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In a span of 11 years – 2002-2013 – the then Peoples’ Progressive Party (PPP) government installed 38 Interim Management Committees (IMCs) at the local government level in the absence of Local Government Elections (LGE). This was revealed by the Ministry of the Presidency’s Communications Director, Mark Archer in a social media post yesterday. Archer’s […]
The Guyana Elections Commission has reported that Justice Navindra Singh has dismissed the case brought against the Chief Elections Officer and the Returning Officer for Bloomfield /Whim, over the backers list for the Alliance For Change. The case was filed by the PPP, claiming that a number of persons were misled by the AFC into […]
The Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers Union are set to sign their agreement on the salary increases for teachers on Wednesday. The signing comes more than two weeks after the two sides announced that they have reached an agreement. News Source understands that the Minister of Education has also asked that the full […]
Students from Guyana, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize and Jamaica will benefit from a digital education initiative which is to be implemented in one hundred schools in those five countries. Last Tuesday, the Organisation of American States (OAS) signed an agreement with the Spanish-based ProFuturo Foundation, which has one of the largest digital education programmes in […]
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure today announced that the Government through a loan provided by the Government of India has entered into an agreement for the East Bank – East Coast Road Linkage Project. The project will from Diamond on the East Bank of Demerara to Ogle on the East Coast. In a statement, the […]
The Georgetown Public Hospital has been able to significantly reduce a backlog of over 170 cases of persons who were in line for joint replacement surgeries. The reduction is thanks to a team of 50 medical personnel from the Operation Walk Surgery Group, which has been traveling around the world conducting free surgeries for their […]
A gold miner who allegedly stabbed a fellow miner to death during a drunken row over cigarettes was charged for murder and remanded to jail today. 35-year-old, Parsaram Ramnauth appeared before Chief Magistrate, Ann Mclennan and was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge of murder. It is alleged that on the […]
Chairman of the Berbice Bridge Company, Dr. Surendra Persaud, today said the company is holding firm to its decision that there must be increases in the tolls and it plans to go ahead with its decision from November 12. In a brief telephone interview with News Source, Dr. Persaud said the company will be releasing […]
Former President Donald Ramotar is not happy at all with the Court of Appeal’s recent decision to back the High Court ruling that there was nothing unlawful with the President’s appointment of the Chairman of the Elections Commission. The Opposition People’s Progressive Party, through its Executive Secretary had moved to the Court in an effort […]
Public sector officials from across The Commonwealth region are in Guyana for their biennial conference. The meeting opened this morning at the Marriott hotel and is examining climate change issues and the transformation of the public sector for climate governance. Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo declared the meeting opened and explained that today’s public sector has […]
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