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Minister of Foreign Affairs and member of the Civic arm of the PPP Civic alliance, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett said she has still not given much thought to whether she would accept a Prime Ministerial candidate position for the PPP Civic elections campaign simply because she has not been asked about it. Speaking at a recent press […]
President Donald Ramotar has announced that the Guyana Power and Light Company will reduce the costs for electricity to consumers by 10% from March, 2015. The President’s announcement came just two weeks after the government announced that it had asked the state owned power company to revisit its rates as the cost for oil tumbled […]
After serving as Guyana’s Prime Minister for over two decades, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds says he has lost no interest in retaining the post for as long as Guyanese would let him. Speculation is rife as it relates to who the ruling People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) will field as its Prime Ministerial Candidate for […]
Unions representing the interest of workers at the University of Guyana (UG) have indicated that plans are afoot to escalate the industrial action at the Turkeyen Campus from a ‘sit in’ to a full blown strike commencing Monday. Staff agreed to congregate at the main gate at the University but not go into offices or […]
(NATION News) THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Guyanese national Dennis France was arrested and charged with drug offences for cocaine. And further investigations by police led to the arrest of compatriot Lloydanna Morris, 23. France, who lives in Rendezvous, Christ Church, was charged with possession of cocaine, possession with intent to supply, trafficking and acts preparatory for the trafficking […]
(Barbados Advocate) WHEN it comes to the idea of Barbados and the Caribbean looking to invest in Guyana, Brigadier (Retired) David Granger, MSS, MP, Opposition Leader of Guyana, has noted that the door is indeed open. “The door is open, there is no hindrance, there is no obstruction and we hope to facilitate this kind […]
The Justice for All Party (JFAP) has once again joined forces with the opposition coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), but this time, the party says it has no demands or expectations of the partnership outside of unseating the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) at the May 11 elections. Jaipaul Sharma who once represented […]
(BVI News) Two Guyanese women have been arrested and charged following an operation in which police allegedly found two guns – an AK47 assault rifle and a 9mm Taurus handgun. During the operation, which took place at a Butu Mountain home on Tortola yesterday (February 5, 2015), the cops also recovered ammunition. Those charged are […]
The Guyana Revenue Authority has announced that it has withdrawn tax evasion charges against Kaieteur News publisher Glenn Lall, his wife Bhena Lall and the re-migrant couple, Narootandeo and Gharbassi Brijnanan. The four were charged back in October in connection with the importation of two luxury lexus Sports Utility vehicles by the Brijnanans. The couple used the […]
The former personal assistant to the Junior Agriculture Minister who is also a former drug enforcement agent, was on Friday slapped with drug trafficking charges. The man, Kenroy Joseph was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates Court. The police case is that Joseph worked along with two others in an attempt […]
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