Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge announced in the National Assembly, the coordinates for the river baselines for the three main rivers being regulated and gazetted. But the Venezuelan government has rejected […]
By News Source Guyana on August 2, 2015
News, Politics
After distancing himself from his former bodyguard of four days, former Attorney General Anil Nandlall has now declared that the man’s arrest was “much ado about nothing”. The former bodyguard, Rajput Narine, was arrested by the police as they widened their investigations into the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing who was gunned down in […]
By News Source Guyana on August 1, 2015
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Police investigators were called early this morning to the East Coast Demerara village of Montrose after the lifeless body of seventy-six -year old Carmen Ganesh was found sprawled on her kitchen floor with a wound to the head. Investigators suspect that the woman was murdered during a home invasion. There are reports that she may […]
By News Source Guyana on August 1, 2015
News, Politics
(Trinidad Express) TRINIDAD and Tobago and Guyana have agreed to a Joint Commission to initiate and oversee collaboration in construction, education, business and other areas where it would be mutually beneficial to deepen ties. The Office of the Prime Minister, in a release yesterday on the visit to T&T by Guyana President Brig David […]
By News Source Guyana on July 31, 2015
News, Politics
The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban-Ki-Moon and President David Granger held a telephone conversation on Thursday about the ongoing controversy involving Venezuela’s claims to Guyana’s territory and maritime area. The teleconference was a follow up of the meeting between the two which took place on the margins of the Conference of Heads of Government […]
By News Source Guyana on July 31, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
The National Assembly has suspended the annual recess which Members of Parliament (MPs) enjoy annually, to make provisions for the presentation of the 2015 National Budget and the consideration of the estimates of revenue and expenditure that follows. Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge moved the motion which suspended Standing Order #9 of the Parliament. Standing Order […]