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(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A suspected bandit was shot dead by the Police at #61 Beach in Corentyne, Berbice on Wednesday just after he robbed two men of their money, jewellery and mobile phones. According to a police report, just after the incident occurred around 2:45pm, ranks on patrol caught up with the bandit and his accomplice but came […]
Local government elections will wait on no one. That is the view of Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan as he addressed the National Assembly earlier today. He declared that those elections could be held in December. Bulkan was directly responding to the opposition People’s Progressive Party which claimed that the holding of the long-awaited local […]
The National Assembly on Thursday passed the Fiscal Management and Accountability (Amendment) Bill 2015 which seeks to give financial independence to several Constitutional bodies. The Bill was first passed in 2013, when the current government held the majority in the House as the opposition but it failed to receive the assent of former President Donald […]
As Guyana continues to guard against illegal claims to its territory, a new Maritime Zones (Internal Waters and River Closing Baselines) Regulations 2015 was presented by Foreign Affairs Minister and Vice President Carl Greenidge to the National Assembly on Thursday. The regulations prescribe the closing lines across the mouths of the three largest navigable rivers […]
Guyana’s Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan has announced that the National Budget will be presented to the National Assembly on Monday, August 10. This will be the first budget to be presented since the change of government following the May 11, 2015 regional and general elections. Jordan made the announcement this afternoon during a presentation […]
Executive Member of the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Dr. Roger Luncheon on Thursday said the party has not made a decision on whether to remove former Minister Jennifer Westford from its list of Parliamentarians but is concerned about the issue of perception. Westford appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday where she pleaded […]
Former Minister of Health under the previous PPP Civic administration, Dr. Bheri Ramsarran was granted self bail this morning when he appeared at the Whim Magistrates’ Court in Berbice to answer a charge in connection with his “slap and strip” threats against women’s rights activist, Sherlina Nageer. Ramsarran appeared before Magistrate Charlyn Artiga and was […]
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