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Efforts to reform Guyana’s National Payment Systems, which commenced more than four years ago, will soon be supported by legislation. The legislation primarily seeks to address an existing and outdated system that falls short of meeting the needs of the economy and financial markets. The National Assembly on Friday debated the National Payment System Bill which makes […]
The Georgetown Public Hospital has recorded 119 deaths of newborn infants between June 2017 and June 2018. Those deaths were related to premature births. That information was presented to the National Assembly today by Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence. She was at the time responding to an oral question without notice from opposition MP and […]
Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes offered no comment when asked on Thursday whether she had any intentions of apologising to the security guards who were part of a parking lot fracas involving her and her driver. Broomes had claimed that she was cursed at and felt threatened by the security guards. […]
The Guyana Manufacturing and Service Association (GMSA) is calling on Government to take urgent action to repair and maintain roads in Guyana’s interior region, as timber producers are facing huge losses because if the roads being in an impassable state. Several operators in the timber and mining industries have been complaining about the state of […]
In what is likely to be his last US Independence address as the United States Ambassador to Guyana, Mr. Perry Holloway on Wednesday said he believes the old contract signed with US Oil Giant, ExxonMobil is about the best that could be expected based on historic exploration results in Guyana at that time. Holloway also spoke about the […]
Drama unfolded Tuesday morning within the Parliamentary Chambers as an anti bribery and corruption forum organized for members of the National Assembly got underway. Poorly attended by Government MPs, Opposition Parliamentarians turned out in their numbers and demanded the resignation of the facilitator, British Fraud Expert and Advisor to the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) Sam Sittlington. […]
Two days after a confrontation between two private security guards and the Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes and her driver, the Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, has met with one of the security guards and has offered an apology. Lawrence’s meeting took place last evening at the same New Thriving […]
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure in a statement this afternoon said it is not contemplating any increases to the Berbice Bridge toll. In the statement through the Department of Public Information, the Government said it stands by its decision to reduce tolls in fulfilling a campaign commitment, and will continue to work with the Berbice […]
Officials of the Berbice Bridge Company are expressing fears that the company could become bankrupt if its repeated requests to have tolls increases are not approved by the government in the shortest possible time. BCCI’s Chairman, Dr. Surendra Persaud said the Bridge Company dispatched letters to the government three times during 2015 and 2016, asking […]
On the same day that the independent Stabroek News in its editorial lashed out at the President for over the lack of Presidential press conferences, the President said his busy schedule was responsible for his lack of frequent and structured engagements with the local press corps. Speaking on the sidelines of the opening of an […]
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