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The opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) yesterday said that it had received the correct names of the directors of the company involved in the controversial D’Urban Park Development Project (DPDP) and Minister of Education, Dr.
Claims by Kaieteur News columnist Freddie Kissoon that Cuban-trained Guyanese doctors are “hopelessly incompetent” are reckless and baseless, according to the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH).
People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) General Secretary Oscar Clarke says the pension package proposed for former Prime Minister Hamilton Green was brokered by his party while it was in government but the succeeding PPP/C administrations failed to act on it up to when it lost power last year.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Barton Scotland on Monday decided that a motion in the name of PPP/C MP Irfaan Ali calling for an immediate forensic audit into the Georgetown City Council including the controversial parking meter project could not be debated in the house since “the matter was sub judice.”
The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) says that it is currently working fervently with a consulting company to craft debarment procedures, a measure that should have been in place long ago.
Government used its majority early yesterday morning to defeat a motion by the opposition for the report of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the public service to be sent to a parliamentary select committee for further study.
![A 55-year-old farmer was yesterday jailed for cultivating cannabis, which he said he was growing in order to rebuild his house after it was burned.
John Antonio, who said he lost his house as well as three sons, lost his freedom yesterday when he was sentenced to three years in jail.
His wife, Diane Daniels, was also charged with the crime, but a not guilty plea was entered on her behalf after she said she had no knowledge of the cannabis plants.
“My house burned, my three sons died and I don’t have a proper house. [I] was just trying to build a proper house for myself,” Antonio said, after he was asked by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan why he cultivated cannabis.
The charge against Antonio and Daniels stated that on November 19, at Hotoquai Village, in the North West District, they cultivated cannabis.
In addition to pleading guilty, Antonio supported his wife’s claim that she had no knowledge of the plants.
Police prosecutor Neville Jeffers a party of police, acting on information, went to the defendants’ home, where conducted a search but found nothing.
However, based on further information received, they proceeded to the farm owned by the defendants and discovered a plot of land containing a quantity of cannabis plants, about 4 feet in height and numbering about 400.
According to the prosecutor, the defendants admitted to the crime. Samples were also taken from the farm along with photographs and the remainder of the plants destroyed by fire, he added.In addition to the three-year sentence, Antonio was also fined $15,000.
His wife will remain behind bars until her next court appearance, which is scheduled for February 21, 2017, at the Mabaruma Magistrate’s Court.](https://s1.stabroeknews.com/images/2016/11/20161123John-Antonio-260x160.jpg)
A 55-year-old farmer was yesterday jailed for cultivating cannabis, which he said he was growing in order to rebuild his house after it was burned.
A 63-year-old Mahaicony woman reportedly ended her life yesterday by setting herself on fire shortly after an argument with her daughter-in-law.
Bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the construction of a Police Station at Parfait Harmonie.
The government shifted the presentation of the Estimates of Revenues and Expenditure for the financial year 2017 to November 28, to accommodate the PPP/C’s upcoming congress as its dates would have clashed with the debates, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan, said on Monday while subtly chiding Parliament for announcing the new date and not giving him the opportunity to so.
Murder accused Devindra Ruplall yesterday denied being at the scene or having anything to do with the death of his drinking partner, Suresh Goberdan.
Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Green and Town Clerk Royston King are currently in Shanghai, China attending a global health conference organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the People’s Republic of China.
General Manager of the Bosai Minerals Group Robert Shang is unsure what the company intends to do with Reunion Gold Corporation’s, Matthews Ridge Manganese Project, which it recently purchased for US$10 million, as discussions are still ongoing.
Residents of the Farm/ Le Destin Backlands, East Bank Essequibo have heaped praises on the Good Hope/ Hydronie Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) for providing them with a separate entrance to the area.Residents
Workers attached to the Port Mourant market are on strike over the non-payment of their salaries for several months.
A Lodge resident is now behind bars after being charged with possession of over 200 grammes of cannabis for trafficking.
The recently established Public Procurement Com-mission (PPC) has advertised its three top posts as it aims for an early January ‘mostly functional’ secretariat.
The preliminary inquiry into the charges against Alfie Garraway, Janiel Howard and Leroy Williams, the three men accused of throwing a grenade outside Kaieteur News, continued on Monday with CCTV footage of the night in question being shown to the court.
Government used its majority early yesterday morning to defeat a motion by the opposition for the report of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the public service to be sent to a parliamentary select committee for further study.
Following a probe into the circumstances surrounding the death of Faiyaz Narinedatt, a carpenter of No.
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