By News Source Guyana on August 4, 2015
News, Politics
The Ministry of Social Protection is expected to launch a probe into the dismissal of three constables attached to the Georgetown City Constabulary because they became pregnant within the first two years of their employment. Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Simona Broomes expressed shock this morning that the City Constabulary would even have such […]
By News Source Guyana on August 3, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
The People’s Progressive Party believes that the new APNU+AFC government should not be considering any raise of pay for Ministers and Advisors who have only been on the job for just three months and who would have not had their performance assessed. Speaking at his Monday morning press conference, the General Secretary of the PPP, […]
By News Source Guyana on August 3, 2015
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General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Clement Rohee has defended his purchase of prime sea side land for $1. 5 Million while he served as Minister under the last government. Rohee who told the media that as a government Minister, his monthly salary was $579,000, said the land was offered to him and he bought […]
By News Source Guyana on August 2, 2015
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The Government of Venezuela has now taken issue with Guyana’s decision to gazette the regulated coordinates for the Essequibo river. On Thursday, Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge announced in the National Assembly, the coordinates for the river baselines for the three main rivers being regulated and gazetted. But the Venezuelan government has rejected […]
By News Source Guyana on August 2, 2015
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After distancing himself from his former bodyguard of four days, former Attorney General Anil Nandlall has now declared that the man’s arrest was “much ado about nothing”. The former bodyguard, Rajput Narine, was arrested by the police as they widened their investigations into the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing who was gunned down in […]
By News Source Guyana on August 1, 2015
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(Trinidad Express) TRINIDAD and Tobago and Guyana have agreed to a Joint Commission to initiate and oversee collaboration in construction, education, business and other areas where it would be mutually beneficial to deepen ties. The Office of the Prime Minister, in a release yesterday on the visit to T&T by Guyana President Brig David […]
By News Source Guyana on July 31, 2015
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The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban-Ki-Moon and President David Granger held a telephone conversation on Thursday about the ongoing controversy involving Venezuela’s claims to Guyana’s territory and maritime area. The teleconference was a follow up of the meeting between the two which took place on the margins of the Conference of Heads of Government […]
By News Source Guyana on July 31, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
The National Assembly has suspended the annual recess which Members of Parliament (MPs) enjoy annually, to make provisions for the presentation of the 2015 National Budget and the consideration of the estimates of revenue and expenditure that follows. Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge moved the motion which suspended Standing Order #9 of the Parliament. Standing Order […]
By News Source Guyana on July 30, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
Local government elections will wait on no one. That is the view of Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan as he addressed the National Assembly earlier today. He declared that those elections could be held in December. Bulkan was directly responding to the opposition People’s Progressive Party which claimed that the holding of the long-awaited local […]
By News Source Guyana on July 30, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
The National Assembly on Thursday passed the Fiscal Management and Accountability (Amendment) Bill 2015 which seeks to give financial independence to several Constitutional bodies. The Bill was first passed in 2013, when the current government held the majority in the House as the opposition but it failed to receive the assent of former President Donald […]