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 The latest Guyana news from Stabroek News including oil and gas coverage, crime, politics, culture, business and more.

Delegates at the Special COTED Meeting held last month (CARICOM photo)
Delegates at the Special COTED Meeting held last month (CARICOM photo)

CARICOM developing policy to phase out incandescent bulbs

With the  aim of improving energy efficiency and regulating the sector, CARICOM is in the process of developing a programme to phase out the use of incandescent bulbs, beginning as early as January 2019.

Journalists still to be issued with 2018 press passes

Journalists are without  media passes for this year according to the Guyana Press Association because it has had no formal response from the Department of Public Information (DPI) to its proposals for the GPA to issue the passes, GPA President Nazima Raghubir said on Monday.

Seated from left to right, Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr. Karen Boyle, Junior Public Health Minister, Dr. Karen Cummings, Senior Minister Volda Lawrence, Registrar of the General Nurses Council of Guyana Donette Kellman, and Chairperson of the Council Linda Johnson, flanked by other members of the newly installed board of the General Nurses Council of Guyana. (Department of Public Information Photo)

Breathe new life into Nurses Council of Guyana

The new board of the General Nurses Council of Guyana has been encouraged to “breathe new life into the council,” by Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence who welcomed the new body during yesterday’s installation ceremony.

Winston Brassington (right) and Ashni Singh, shackled at the hands on their way to the court lockups.

Political victimisation -Singh, Brassington charge

Denying any wrongdoings while they were in office, former Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh and former Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Winston Brassington yesterday charged that they were victims of political victimisation.

APNU and AFC in preliminary meeting on local gov’t polls

The Alliance For Change and A Partnership for National Unity – the governing coalition partners – on Monday held an ice-breaking meeting and are set to begin substantive talks this weekend that will determine if they will contest local government elections together.

Ministry of Public infrastructure website hacked

Anyone attempting to access the Ministry of Public Infrastructure website last evening was greeted by a message declaring the space owned by Egyptian Hackers, a development which has crystalized a fear expressed by local technological experts that Government’s Cyber security is not up to par.

[Video] Singh, Brassington placed on $6m bail each

Former Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh and former Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited, Winston Brassington were yesterday granted a total of $6m bail each after being read three counts of misconduct in public office when they appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s court.

The seized chicken and mosquito coils (GRA photo)

GRA sting yields chicken, mosquito coils

On May 2, 2018, following another sting operation on the Atlantic Ocean, Officers of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) intercepted a Motor Vessel containing hundreds of boxes of foreign chicken and mosquito coils.

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