-says there won’t be any more for Patterson to build Public Works Minister Juan Edghill yesterday defended the 2025 national budget and cited 505 contractors working on Linden roads as evidence of the scale of the government’s undertakings.
Given the current level of interest in some quarters concerning the introduction of biometrics at the Place of Poll for the upcoming General and Regional Elections, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has iterated its position that to introduce biometrics at the place of poll is not feasible within the time presently available before the elections are held later this year.
-says $9.6b in carbon credit revenue distributed to 248 villages Defending the 2025 budget, Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Campbell-Sukhai, on Tuesday highlighted efforts being made in job creation and youth empowerment and said that the Com-munity Service Officer (CSO) programme is not a “tool for political brigades”, Addressing the National Assembly, the Minister discussed what she described as the “reinvigorated” Community Support Officers Programme, which provides young Amerindians aged 18 to 35 with the opportunity to contribute to community development.
Twenty-one-year-old Isaiah Griffith, also called ‘Max’, appeared yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Acting Chief Magistrate Faith McGusty to face five charges of robbery under arms.
On Monday last, Vice Media published an interesting story in its Lifestyle section about a Danish restaurant manager who sourced all of her food from supermarket dumpsters in 2024 and as a result only had to spend US$99 at the grocery on other items for the entire year.
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CWI Regional 4-Day Championship – Looknauth captures 4/69 on debut By Michaelangelo Jacobus The 2025 Cricket West Indies (CWI) Regional 4-Day Championship bowled off in entertaining fashion at the Providence National Stadium, with defending champions Guyana Harpy Eagles locking horns with Barbados Pride.
Commenting on the recently presented Budget 2025, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) in a release on Wednesday described the policies outlined by Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance and the Public Service, Dr.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem cut the duration of deportation protections for 600,000 Venezuelans in the U.S.
WASHINGTON, – President Donald Trump’s administration appeared to abandon its proposed freeze on hundreds of billions of dollars in aid yesterday in the face of legal setbacks and widespread opposition, though officials said they still planned to cut funds for activities opposed by Trump.
