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The Department of Public Information is reporting that Minister of Social Protection, Amna Ally is in good spirits and resting comfortably at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where she sought medical attention today after feeling unwell. “As a precautionary measure, Minister Ally is being kept for observation and is scheduled to travel overseas on Wednesday, June […]
Hope is fading among regional leaders when it comes to the full implementation of all elements of the CARICOM Single Market Economy (CSME). Some CARICOM leaders believe the realization of the CSME’s full potential will not be accomplished in the foreseeable future. That is the contention of Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, […]
A number of Opposition members, including former President Donald Ramotar, left the High Court dejected and refused to speak to the media this afternoon after Chief Justice (acting) Roxanne George-Wiltshire upheld President David Granger’s decision to appoint a Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission from outside the lists provided to him by the Leader of the Opposition. […]
The Opposition People’s Progressive Party today revealed that it intends to step up its scrutiny of the APNU+AFC coalition government at the Parliamentary level. Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo at his weekly press conference this afternoon admitted to reporters that many of his own Members of Parliament have been dropping the ball when it comes to holding the […]
With the price for fuel continuing to rise at the pump, the Guyana Rice Producers Association is concerned about the financial hardship that the rising prices could add to the Agriculture Sector. The Association wants the Government to immediately lower the taxes on fuel to ease the burden on the productive sector. According tot the […]
Officials of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council are scheduled to make a presentation to Cabinet at its next meeting on the amended parking meter by-laws even as Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan has already registered his support for the return of paid parking in the city. Bulkan told reporters on Wednesday that following the presentation by […]
President David Granger has distanced his government from any involvement in the recruitment process at the Guyana Elections Commission. The President’s statement on Wednesday came one day after a fallout at the Elections Body where the Opposition nominated Commissioners continue to insist that there was a major ethnic imbalance in GECOMs staffing, although they could not provide […]
President David Granger on Wednesday brushed aside most recent calls him to go ahead and confirm acting Chancellor, Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards and acting Chief Justice Roxanne George to the substantive positions, saying that doing so would be outside of the Constitutional requirements. The Head of State was at the time responding to fresh calls by the Guyana […]
It took a few days of protests and the involvement of Amerindian Rights Groups and the Ministry of Education, but on Wednesday, the Mae’s Private School formally issued an apology to the parents of the young boy who was told to cover up when he arrived at school in his Indigenous outfit for the school’s […]
One day after a list of the more than 200 Guyanese businesses and individuals doing business with the ExxonMobil oil company was released, the company is putting a dollar figure to those numbers. Appearing on 94.1 FM’s JumpStart Morning Show today, the Director for Public and Government Affairs at Exxon, Kimberly Brassington revealed that US$14 […]
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