The Government Analyst Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) has had an interesting 2016 and this year all efforts will be placed on obtaining international accreditation, building staff capacity and re-operationalizing the laboratory to ensure that the public is better served, Director Marlan Cole says.
Many of the recommendations made in the 2015 forensic audit into the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) have been implemented but the Board has decided that the company should not be liquidated.
The highest ranked policewoman in the Guyana Police Force Maxine Graham has been promoted to Assistant Commissioner.
January Wales Estate closure announced Government announced the closure of the Wales sugar estate by way of a surprise statement issued from the Ministry of Agriculture.
In 2016 the Ministry of Public Health recorded 9,415 new cases of malaria, 842 cases of dengue fever, 35 lab confirmed cases of zika and 135 cases of chikungunya.
A meeting between the government and stakeholders in the sugar industry has resulted in the government encouraging the parliamentary opposition and sugar unions to make their own recommendations about the future of sugar in Guyana.
Despite City Hall being cash strapped and unable to help boost community development following the March 18, Local Government Elections, Constituency 14 has made progress, Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan said, through the assistance of central government and private/public partnerships.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council yesterday welcomed a ceasefire in the Syrian civil war, but rebel groups threatened to abandon the two-day-old truce if violations persisted.
The young mother of 13-year-old Christopher Boucher, who is suffering from a perforating corneal laceration to his left eye, is appealing to the public for assistance to get her son the eye surgery he needs abroad.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities yesterday released former opposition governor and presidential candidate Manuel Rosales from house arrest and freed five lesser-known anti-government activists from prison, Rosales said via Twitter.
As we enter the New Year many—as they have done in the past—would have made resolutions they hope to keep during the year.
BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Three bombs killed 29 people in Baghdad yesterday as fighting intensified in the northern city of Mosul, where Iraqi government forces are trying to rout Islamic State militants from their last major stronghold in the country.
While there are still no tablets being stored at the Sussex Street bond, the facility is being used to store medicines, medical supplies and medical equipment.
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – A gunman shot his way into an Istanbul nightclub packed with New Year’s revellers early today, killing at least 35 people and wounding more than 40 in what the provincial governor described as a terrorist attack.
Police yesterday arrested the prime suspect in the murder of West Coast Demerara (WCD) pensioner Bibi Keneiz and he has since confessed to the crime.
Homicides detectives probing the murder of pensioner Bibi Keneiz of Cornelia Ida, W.C.D,
ISTANBUL/ANKARA, (Reuters) – A gunman shot his way into an Istanbul nightclub packed with New Year’s revellers early on Sunday, killing at least 35 people and wounding more than 40 in what the provincial governor described as a terrorist attack.
President David Granger today announced the appointment of the following persons as Senior Counsel “on account of their exemplary experience, erudition, excellence and diligence in the practice of the law, with effect from January 1, 2017”.
(Trinidad Guardian) Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) President General Ancel Roget yesterday announced that the union will serve strike notice on State-owned Petrotrin on Wednesday.
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