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The Cricket Carnival celebrations in Guyana have picked up major support from leading telecommunications company, GTT. In a major injection into the event, GTT has committed $150 million to Guyana’s Cricket Carnival over the year three years. Chief Operations Officer (COO) of the Company’s Business Solutions, Orson Ferguson, presented a cheque to the Minister of […]
Marijuana remains the most trafficked drug in Guyana with the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) seizing approximately 2200 kilograms of cannabis during the first six months of 2022. That illicit drug is followed by cocaine. Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU), James Singh, in his mid-year report disclosed that during the first quarter of 2022 […]
The Full Court, in upholding a decision of the High Court, has ruled that a poll conducted by the Trade Union Recognition Board in 2020, which resulted in the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) replacing the Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers as the workers’ representative at the Burma Rice Research Centre, was […]
President Irfaan Ali addressed the UN General Assembly today and called for an immediate re-examination of the financing gap and the debt portfolio of developing countries. The President made the call as he spoke about the hardships being faced by many developing states as they recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. He said a reopening of […]
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) today defended the process that led to the hiring of retired Voter Education Manager as the new Assistant Chief Elections Officer at the Commission. On Tuesday, the opposition nominated Commissioners voiced some concern about the hiring process, pointing out that the new ACEO only applied for the job during a […]
Former Voter Registration Manager at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Beverly Critchlow was today appointed Assistant Chief Election Officer (ACEO). However, the decision did not gain the support of Opposition-nominated Election Commissioners. Commissioner Vincent Alexander described the recruitment process as “contrived.” The decision to appointment Ms. Critchlow to the Office of the Assistant Chief Election […]
Opposition Member of Parliament Amanza Walton-Desir today reiterated her party’s call for President Irfaan Ali to fire Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo for alleged corrupt practices which were documented in a foreign media report earlier this year. Chinese businessman, Su Zhirong, who Mr. Jagdeo acknowledged as his friend, made some damning statements implicating the Vice President. Among […]
As Guyana wages a war on drugs, 28 drug traffickers have been convicted for a number of drug-related offences so far for this year while more than 60 persons have been charged during the first-half of 2022. In the mid-year report of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU), it was noted that during the second quarter […]
Admitting that the Office of the Auditor General does not currently have the capacity to conduct performance audit of the Oil and Gas Sector, Auditor General, Deodat Sharma on Monday said expertise in that area is being acquired with the support of the Canadian Auditing and Accountability Foundation (CAAF). “The Audit Office has been planning […]
President Irfaan Ali has announced that his government intends to keep its promise to provide free tertiary education in Guyana, which he said will come on board by 2025. Addressing the UN Transforming Education Summit Roundtable on Monday in New York, the President said the government also plans to increase education expenditure to ensure that […]
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