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Jagdeo welcomes public service bonus but says workers are worse off with no retroactive increase

Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo has welcomed the announcement of the $50,000 one-off tax-free bonus for public servants earning less than $500,000 per month, but he believes that with public servants not given the 5% salary increase retroactive to January, they might be worst off. During the PPP’s time in office, it would impose […]

Serious crimes decline since launch of Operation Dragnet -Police Force

The Guyana Police Force on Monday reported that although serious crimes remain a big problem confronting law enforcement, there has been a reduction in criminal activity since the launch of the joint services “operation dragnet” However, at the end of November 2015 the Guyana Police Force had already recorded a 9% increase in serious crimes […]

Guysuco surpasses 2015 sugar production target

(GINA)  The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has exceeded its production target for 2015 by over 300 tonnes as of this morning. With three estates still grinding, the corporation is likely to add a few more thousand tonnes to its total. The second crop target was set at 146,300 tonnes and this morning the production figure […]

21-year-old bandit shot by police during Grove robbery

A 21-year-old man from Stevedore Housing Scheme in Georgetown is nursing gunshot wounds after he was shot by police in an early morning stand off in the Grove community on the East Bank of Demerara. The young man who has been identified as Devon Forde, and his accomplice had just robbed a Grove resident after […]

President announces subvention for Sophia Literacy Programme

President David Granger delighted children enrolled in the Sophia Literacy Programme when he turned up at their annual Christmas party, hosted at Congress Place, earlier on Saturday , and distributed 21 bicycles donated to his ‘three Bs’ programme. The President handed over the bicycles, donated by Mr. Komal Singh, Managing Director of GAICO Construction Incorporated […]