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Citizen and Environment and Democracy Advocate, Simone Mangal-Joly has penned an open letter to President Irfaan Ali strongly criticising the appoint-ees to the Environmental Assess-ment Board (EAB) which she suggests renders it incapable of professionally fulfilling its mandate due to glaring conflicts of interest.
Seventy-one-year-old Stella Parhoo, one of the persons involved in the gruesome Greenwich Park accident on the East Bank of Essequibo (EBE), succumbed to her injuries on Friday afternoon taking the death toll from the accident to five.
A man was last night shot at Kamboat on Sheriff Street.
Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday said that bollards will be erected around key electrical installations and he denied a claim by former Public Works Minister David Patterson that GPL was purchasing cheap plastic products.
(The Hill.com) The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing ExxonMobil over racial discrimination after multiple nooses were found at one of the company’s facilities.
While paperwork pertaining to the lands for their machining project at the former Guyana Sugar Corporation [GuySuCo] Enmore packaging plant is yet to be completed, the Guysons joint venture, Guysons K+B Industries, is in the meantime working at the West Ruimveldt location, sources close to the company say.
Leader of the Alliance For Change, Khemraj Ramjattan on Friday said that his party believes that the planned Palmyra stadium and multipurpose facility on the Corentyne should have been discussed in the National Assembly as he called the project an example of “bad governance”.
A new library was opened yesterday at the Mon Repos Primary School on the East Coast of Demerara through the efforts of ‘Spread the Words’, a group led by Laura Ryan.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on March 8th, 2023 convened a meeting of the Multi-Agency Coordinating Committee (MACC) to address the influx of migrants from Venezuela into Guyana.
A Good Hope, East Bank Essequibo fisherman is currently in police custody pending charges for having in his possession seven grammes of cocaine, discovered during a search by a police patrol on Friday, in the Anna Regina car park, Essequibo Coast.
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday said that it has been made aware of and condemns in the strongest possible manner a public statement broadcast on the platform of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), at which the Leader of the Opposition was participating.
One hundred and sixty-nine residents of Buxton and surrounding communities on the East Coast Demerara graduated from four Technical and Vocational Disciplines through the Board of Industrial Training on Friday.
In a move to ensure that beneficiaries of the national housing programme can access their lots before year-end, engineers attached to the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) fanned out across the country on Friday with contractors to identify each contractor’s respective lot(s) for infrastructure development.
Sohan Goolab called ‘Shortman’, a 49-year-old fisherman of Anns Grove Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara, was arrested on Wednesday, March 8 and charged on Friday with the possession of 4 grammes of cocaine.
An Essequibo Coast man appeared at the Suddie Magistrate’s Court on Thursday for the offences of driving under the influence of alcohol.
An inspection was today done by Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall along with Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar at the Parika Market Complex where the debris from the fire-ravaged market has been cleaned out and works for the formation of its foundation have once again started.
The horrific crash at Greenwich Park, Essequibo on March 6th has claimed a fifth victim.
Arising out of its request for assistance from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2021, the Government of Guyana yesterday inked a US$34 million contract with German-headquartered company, Veridos, for the production and rollout of an electronic citizenship card that consolidates the data of the holder, providing for easier access to public and private sector services.
Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall SC has vehemently condemned statements made by Tacuma Ogunseye, executive member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), including for persons to be “battle ready” Ogunseye, while at a WPA meeting on Thursday night in the village of Buxton on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) made several claims about the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) using the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Defence Force in the past to “execute” Africans and encouraged his ethnic group, especially those who are members of the Joint Services, to be “battle ready” for a “fight.”
With effect from March 1st contracted teachers who wish to travel out of the country no longer have to provide a transport/title or guarantor.
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