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New York-based Guyanese political activist, Rickford Burke has rubbished the wanted bulletin issued for his arrest by the Police and is accusing the government of now using the police force to go after its political opponents and critics. A wanted bulletin was issued for Burke’s arrest by the Guyana Police Force on Friday evening for […]
The Government of Guyana with assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s local office and the Environmental Protection Agency have started a probe into the decline in the fish catch locally. Local fishermen have been complaining about a sudden decline in their catch and the impact it continues to have on their livelihoods. The Food […]
The Alliance for Change which is one of the partners in the APNU+AFC Coalition, lambasted the PPP Civic Government today over the arrest of former Finance Minister Winston Jordan and the plan to file charges against him in relation to the sale of wharf facilities by the former Government to local contracting company, BK International. […]
Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll jumped over the 1000 mark with three more deaths being recorded. According to the Ministry of Health, two of the recent deaths, a 65-year-old man and a 70-year-old man from the Region 10 community were both fully vaccinated. The third person who died was a 59-year-old unvaccinated man from Region Two. […]
An investigation by the Guyana Revenue Authority into the discovery of more than 1100 pounds of cocaine in a rum shipment from Guyana has revealed that when the shipment left Guyana, there were only boxes of rum in the container. The cocaine bust took place in The Netherlands. In a statement today, the GRA said […]
The cash-strapped Georgetown City Council is seeking to recover billions of dollars owed in taxes by implementing a four-month amnesty period for defaulters. The Municipal Amnesty Policy (MAP), seeks to target those citizens and businesses that continue to default in their tax obligations to the city. Under the new policy, they can avoid Court action […]
With a slowdown in the vaccination rate of children between the ages of 12 and 17 and the vaccination for younger children yet to begin, the Minister of Education Priya Manickchand made it clear today that unvaccinated children will not be blocked from attending classes. Less than 30% of children between the ages of 12 […]
With neighbouring Brazil going on high alert following the discovery of the new Omicron coronavirus variant there, Guyana’s Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony is encouraging Guyanese to keep following the COVID-19 rules and recommendations to safeguard themselves against the new variant. There has been no confirmed case of the new variant in Guyana or […]
Opposition Leader Joe Harmon slammed the arrest of former Finance Minister Winston Jordan today as nothing more than witch-hunting by the PPP Civic government. In a statement, the Opposition Leader described the arrest as a vile, malicious and vindictive act of political witch-hunting by the government. “The arrest of former Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, […]
Region 4 is back on top as the region with the highest number of new and active COVID-19 cases. The Minister of Health made the revelation today during his daily COVID-19 update. Minister Anthony said Region Three has seen a reduction in its active numbers as more persons have been recovering from the virus, but […]
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