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The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) on Friday signed off on three contracts totaling US$422 Million for the construction of transmission lines and five new substations to support the Gas-to-Energy Project. Acting Chief Executive Officer of GPL, Kesh Nandlall signed on behalf of the power company. The deal represents the single largest investment by […]
A 23-year-old unemployed man from Bent Street, Wortmanville was charged and granted bail in the sum of $2.4 Million on 25 counts of simple larceny and 23 counts of Conspiracy to commit computer related fraud. The charges are in relation to the theft of over $36.4 million from the joint account of a couple. The […]
General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Lincoln Lewis, believes Labour Minister, Joseph Hamilton, has demonstrated a misunderstanding of his role or arrogance that is common among some politicians with his recent statements about Guyanese workers. During a recent community meeting in Haslington on the East Coast of Demerara, the Labour Minister warned […]
Acting Chief Justice, Roxane George on Thursday said Guyana’s electoral laws are “all over the place”, hinting at the need for further amendments to correct many of the troubling and confusing issues. “The election laws are all over the place. It is very hard to manage, to navigate them,” she said. Justice George made the […]
Lateness and absenteeism are among the reasons given by Teleperformance for closing down one of its operations in Guyana, Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo has revealed. Teleperformance, which is one of the largest call centre companies in Guyana recently closed its Robb and Camp Street location in Georgetown. The company laid off more than 800 workers […]
Two Brazilian nationals, a Cuban national and a Guyanese were arrested on Thursday as part of a major probe into a gold smuggling operation. In a statement on Thursday evening, the Special Organised Crime Unit said the four were arrested as SOCU agents successfully intercepted an alleged gold smuggling attempt in an intelligence led operation. […]
The family of fireman, Voshaun Manbodh, who passed away at the Georgetown Hospital two weeks ago while nursing injuries sustained in the Mae’s School fire, is moving to the Court over his death. The family is dissatisfied with the outcome of an investigation that was conducted into his care and treatment at the Georgetown Hospital, […]
As the road expansion works continue along the railway embankment road on the East Coast of Demerara, the Ministry of Public Works has taken a decision to block all trucks from using the road. Works Minister, Juan Edghill, was on site overlooking the road works this morning as a temporary bridge was reopened at Strathspey. […]
Two weeks after a devastating fire gutted a section of the Critchlow Labour College in Georgetown, the General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Lincoln Lewis, said the union strongly believes that the fire was an act of arson. The College is owned by the GTUC, which was headquartered at the same location. […]
Blindsided by the 38% tariffs that the United States has imposed on products from Guyana, the Government of Guyana is now engaging US officials on those tariffs in an effort to better understand the reason behind them and seek a way forward. At his weekly press conference this afternoon, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said that […]
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