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Chief Security Officer, Peon Lee also known as “Nino Brown” who worked at the Wallison Gold Trading Enterprise which was robbed back in August has been granted bail in the some $450,000 by the High Court. Lee has been in custody since last August after being fingered as one of the accused in the multi-million […]
A major investigation into suspected financial improprieties at the headquarters of the Guyana Fire Service has been launched and the Fire Chief is facing a number of questions. News Source understands that the investigations were prompted by an audit of the operations at the Fire Service headquarters which raised several worrying issues. Part of the […]
Guyana has recorded an additional 1,019 Covid-19 cases over the last 24 hours pushing the number of positive cases in the country to 7,613. Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony is warning persons who are experiencing flu-like symptoms, that they should isolate themselves or get tested since those flu symptoms could really be COVID-19 symptoms. “What […]
The Agriculture and Innovation Entrepreneurship Programme which is intended to boost the agriculture sector while empowering youths in agriculture and creating jobs, was launched on Tuesday. Under the programme, the Government will provide the resources and materials to develop 25 shade houses in the first phase that will be used to house thousands of high-value […]
The Personal Assistant to the former Chief Election Officer, Duarte Hetsberger, has been fired from the position as the new Chief Election Officer, Vishnu Persaud, settles in his new job. Hetsberger who is a GDF Reserve Officer was dismissed by the new CEO. While the Elections Commission has not indicated the reason behind the firing, two […]
President Irfaan Ali today announced that Guyana will be joining several of its Caribbean colleagues in moving closer to cleaner energy, not only as a means of taking its global commitments seriously, but also to help mitigate the impact of Climate Change. The President was at the time delivering remarks at the commissioning of a […]
The Georgetown Mayor and City Council has passed a motion seeking the termination of the services of City Engineer Colvern Venture over alleged underperformance. The motion which was tabled by Councilors Heston Bostwick and Clayton Hinds in December came up for discussion and passage at Monday’s statutory meeting of the Council, which was the first […]
Three weeks after the Guyana Court of Appeal in a 2-1 decision ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear the Election Petition case which was thrown out by Chief Justice Roxanne George for late service to former President David Granger, the Attorneys representing the Government and the Vice President are moving to the CCJ to […]
The Ministry of Health is stepping up its efforts to get more fully vaccinated persons to get their booster dose for enhanced protection against COVID-19. Guyana has more than 300,000 fully vaccinated persons and so far, just over 18,000 persons have returned to the clinics and vaccination centres for their booster doses. The Ministry of […]
The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit improved its drug seizures in 2021 as against the previous year, and the Head of the drug enforcement agency is crediting the hard work of his ranks and a number of intelligence-led operations and government support for the agency’s success. In its 2021 operations report, CANU pointed out that in 2021, […]
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