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Overflowing garbage bins sit on the road in front of an East Street residence waiting to be emptied as a result of the disruption in collection that has resulted due to the two main contractors suspending their services over non-payment.
The newly elected Georgetown Mayor and City Council should be allowed to assess the ongoing payment problems with the city’s two largest garbage disposal contractors and decide if government should be approached for help, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday
“I think that from today, you would have new management at the City Hall and, therefore, I believe it is not only right that they be given an opportunity to wrap their minds around this problem and if, in their deliberation and their contemplation, there is a requirement for additional help, I would leave that call to be made by the council,” Harmon said during his post-Cabinet press briefing.
Government has ordered the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Ltd (NICIL) to take legal action to recover the outstanding US$5 million from Hong Kong Golden Telecom Limited (HKGT) for the purchase of government shares in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT).
The agricultural sector has been allocated $17.1 billion in the 2019 national budget to ramp up diversification to take advantage of available resources and to build economic resilience, while prioritising food safety and security, improved infrastructure, new value chains and value-added industries, Finance Minister Winston Jordan has said.
The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) and the non-governmental organisation, Visit Rupununi, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding agreeing to strengthen linkages between Region Nine (Upper Essequibo/Upper Takutu) and the national and international communities to market the Rupununi’s tourism products.
Days after she was brutally chopped by her partner following an argument at Swan Village, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, Melicia Andrews’ condition has improved significantly.
Kevin Verwayne, who in 2014 was sentenced to 78 years behind bars for the murder of his spouse Farida Ramdeen, whom he drowned, is appealing what he contends to be an excessive sentence.
A known fraud accused was yesterday sentenced to 36 months in jail after being found guilty of defrauding an auto sales company of vehicles worth a total of $26.3 million.
CARICOM is calling for a seat on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as a means of having its concerns properly represented.
The Ministry of Public Health has refused to address concerns about the licensing of health care facilities for this year, saying instead that processing of applications for next year has begun.
Radio devices found in two vehicles intercepted by the police during the course of the week are not linked to the Guyana Police Force, Public Relations Officer Jairam Ramlakhan said yesterday.
APNU Councillor Ubraj Narine is the new Mayor of Georgetown.
Narine, who won Constituency One (Kingston East and West, Thomas Lands, Nonpareil Park, Cummingsburg, Alberttown and Queenstown) at the November 12th local polls, was elected when the new councillors of the municipality met today.
Public Health Minister and People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Chairperson Volda Lawrence is facing scrutiny over a suggestion that party officials elected to public offices should show preference to fellow party members in hiring and the award of contracts.
The Berbice Bridge Company Incorporated (BBCI) has mounted a legal challenge to government’s takeover of the operations of the bridge and the authority of the Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson to prevent it from instituting increases.
A state-of-the-art mega-farm in the intermediate Savannahs in Region 10 is expected to begin early next year as a Brazilian investment group has signalled their intentions to start a huge three-phase project.
Dr Jan Mangal, former petroleum advisor to President David Granger, has said he advised government against investing in the development of the now shelved onshore oil and gas supply facility at Crab Island, in Region Six, as the proposal did not go through the due diligence needed for the investment, which would have required billions of taxpayers’ dollars.
Four persons who are accused of murdering a Tain mother in February, last year, in her home, were yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court in Berbice.
The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) will be collaborating with colleagues overseas regarding a money-laundering probe involving Nalinie Singh, the daughter of former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) General Manager Jagnarine Singh.
