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The People’s Progressive Party does not intend to shy away from its responsibility to settle its debt with the state-owned National Communications Network. However, the party would like NCN to provide all the invoices and supporting proof of bookings for the more than $55 Million worth of television and radio ads that were aired on […]
Former Speaker of the National Assembly, Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran has added his voice to concerns being expressed about the government’s decision not to publicize the names of the youths who were pardoned last year by the President. The youths would have been nearing the completion of their prison sentences for “minor offences”, according to […]
Three months after he was asked to proceed on leave following the deadly Camp Street Prison unrest, Deputy Director of the Guyana Prison Service, Gladwin Samuels will return to the job on Monday, 6th June, 2016. Samuels will immediately take on the role of Acting Director of Prisons as the Director will be on overseas assignment. […]
The Guyanese developers of the recently launched, all Guyana app, Directory.GY, have emerged as one of five winners of the PitchIT Caribbean Challenge which wrapped up on Saturday in Montego Bay, Jamaica. According to a statement from the developers, the lone Guyanese mobile application, triumphed over 20 other regional mobile applications for one of the […]
The Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness (CADVA) group announced on Friday that it is working to coordinate services and help for child survivors of domestic homicide. Director of CADVA Dianne Madray said under the new project the group has already began working with eight families across the country and is collecting data of surviving children […]
Police investigators and members of the bomb squad were on Saturday night called to the Saffon Street office of Kaieteur News after a grenade was found close to the car of the newspaper’s publisher Glenn Lall. The discovery was made as staffers congregated for a wake in memory of their fallen colleague, Dale Andrews. Mr. […]
A motorcyclist in his early twenties died on Friday night in the town of Linden after slamming in to a motorcar. The tragic accident took place along the Amelia’s Ward Public Road. Dead is 22-year-old Micheal Fox of Amelia Ward, Linden. According to Police Inspector with responsibility for traffic in the mining town, Leonard Craig, a […]
Five Corentyne, Berbice men who are all suspected of being river pirates, appeared at the Number 51 Magistrates Court in Berbice on Friday and were all remanded to prison after being charged for the murder of fisherman, Hamechand Sookdeo. The five, Ramchand Latchman, Ganesh Naidoo, Leon Sammy, Stephen Leacock and Ramesh Singh all of Corentyne, […]
(GINA) More than 150 families along the Soesdyke Linden Highway are benefitting from potable water for the first time. This is after a well was drilled and a water supply system installed in their community. Guyana Water Inc. (GWI), Executive Director for Infrastructure Planning and Implementation, Ramchand Jailal, told the Government Information Agency (GINA) that […]
During its time in government, the People’s Progressive Party racked up millions of dollars in advertising bills at the state-owned National Communications Network and never bothered to pay the bills. According to a forensic audit which was conducted by Parmesar Chartered Accountants, the PPP’s total bill stretches over $55 million. In some instances, the political […]
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