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Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Priya Manickchand has announced that the Government intends to boost the capacity of the 90 Local Government organs in the country this year, even as it pours billions of dollars into the rehabilitation and or construction of markets, roads, bridges, and landfill sites and other critical facilities. In […]
More than two years after a deadly Guyana Defence Force helicopter crash claimed the lives of five servicemen, the Government of Guyana appears set to keep the findings of the investigations top secret. There have been continuous and growing calls for the report into the deadly crash to be made public. Just this week in […]
While on the witness stand in the Mohameds’ extradition hearing, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sharon Roopchand admitted that the extradition request for the Mohameds may not be the only extradition request that the Government of Guyana has received in recent months. The Permanent Secretary spoke of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs […]
By Svetlana Marshall In a presentation that grabbed the attention of the National Assembly this afternoon, We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) Member of Parliament, Odessa Primus hauled the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr. over the coals over the lack of policies and concrete initiatives to guide development in the sectors under […]
President Irfaan Ali today urged Officers of the Guyana Defence Force and the wider Joint Services to urgently address issues of capacity and capability, explaining that the nature of the country’s defence mandate and architecture is changing. Addressing the opening of the GDF Officers’ Conference this morning, the President said the National Defence mandate is […]
After a failed attempt by one of the Attorneys for Nazar and Azruddin Mohamed to get an adjournment in their extradition matter before the Court, the case continued before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman this morning at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sharon Roopchand, returned to the witness box […]
Co-Leader of the Working People’s Alliance and Member of Parliament for A Partnership for National Unity, Dr. David Hinds called out the Government for not prioritizing public servants and the University of Guyana in the 2026 National Budget. The Budget speech by Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh did not make any reference to public servants […]
Chief of Defence Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Brigadier Omar Khan today said the military remains on high alert and will continue to stand guard in the face of recent developments in Venezuela, which he noted could pose a challenge to national security and the country’s territorial integrity. Addressing the opening of the Guyana […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hugh Todd defended the Government’s Foreign Policy, while launching an attack on Forward Guyana Movement (FGM) Member of Parliament, Amanza Walton-Desir, after she highlighted the loop holes in the current system, and called for an integrated foreign policy framework that addresses new and emerging challenges. Rising to make […]
Acting Chief Justice Navindra Singh has dismissed one of the two cases filed by the Nazar and Azruddin Mohamed in the High Court challenging the ongoing extradition proceedings against them in the Magistrates’ Court. In a ruling yesterday, Justice Singh rejected the claims by the Mohameds that state officials acted with political bias by signing […]
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