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-by Svetlana Marshall- Declaring that the Government will not walk away from sugar, President Irfaan Ali declared today that his Administration is prepared to bring in experts from Guatemala and India to help with the management of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo). “We are talking with India, with Guatemala to find the technical support service […]
The Mahdia School Dorm Fire Commission of Inquiry will travel to Mahdia, and other neighbouring villages on Wednesday to conduct a familiarization visit. In a press briefing today at the COI Secretariat, Secretary to the Commission Javed Shaddick, explained that the visit is not intended to facilitate public hearings, but to have an assessment of […]
Officials of Caribbean Airlines have indicated that the airline’s services to many of its destinations are returning to a state of normalcy, even in the height of ongoing complaints from affected passengers. The airline announced today that many of its flights were back on schedule, although the ferrying out of the affected passengers was ongoing, […]
Tributes poured in today for longstanding member of the People’s Progressive Party, former Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon. Dr. Luncheon, who served every PPP government since 1992, died on August 2 after a period of illness. At the time of his passing, he was employed at the Office of the President as an advisor. In […]
Hundreds of Sugar workers from the Albion and Blairmont Sugar Estates in Berbice continue to protest, demanding a severance payout from the Guyana Sugar Corporation, (GUYSUCO). The protesting sugar workers were initially employed at the Rose Hall estate, but after the closure of that estate in 2017, many of them were transferred to the Albion […]
One of the students who was critically injured in the Mahdia School Dorm fire which claimed the lives of 20 children, has been released from the Staten Island University Hospital, after undergoing three months of special medical care. The young girl, Mariza Williams, was air-dashed to the United States back in May after surviving the […]
Caribbean Airlines flights across its network remained severely affected on Monday, even after the Industrial Court in Trinidad and Tobago ordered the airline’s pilots back to work. As of this afternoon, several flights remained canceled while others were updated to the “delayed” status. The airline admitted today that Sunday’s widespread cancellations and today’s ongoing disruptions […]
One day after Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo claimed that Trinidad and Tobago businessmen have been soaking up the foreign currency in Guyana by conducting lots of their international transactions from Guyana, Opposition Member of Parliament and Leader of the Alliance for Change, Khemraj Ramjattan, believes the Guyana Government must take the blame for the situation. […]
-by Svetlana Marshall- Opposition Member of Parliament and Leader of the Alliance For Change, Khemraj Ramjattan disclosed today that a United States Government report on gold smuggling while the APNU+AFC was in government, had indicated that over US$2 Billion in gold was smuggled out of Guyana over a 10 year period. He said the report […]
With a post-mortem examination set for Monday to determine the cause of death, the family of a 19-year-old woman whose body was found in her Lusignan apartment, want a full police investigation into her death. The young woman’s name has been given as Malinda Fiona Niewenkirk. A Police statement said her body was discovered this […]
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