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Remedial works to the more than $728M Kato Secondary School (Region 8) have been completed with a certificate of practical completion expected to be issued tomorrow to the contractor. After completion, the school was toured by a Ministerial Task Force which comprised officials from the Ministries of Education, Public Infrastructure, and Indigenous Affairs. Among the […]
Minister of Public Service, Dr. Rupert Roopnarine has decided to recall his resignation from government and continue to serve the coalition government as a cabinet Minister. His decision was announced today by Minister of State Joe Harmon. According to the Minister of State, Dr. Roopnarine met yesterday with the President in his company and the […]
With a pledge to ensure that the Judiciary remains independent and impartial, President David Granger on Wednesday administered the Oath of Office to four new High Court Judges and elevated a sitting High Court Judge to the Court of Appeal. Family members and senior members of the judiciary gathered at State House to witness the swearing in […]
Minister of Public Service in the Ministry of the Presidency, Dr. Rupert Roopnarine, has offered his resignation from the post to President David Granger. The resignation comes just one month after the President moved Roopnarine from his post as Minister of Education to the newly created Ministerial position. This morning, President David Granger, confirmed receiving […]
President David Granger is maintaining that he intends to appoint a person he deems “fit and proper” to the top Guyana Elections Commission post, despite an interpretation of the Constitution by the Chief Justice earlier this week. On the sidelines of the swearing in of new Judges at State House on Wednesday, Mr. Granger told the […]
Two persons who were on board a cocaine carrying vessel are in the custody of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit after 209 pounds of the illegal substance was found aboard the vessel. The bust was made on Monday by the Coast Guard of the Guyana Defence Force during a patrol of the Pomeroon river. Charges […]
Four new Judges will take their oath of office this morning, while a fifth Judge will be elevated to the Court of Appeal. Attorneys, Simone Morris-Ramlall, Damone Younge, Sandil Kissoon and Gino Persaud will all be sworn in to office this morning before President David Granger as new High Court Judges. Justice Rishi Persaud will be […]
A total of 16 communities across Guyana will receive electricity for the time before the end of this year. That announcement was made today by Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority, Lelon Saul. Mr. Saul told a media conference this morning that the infrastructural upgrade that the communities have been waiting on […]
Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo, has indicated that he will possibly support the move by businessman Marcel Gaskin, to appeal the Chief Justice’s decision in the Elections Commission Chairman matter that was taken to the Court by Gaskin in his capacity as a private citizen. Most of the Chief Justice’s interpretation of the Constitution […]
The businessman who initiated Court proceedings, seeking an interpretation of Article 161(2) of the Constitution has announced his intention to appeal the decision by Chief Justice Roxanne George- Wiltshire, on the grounds that she went beyond what he had requested. Marcel Gaskin’s application to the High dealt with the Constitutional requirements for the selection of […]
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