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Some 7,000 persons will be trained under the Board of Industrial Training Programme (BIT) for 2023, Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton told the National Assembly today. “Mr Speaker, Budget 2023 provides for us to train about 7,000 persons,” Minister Hamilton said while noting that the country has moved from a place where it had no […]
Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton today disclosed today that 21 persons were killed at their place of work in 2022. Minister Hamilton made the disclosure while defending the Government’s 2023 National Budget. Focusing on his labour portfolio, MP Hamilton said the figure represents a 20% reduction in work place deaths when compared to the number […]
Kickstarting the 2023 budget debate in the National Assembly with a rendition of ‘the Song of Guyana’s Children,’ Opposition Member of Parliament , Nima Flue-Bless railed into the Government for presenting, what she described as a very “uninspiring, hopeless, misleading, and troubling” Budget. The APNU+AFC Member of Parliament told the House, that since the return […]
The debate of the 2023 National Budget opens this morning and is expected to wrap up by Friday night. The start of the debates comes one week after the presentation of the $781.9 billion budget which focuses heavily on infrastructural works and development. The Government has been on a media blitz in its defence of […]
Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo has confirmed that monies have been set aside in the budget for salary increases for public servants this year, although he has not provided a figure. He said that the announcement will be made later this year. The Government last month increased the salaries of public servants by 8% across the […]
The $70 million libel suit filed by Assistant Commissioner of Police, Calvin Brutus against former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Paul Slowe was dismissed today by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall. Last April, Mr Brutus filed a Statement of Claim in the High Court for damages in excess of $60M, in addition to $10M for aggravated […]
Faced with criticism over the appointment of an Operations Coordinator without the knowledge of the rest of the Elections Commission, the Commission’s Chairman is clarifying her position. In a statement today, GECOM indicated that the Commission’s IT Officer was seconded to the new position on request of the Chief Elections Officer. According to GECOM, the […]
Four days after the $781.9B Budget was presented to the National Assembly, some of the country’s vendors in the capital city of Georgetown seem unmoved with the majority of them telling News Source that regardless of its magnitude, they still have to get up and go to work to earn an honest dollar. For them, […]
One month after he allegedly attacked and stabbed a presidential guard while disarming another and opening fire at the President’s official residence, Nigerian national, Ikena Chimezie appeared in Court this afternoon to face charges. The man who was hospitalised for the past month and was once hooked up to life support, had to be lifted […]
Another controversy is brewing at the Guyana Elections Commission over the creation of new positions and the appointment of persons to those positions by the Chairman without the knowledge of the full Commission. Opposition nominated Elections Commissioner, Vincent Alexander has accused the Chairman of GECOM, retired Justice Claudette Singh of secretly appointing the Commission’s IT Manager, […]
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