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As the third day of the budget debate continued on the inside of Parliament, scores of former sugar workers from the Uitvlugt and Wales estate gathered on the outside to demand their severance packages. Some other sugar workers from Albion and Blairmont joined the protest to demand salary increases. The workers claimed that while many […]
The third day of the debate into the National Budget opened this morning with a focus on the education sector and a clash between the past and present Education Ministers on the sector. Former Education Minister and PPP frontbencher, Priya Manickchand said the education sector saw many improvements under the last government and she was […]
With ExxonMobil announcing its tenth oil find in Guyana, the Head of the Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe, is encouraging Guyanese to look beyond the oil and gas for benefits from the sector. In an interview, he explained that employment opportunities will be available for a number of sectors that will benefit from oil […]
As the budget debates continued this morning, the opposition’s point man on public health, Dr. Frank Anthony, lashed out at the government over some its procurement practices for the health sector, telling the National Assembly that the Government has been paying for drugs that are not being delivered. “What is unbelievable Mr. Speaker is that […]
President David Granger has indicated that his chemotherapy schedule that is part of his cancer treatment, will continue until May of next year. He is expected to make a number of trips to Cuba until he completes the treatment there. The President and his wife left Guyana early this morning for Cuba where he will […]
The debate of the 2019 national budget opened this morning in the National Assembly with Opposition frontbencher and former Minister of Housing and Water, Irfaan Ali, accusing the government of packing the budget with wasteful spending that will not have any impact on the ordinary Guyanese. In his 35-minute response to the Finance Minister’s four […]
One day after the Ministry of Public Infrastructure announced a ban on beach parties behind the Marriott hotel, Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, has explained that the move was triggered by Court action filed by the parent company for the Marriott hotel in Guyana. Speaking to News Source this morning, Mr. Patterson said Atlantic […]
Minister of Public Health and Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform, Volda Lawrence has issued an apology over her statement that she only has PNC friends and would only hire PNC people. Her statement received widespread criticism. In an interview with News Source at Parliament buildings this morning, Ms. Lawrence said “I am not […]
Director, Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe this morning announced that United States oil giant ExxonMobil has made its 10th discovery offshore Guyana at the Pluma-1 well. This latest discovery has increased the estimated recoverable resource for the Stabroek Block to more than 5 billion oil-equivalent barrels. “This is great news for Guyana…the country is […]
Retired Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Cecil Kennard, held no punches back in his recommendations following his completion of a Commission of Inquiry into the affairs of the Georgetown City Council. In his report, which was obtained by News Source, Justice Kennard said the Guyana Police Force and the State Asset Recovery Agency should be […]
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