Former President Donald Ramotar yesterday released a letter written by prominent businessman Brian Tiwarie pledging his support to the PPP a month before the May, 2015 general elections that ended the party’s 23-year reign.
Following recent reports of a foetus being mutilated at the Diamond Hospital, Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton has attributed the incident to negligence and stated that the responsible party will likely be sanctioned.
Using its one-seat majority, the government early Friday morning passed the sweeping Insurance Bill 2016 which fortifies a regulatory role for the Bank of Guyana and seeks to prevent a CLICO-type meltdown in the sector here.
The preliminary upgrade and rehabilitation of Carifesta Avenue and the Ogle Airport Road, respectively, are almost complete and these thoroughfares will be ready for use from today Junior Minister of Public Infrastructure Annette Ferguson has said.
President David Granger has called the elections promise by the APNU+AFC to reduce Value Added Tax (VAT) within its first 100 days in office “imprudent.”
President David Granger is not convinced that his ministers have been embarking on non-essential travel.
The remaining workers at a Robb Street building site, where a workman was electrocuted nearly three weeks ago, have since been equipped with safety gear and measures have been taken to cover up the wires in front of the building.
Guyanese, today, will have the opportunity to officially become acquainted with the Guyana Animation Network (GAN) as it makes its first public move on the way to securing a place in the global animation industry.
Battling a mystery illness for over a year, veteran actor and comedian Henry Rodney is preparing to travel overseas to seek a diagnosis.
Employees of Smart City Solutions on Tuesday demonstrated how parking meters proposed for the city would work if the highly controversial deal comes to fruition.
DAKAR, (Reuters) – It is the stuff of a disaster movie: an outbreak of yellow fever in Congo’s capital city, full of unvaccinated people mostly huddled together in slums with too few drains and the kind of sticky, fetid climate that mosquitoes love.
Rehabilitation works at the Kitty Market, which have been on hold for a month, are slated to resume next week, according to City Hall spokesperson Debra Lewis.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Justice Secretary Michael Gove pitched yesterday to be the prime minister to take Britain out of the EU, a day after he destroyed the chances of another frontrunner in what some colleagues called an act of treachery.
LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nearly 2,900 migrants have died trying to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea, making the first six months of 2016 the deadliest on record, according to figures published yesterday by an international migration group.
Officers of the Occupational Safety and Health Department of the Ministry of Social Protection yesterday handed over a report on working conditions at City Hall to Town Clerk Royston King, who assured its recommendations would be followed.
VIENNA, (Reuters) – Austria’s presidential election runoff must be held again, the Constitutional Court ruled yesterday, handing the Freedom Party’s narrowly defeated candidate another chance to become the first far-right head of state in the European Union.
The police force’s capacity to combat cybercrime is expected to be improved by the participation of four police officers in an upcoming workshop in the Dominican Republic, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon.
(Reuters) – A federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law intended to allow people who object on religious grounds to refuse wedding and other services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
(Trinidad Guardian) Bankers are frustrated over the long awaited passage and implementation of legislation for T&T to become FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) compliant.
The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charges against Ganga Krishna and Avishkar Bissoon, the welders charged with killing a man and his two young daughters after setting their Robb and King streets home on fire, began on Thursday with the emotional testimony of the mother of the two girls.
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