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In the face of mounting challenges to Guyana’s rice industry, President David Granger on Monday assured scores of rice farmers and millers that the future of the industry in Guyana is “bright”, even as he pledged the government’s support for the private sector led trade. The President said it is his personal belief that rice, […]
The General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Clement Rohee today further distanced his party from self-confessed member of the former death squad, Sean Hinds. At his regular morning press briefing, Mr. Rohee admitted that he did see Sean Hinds in the PPP headquarters building last week but did not pay him much attention. He […]
Self confessed death squad member and former murder accused Sean Hinds is wanted by the Guyana Police Force for questioning into his surveillance of the private residence of Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo. Two weeks ago, the security detail attached to the Prime Minister noticed a strange car parked close by the Prime Minister’s North Sophia […]
Head of the National Frequency Management Unit, Mr. Valmiki Singh has advised that the Region 10 Broadcasting Inc (RBI) could be assigned a channel for use as a regional television channel. Mr. Singh gave the technical recommendations during talks yesterday with Mr. Sharma Solomon, one of the directors of the new company representing the people […]
Minister of Finance Winston Jordan today met with members of the opposition People’s Progressive Party and discussed the 2015 Budget. The consultation has gone down as the first official face to face engagement between the new APNU+AFC government and the opposition, People’s Progressive Party which had been in government for just over 22 years. The […]
President David Granger has once again utilized an international platform to raise the threat neighboring Venezuela is posing to its sovereignty and said it has become a burden that is too much to bear for a country with fewer than one million people to bear. The Guyanese Head of State was delivering the commencement address […]
Public Servants must utilize their vacation leave during the year of entitlement or they will lose it, according to the Minister of State, Joseph Harmon. The minister said the government is being faced with a situation where several public servants are proceeding on hundreds of days of accumulative leave. He said some of these persons hold […]
The former Attorney General of Guyana, Anil Nandlall is having “serious introspection” about whether he should continue serving the Guyanese public through political office. Mr. Nandlall was forced to call a press conference yesterday to clear his name after his former bodyguard was arrested in connection with the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing. He […]
Fifty of the sixty-two staffers of the government’s One Laptop Per Family programme have received letters of dismissal as funding for the project has dried up and as the new administration is seeking to take the project in a new direction. The fifty staffers who were based at the Queenstown headquarters of the project received […]
Former Attorney General of Guyana, Anil Nandlall this afternoon confirmed that one of the men currently in custody in connection with the murder of political activist, Courtney Crum-Ewing was indeed his personal bodyguard, but he claims he hired the man after Crum-Ewing’s death and fired him four days later. In a hastily called press conference […]
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