President David Granger on Friday expressed satisfaction with Minister of State Joseph Harmon’s conduct in China and said that their longstanding friendship did not cloud his views on the matter.
According to the report of the Forensic Audit of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), over half of the claims records requested for analysis could not be produced.
(Trinidad Guardian) The owner of the Claxton Bay bar where a teen bandit was beaten so badly by his “victims” that he never regained consciousess after he was hospitalised feels no joy he is dead.
COLOMBO (Reuters) – United Nations human rights experts yesterday urged SriLanka, which is under scrutiny for its human rights record during the 26-year Tamil insurgency, to implement judicial reforms to speed up prosecutions.
The Ministry of Public Health in collaboration with charity organisation, Guyana Help The Kids (GHTK) today opened the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Bartica Regional Hospital in Region 7 (Cuyuni/Mazaruni).
On Thursday, PPP/C MP Irfaan Ali is scheduled to move a motion in Parliament calling for the resumption of negotiations with Venezuela for the sale of rice and paddy.
(Trinidad Guardian) The owner of the Claxton Bay bar where a teen bandit was beaten so badly by his “victims” that he never regained consciousess after he was hospitalised feels no joy he is dead.
City Hall yesterday shut the door on any resumption of vending at Stabroek square, while promising vendors upset over their removal that the temporary site for their relocation would be ready by today.
It is too early to see the results of the measures government has put in place to fight crime, President David Granger said yesterday, while adding that overtures made to the UK will soon see a fresh approach to security sector reform.
Three men, including a security guard who police say aided in the planning, were yesterday charged with stealing almost $9 million from the Ramada Princess Hotel casino and their lawyers told a city court that they were abused while in custody.
Curt Thomas, the man accused of murdering Parika fuel dealer Seeram Singh, was yesterday charged with the crime and remanded to prison, all while professing his innocence.
The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) yesterday managed to secure a temporary High Court order preventing the GuySuCo from re-deploying and dismissing sugar workers stationed at the Wales Estate until a consultation is held between the two unions and the corporation in keeping with the law.
President David Granger yesterday said that he supports the efforts of the Mayor and City Council to clean up and restore order to the Stabroek Square but regrets the delay in readying the alternative site for displaced vendors.
The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday condemned the forced relocation of vendors from the Stabroek Market square, calling it both “anti-people” and “anti-poor.”
Eight months after she first took up her post in Caracas, Guyana’s Ambassador to Venezuela Cheryl Miles was finally able to present her credentials to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Last October’s ‘Exercise Greenheart,’ which was aimed at testing the preparedness of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), saw the expenditure of an additional $410M for which approval from the National Assembly is being sought.
A third suspect was yesterday charged with the murder of Habiboodean, the elderly Ruby, East Bank Essequibo businessman who was fatally beaten in his home eight years ago.
Zafar Khan, the truck driver who ran over an 82-year-old woman at Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara, on Tuesday, has been charged with causing her death.
An absent Rawle Brammer, who was charged last November with having 154 grammes of cannabis at his home for trafficking, was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail after being found guilty.
The conduct of some members of the National Assembly was on Wednesday called into question by Speaker Barton Scotland even as opposition MP Juan Edghill was sent to the Privileges Committee for a statement he made last year and Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman and Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira called for each other to be sent to the said committee.
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