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As part of its mandate to assist the poor and vulnerable, the Men On a Mission (MOM) group, which is the brainchild of President Irfaan Ali plans to use a percentage of its $500M government subvention to construct a minimum of 50 homes, even as it works to address the sore issues of gender-based violence […]
Under pressure from family and friends of the missing miner and community leaders, the Chinese-owned Bosai Bauxite Mining company suspended all operations today to step up searches for miner. The miner, Neptrind Hercules, has been missing since early Saturday morning when he was sucked underground by quicksand along with the bulldozer he was operating in […]
More than 24 hours after it was discovered that a bulldozer operator and the heavy duty machine he was operating were pulled underground by quicksand at the Bosai Bauxite Mines in Linden, there continues to be no trace of the man’s body or the heavy duty equipment. Other miners carefully dug for hours on Saturday […]
Opposition Member of Parliament and Former General Secretary of the People’s National Congress, Geeta Chandan-Edmond, has joined several of her party colleagues including MP Ganesh Mahipaul, Natasha Singh-Lewis, Region Four Chairman Daniel Seeram and Georgetown Mayor Ubraj, in condemning certain remarks which were made at a public meeting hosted by the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), […]
In two separate statements, the main private sector agencies in the country slammed the Working People’s Alliance and its senior official Tacuma Ogunseye over statements that he made at a public meeting in Buxton last Thursday. In its statement, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) described the statements by the longtime politician as “an undisguised, deliberate […]
President Irfaan Ali has condemned what he described as the “racist remarks aimed at fueling terrorism in Guyana”, by WPA Executive Member, Tacuma Ogunseye, during a public meeting in Buxton on Thursday. During the WPA meeting, Ogunseye spoke about the current plight of the poor in Guyana and Afro Guyanese under the current government, and […]
Another victim from last Monday’s smash-up between a sandtruck and a mini-bus at Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo has died. The Guyana Police Force has reported that 71-year-old Tella Parhoo, who sustained multiple injuries in the accident, died on Friday afternoon at the Georgetown Hospital. She was a passenger in the mini-bus. The other four […]
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall has condemned the statements made by Working People’s Alliance Executive Tacuma Ogunseye about an uprising needing to happen in Guyana. Nandlall slammed the WPA official’s call for the joint services to be “battle ready”, describing the statements as racist and inciteful. During a WPA public meeting […]
Opposition Member of Parliament and Former Public Works Minister, David Patterson is of the view that the country will have to brace itself for daily power outages if the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) company does not fix some of its current challenges. Patterson said he believes the challenges currently facing GPL are well over […]
Executive Member of the Alliance For Change and Former Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Vincent Adams, has accused the Guyana Government of being complicit and encouraging unlimited flaring of Natural gas by ExxonMobil offshore Guyana. He said he is concerned that the continuous flaring could have devastating environmental impacts. During an AFC […]
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