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Walter Narine, the Georgetown municipality’s Solid Waste Director, plans to seek legal advice after being informed by City Hall that he must repay over $900,000 for costs incurred when he contracted a private firm last year to dispose of garbage for the city.
The Ministry of Housing and Water yesterday signed 40 contracts valued $1.1 billion to ensure adequate infrastructure at housing estates.
(Trinidad Guardian) Officials at the Port of Port-of-Spain stopped millions of dollars in equipment from being loaded unto the Carabia, a vessel bound for Guyana, after discovering several discrepancies in the documents presented.
The origin of a fire that gutted the Singh’s building on Regent Street on Sun-day was still to be determined up to yesterday.
CARICOM yesterday congratulated the President-elect of the United States, Joseph Biden, on his victory in the elections of 2 November.
While convicted killer Dhupaul Singh argues that the sentence of life imposed against him with a possibility of parole after 25 years is severe, the Director of Public Prosecutions has defended the sentence, arguing that when one considers the aggravating factors, the sentence is justified.
ExxonMobil’s subsidiary here is seeking transport services as it expands its operations.
One new COVID-19 fatality was yesterday recorded which increased Guyana’s death toll to 135.
An internal investigation has implicated three employees of the City Treasurer’s Department in fraud and one of them has since walked off the job.
The Ministry of Health today said that one more person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.
A man was fatally shot today after he entered the home of Timehri North businessman, Baldeo Rampersaud.
Shortly after 8:30 last night, fire destroyed the 136 Regent Street Singh’s Store and a tent in the lot next door which formerly housed the Sachi building which was ravaged by fire in February of this year.
The container which was suspected to have had 11.5 tonnes of cocaine amid scrap metal was scanned at a city port of exit but it appears that the images were altered or deleted, sources close to the investigation say.
Persons who invested with Accelerated Capital Firm Inc (ACFI) seeking big returns are now at risk of losing their money as the companies which piloted the trading of the funds have since terminated their contracts with the firm.
The Plaisance/Industry NDC issued a cease order on November 5th over a controversial construction at Area J, Industry, East Coast Demerara which residents had complained about.
The audit of ExxonMobil’s US$460 million pre-contract costs has been completed and the report was handed to the Department of Energy to be forwarded to the company for its response, Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Commissioner-General Godfrey Statia yesterday said.
The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) yesterday shared cleaning supplies to residents of Great Troolie Island, Essequibo Islands-West Demerara after it was hit by spring tide flooding recently.
A mother got the shock of her life when she found her missing son on Wednesday in the morgue of the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Two busloads of Haitian nationals are currently in custody after a covert operation intercepted them on the Mabura-to-Lethem Trail on Saturday and law enforcers are investigating a possible smuggling ring, police sources yesterday said.
Joanne Jardim, tourism pioneer and the developer of the Shanklands Resort on the Essequibo River has passed away, according to former Minister of Tourism, Cathy Hughes.
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