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Minister of Education Dr. Rupert Roopnarine has indicated that the Government has not made any decision as yet as to whether the $10,000 education cash grant will continue. The grant was introduced last year as a budget measure of the former People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration. Last week reports surfaced that a decision was made to […]
Guyana’s President David Granger used his address at the opening of the first plenary session of the International Conference on Financing for Sustainable Development in Ethiopia to make the point that the prevention of the development of a country’s resources by another nation could serve as a block to sustainable development. The President said although Guyana […]
Former Minister with responsibility for Public security, Clement Rohee has criticized the new crime fighting strategy developed by the APNU+AFC administration and he has issued a call on his successor, Khemraj Ramjattan to act now and put forward his own “progressive and comprehensive” citizen security plan. Mr. Rohee said Ramjattan has failed in this regard. […]
Guyana’s capital city of Georgetown has no reliable fire hydrant that could assist the Guyana Fire Service in its fire fighting efforts. That grim reality is according to Fire Chief Marlon Gentle. In an interview with News Source this afternoon, the Fire Chief explained that fire hydrants across Georgetown have either been vandalized beyond repair […]
The United States on Monday committed additional financial resources to Guyana, which it hopes will be significant in supporting the new government’s law enforcement reform efforts. A letter of amendment was signed on Monday between Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge and Chargé d’ Affaires of the U.S Embassy in Georgetown, Bryan Hunt. It allows for the […]
Guyana has signaled its intention to no longer support the United Nations Good Officer Process as it moves forward and looks for a resolution to Venezuela’s illegal claim to the Essequibo region and Guyana’s maritime space. Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge made the disclosure at a Monday morning briefing. His statement is in response to […]
The General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Clement Rohee, this morning denied that the party has identified former Attorney General Anil Nandlall as its nominee for Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. At his regular Monday morning press conference at Freedom House, Mr. Rohee said a report which appeared in the Guyana Times naming […]
An early Sunday morning fire completely gutted the Chinese General Store in the old AH&L Kissoon’s building at the corner of Robb and Camp Streets, leaving nothing but ashes and millions of dollars in losses behind. The fire service was summoned to the scene just after 2:00am according to eyewitnesses who reported seeing the blaze […]
The Guyana Police Force reported late on Saturday that there were 79 murders committed across Guyana between the January and the end of June for this year and one other murder recorded for the month of July so far. There were 69 murders during the first six months of the year in 2014. The Force […]
(TeleSUR English) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro sent a letter Friday to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asking the U.N. chief to appoint a new Good Officer to diplomatically address the Venezuela-Guyana territorial issue. “As it is public knowledge, the new Government of Guyana has ignored, the entry into force of the 1966 Geneva agreement, showing a stubborn and ambivalent attitude and has inflicted serious […]
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