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President Irfaan Ali has encouraged the country’s business community to continue investing and moving forward with their business plans as normal, even as the country is dealing with external threats from neighboring Venezuela. Speaking at the Private Sector Commission’s Gala Dinner and Award Ceremony on Tuesday night, the President said despite the threats to the […]
In a majority decision during an extraordinary meeting this morning, the Georgetown City Council approved a 6.5% across the board salary increase for its more than 500 workers. The Council, in a unanimous decision, also agreed to pay its workers a $25,000 one-off bonus for the holiday season. The Council’s Finance Committee had recommended a […]
So far for this year, the Guyana Fire Service has responded to 510 building fires and some 807 grass fires, the Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn announced today. He made the statement today while responding to questions from Opposition Member of Parliament Geeta Chandan-Edmond as he justified the allocation of an additional $24M in […]
Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha today defended Government’s decision to continuously bail out the cash-strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), telling the Committee of Supply in the National Assembly, that the recently reopened Rose Hall Estate will be one of the most productive estates, despite its current underperformance. At the time, Minister Mustapha was defending the […]
Opposition Member of Parliament, Amanza Walton-Desir today grilled Foreign Affairs Minister, Hugh Todd on the Argyle Declaration that came out of the talks between President Irfaan Ali and Venezuela’s President, Nicolas Maduro last week in St. Vincent. During today’s sitting of the National Assembly, the Opposition MP submitted that while the Argyle Declaration addresses the […]
The Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir today blocked a Motion that was filed by the Opposition which was seeking to establish a multi-stakeholder Task Force to address issues arising out of the Venezuela/Guyana Border Controversy. A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Member of Parliament, David Patterson, in tabling the […]
British Under Secretary of State and Member of Parliament David Rutley is in Guyana for a series of meetings. This morning, he met with President Irfaan Ali and a Government team at State House. The British High Commissioner was also part of the meeting. In a statement, the President’s Office said the discussions focused on […]
By Svetlana Marshall Demanding that ‘good governance prevails,’ the Linden Mayor and members of his Town Council picketed the Office of the Local Government Commission today over moves by the Commission to appoint Government Political Activist Lennox Gasper as the Municipal Town Clerk. The protesters said the process has already been “botched” by the Local […]
The Opposition suffered another major setback in its attempt to vitiate the results of 2020 Elections, with the Court of Appeal ruling this morning that there was nothing unconstitutional about Order 60, thereby upholding the earlier ruling by the Acting Chief Justice. Order 60 is the order that was used for the recount. In April […]
Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud has described the recent meeting between President Irfaan Ali and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in St. Vincent and the Grenadines as a success, noting that not only did it quell the tension which was escalating at the time, but it has also set the stage for good relations between the two […]
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