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The government will not be giving any raise of pay to Ministers and Members of Parliament this year but has decided to have the matter actively looked at for future consideration. Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman at the post-cabinet press briefing this morning announced that there will be “no adjustments” to the salaries this year. […]
The Private Sector Commission wants the new government to put systems in place to rebuild consumer confidence and spending even as it has admitted that the downturn in the economy started long before the new government took office. The Private Sector Commission (PSC) met with the business community on Friday, July 24, 2015 to discuss […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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