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Nine months after a fire gutted a section of the Police Headquarters Annex at Eve Leary, destroying part of a building that housed the Office of Professional Responsibility, the Guyana Fire Service has finally revealed that an electrical issue in the wooden building was the cause of the blaze. In a statement on Friday, the […]
Leader of the Alliance for Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan today joined calls for Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO), Sasenarine Singh to resign from his position or be fired, declaring that there is no future for the sugar industry under the current CEO. Ramjattan, who is also the Opposition spokesperson on Agriculture […]
Political analyst and Executive Member of the Working People’s Alliance Dr. David Hinds, has issued a call for the fair and equitable distribution of the country’s oil resources. Speaking at an Opposition coalition organized rally earlier this week in Georgetown, Dr. Hinds said there are already signs of certain sections of the Guyanese society not […]
With concerns about the literacy level among Guyanese students, the Ministry of Education has established a special department which is focusing solely on literacy. The new department already has an Assistant Chief Education Officer for Literacy overlooking its operations and plans. In a statement, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand said literacy will now receive specialised […]
High Court Judge Damone Younge this morning started to hear the case filed by the suspended Opposition Members of Parliament against the Attorney General and the Speaker of the National Assembly over their suspension. The MPs are contending that the suspension should be thrown out as questions about its fairness, legality and due process have […]
The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce & Industry (GCCI) is calling on the Local Content Secretariat of the Ministry of Natural Resources to look into the issue of contract bundling by some of the major companies in the local oil sector. Contract bundling refers to the consolidation of several contracts into a single one, thereby allowing […]
An 18-year-old labourer from the Region One community of Mabaruma was stabbed to death on Wednesday morning during an early morning argument with two other men. The murdered man was identified as Jude Christino. A statement from the Guyana Police Force indicated that the incident occurred at around 2 o’ clock on Wednesday morning at […]
Three porters lost their lives late on Wednesday night when the lumber truck they were on toppled off the Soesdyke-Linden highway in the vicinity of Kuru Kuru. The Guyana Police Force in a statement identified the three dead men have been identified as Michael Edwards, Wilfred James and Alicious Squad. The driver of the truck, […]
A number of persons are in Police custody after raids in Sophia, Sparendaam and Lilliendaal by the Police unearthed a number of items that are suspected to have been stolen. In a statement, the Guyana Police Force said a 27-year-old Sophia resident who works as a vendor was taken into custody after a quantity of […]
Longtime business executive and Agronomist Anthony Vieira has announced his resignation from the Board of the Guyana Sugar Corporation where he served as Vice Chairman. Mr. Vieira announced his resignation in a letter to the press, pointing out that GuySuCo has numerous problems which cannot be addressed by its current management, which he described as […]
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