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The Ministry of Health via its daily COVID-19 dashboard revealed this afternoon that the country recorded three more deaths from COVID-19 today. No detail has been provided about the deaths and the Health Ministry continues to be tightlipped on the surge in new cases and deaths. August has become the deadliest month for COVID-19 in […]
Two businessmen have joined forces to launch a new housing company that intends to build what is being pushed as a modern mega city in Guyana. Under the Construction and Investment Management Group, headed by businessmen, Ragindra Persaud of Nand Persaud Company and Sudama Ramalingum of New Trend Auto, the Maraiko Bay Oceanfront mega project […]
Facing a backlash over plans to revoke land allocations made between January and July of this year, the Ministry of Housing is clarifying that it is only reviewing the allocations and would not want allottees to make additional payments on their lands at this time. In a statement last evening, the Housing Ministry said it […]
Electoral Returning Officer for Region Four, Clairmont Mingo is to be released from Police custody early tomorrow morning when the 72 hour timeline since he has been in custody expires. Mingo has been in Police custody since Tuesday afternoon being questioned about alleged electoral fraud in the 2020 elections. His Attorney, Darren Wade, had moved […]
Leader of the Alliance for Change and former Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan expressed shock and said he is appalled by the way investigators are treating persons it has held for questioning in the electoral fraud probe. During an AFC virtual press conference this midday, Mr. Ramjattan said while it is important for the […]
The number of deaths from coronavirus in Guyana climbed by 1 today to 32 as the country also recorded 47 new cases. The latest COVID-19 fatality has been identified as a 52-year-old man who passed away in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Hospital. He reportedly had underlying conditions. The 47 new cases […]
The recently announced plan by the Minister of Housing to revoke land allocations that were made by the last government between January and July is coming in for criticism from the APNU+AFC Coalition. In a recent meeting, Minister Collin Croal announced that persons who were allocated lands in the past seven months and benefitted from […]
General Secretary of the APNU and presumptive Leader of the Opposition, Joe Harmon, has written to the United Nations, the OAS, the Commonwealth and a number of other international organisations and countries about the recently concluded elections in Guyana. In his letter, Mr. Harmon said that based on the vast amount of evidence and findings […]
Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton has told officials of the ExxonMobil company that his Ministry will be pushing to ensure there is equal pay for local workers in the oil and gas sector and that they be allowed to join a union. Hamilton met on Wednesday with the President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge and […]
Former Chairperson of the Working People’s Alliance, Tabitha Sarabo-Halley will be taking up the seat that has already been allocated to her as part of the APNU+AFC Coalition but she will be doing so as an “independent” member of the coalition. The former Public Service Minister resigned from the Working People’s Alliance earlier this week […]
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