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Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo this evening rejected a suggestion by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo that the motion of no confidence scheduled for debate in the National Assembly on Friday be deferred until next year as it falls just immediately before the Christmas holiday.

Former Minister of Home Affairs Ronald Gajraj, who also served as Guyana’s High Commissioner to India and Bangladesh died suddenly today.

The PPP/C’s no-confidence motion against the government will be debated next Friday, opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira confirmed today.

The Guyana Embassy in Cuba says that President David Granger will be returning to Guyana today after the second round of chemotherapy for his Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.

Two youths who live alongside each other in Cummings Lodge are now dead after the bike they were riding crashed into a jeep last night.

India’s Bank of Baroda (BoB) yesterday sought bids from investment bankers to carry out the sale of its Guyana-based subsidiary.

President David Granger this morning departed Guyana for  Cuba for a second round of treatment at the Centro de Investigaciones Médico Quirúrgicas (CIMEQ) and the next five cycles of chemotherapy will go all the way up to May next year, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said today.

PNCR Chairman and Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence today issued an apology over controversial statements she made at a PNCR event on November 25th which included that `jobs would only go to PNC people’.

Director, Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe this morning announced that US oil company ExxonMobil has made its 10th discovery offshore Guyana at the Pluma-1 well.

Ram and McRae’s budget focus has excoriated controversial statements made by Minister of Public Health and Chairman of the PNCR Volda Lawrence that public sector jobs will go to PNCR persons.

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. 

The Berbice Bridge Company Incorporated says it yesterday served Notice on Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, and the Attorney General that  legal proceedings have commenced in the High Court of the Supreme Court of Judicature over the government’s takeover of the bridge in a dispute about tolls.

PPP/C MP and former Minister of Housing Irfaan Ali has been slapped with 19 charges laid by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) in connection with the Pradoville 2 Housing Scheme on the East Coast of Demerara.

The Ministry of Finance today said the intended acquisition of Scotiabank by Republic Financial Holdings raises important regulatory questions which need to be carefully considered and it expressed regret that the Canada-based bank was pulling out of Guyana while the country was on the brink of financial transformation.

(Republic Financial Holdings) Port-of-Spain, Trinidad:  November 27, 2018 – Today, Republic Financial Holdings Limited (RFHL) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Scotiabank’s banking operations in Guyana, St.

(Reuters) TORONTO — Bank of Nova Scotia today reported fourth-quarter earnings which were marginally below expectations and said it planned to exit nine countries in the Caribbean as part of a shake-up of that business.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan today proposed lifting the income tax threshold to $780,000 per annum or one-third, whichever is greater, with effect from year of income 2019.

President David Granger, consistent with advice from his team of specialist doctors at the Centro de Investigaciones Medico Quirugicas (CIMEQ) in Havana, Cuba, continues to take precautionary measures in light of his recent diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a statement from the Ministry of the Presidency said tonight. 

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) today announced that that the eastern lane from Rupert Craig Highway to the Railway Embankment on Sheriff Street will be closed from Saturday, 24 November, 2018 for Sub grade works.

President David Granger and his wife,  Sandra Granger last night returned to Guyana from Cuba after spending approximately three weeks there, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.