By News Source Guyana on October 21, 2022
News, Politics
The Ministry of Housing’s steel rod and cement subsidy for homebuilders will be rolled out next Tuesday and applications can be made to access the subsidy from the same day. During an appearance on the JumpStart morning show today, Minister of Housing and Water Colin Croal said anyone who owns their own land, whether it […]
By News Source Guyana on October 21, 2022
News, Politics
The Chief Executive Office of RAMPS Logistics found himself before the Magistrates’ Court on behalf of his company which was slapped with ten charges of false tax declarations to the Guyana Revenue Authority. The CEO, Shaun Rampersaud, entered a not guilty plea to each of the 10 charges and was granted bail in the sum […]
By News Source Guyana on October 20, 2022
News, Politics
The Government of Guyana today announced that Local Government Elections will take place on the 13th March, 2023. The announcement was made this afternoon after the Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall wrote to the Chairman of the Elections Commission retired Justice Claudette Singh informing her of the appointed date. The Elections Commission Chair earlier […]
By News Source Guyana on October 20, 2022
News, Politics
The Guyana Public Service Union, (GPSU) today said it is getting tired of the Government’s disregard for public servants and the continued flouting of the Collective Labour Agreement. During a press conference today, GPSU President, Patrick Yarde said that the PPP Civic administration has failed in its obligation to meet with the workers’ union to […]
By News Source Guyana on October 20, 2022
Elections, News
The Guyana government has announced that it will be convening a national stakeholders’ consultation on the draft amendments to Guyana’s electoral laws next Tuesday. The process will be led by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance. The Ministry said the consultation is an integral element of the Government’s commitment to implement a consultative, inclusive […]
By News Source Guyana on October 20, 2022
News, Politics
The Attorneys representing the State and Ramps Logistics (Guyana) are gearing up for a legal battle over the non-issuance of a Local Content Certificate to the company, months after its application was filed. The Ramps Logistics’ case against the Minister of Natural Resources, the Director of the Local Content Secretariat and others, came up in […]
By News Source Guyana on October 19, 2022
Crime, News
Despite attempts by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack to have Magistrate Leron Daly removed from hearing the Detective Dion Bascom Cyber Crime Case, the City magistrate will be presiding over the trial early next year. Last month, the DPP wrote Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Yonette Cummings requesting that Senior Magistrate Leron […]
By News Source Guyana on October 19, 2022
News, Politics
The mother of one of the two Berbice teens who were found murdered two years ago, has died suddenly. The woman Patricia Henry, was holding out for justice for her son Isaiah Henry and his cousin Joel Henry. Their mutilated bodies were found in West Coast Berbice backdam. Family members said the mother never got […]
By News Source Guyana on October 19, 2022
News, Politics
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) hauled an absent Attorney General Anil Nandlall over the coals this morning over the premature release of the embargoed decision of the Court in the election petition case, several hours before the decision was scheduled to be handed down. On the Facebook Page of the Attorney General on Tuesday, […]
By News Source Guyana on October 19, 2022
Caribbean & International, News, Politics
The Caribbean Court of Justice today ruled that the Guyana Court of Appeal had no jurisdiction to entertain the appeal in Elections Petition No.99 which was dismissed by Acting Chief Justice, Roxanne George last year on the grounds of technicality. The ruling effectively means that Petition 99, which the Coalition saw as the base of […]