PARIS, (Reuters) – France is to sign a deal with Cuba next week to ease the Caribbean island nation’s bilateral debt to Paris during a visit by the Cuban president to the French capital, a diplomatic source said yesterday.
(Press release from Office of Antiguan Prime Minister) ST JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda – 30thJanuary, 2016…….Twelve
Shawn Harris called ‘Shawny’ or ‘Bruk Up’ and Timothy Asher Morrison, 26, are wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the robbery under arms committed on the Bank of Baroda at Mon Repos, ECD, on 2016-01-22.
Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, Rickford Vieira has been dismissed.
Measures 6.1 Mr. Speaker, a range of measures are being proposed in this budget.
Introduction1.1 Mr. Speaker, I rise to move the motion for the approval of the Estimates of the Public Sector and the Budget for the Financial Year 2016 and, in doing so, I wish to indicate that Cabinet has recommended that the National Assembly proceed upon this motion, pursuant to Article 171 Paragraph 2 of the Constitution of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana.
Finance Minister Winston Jordan is expected to announce a reduction in fuel prices and increases in the income tax threshold and the old age pension during his 2016 national budget presentation this afternoon, Stabroek News has learned.
The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) today said that there has been a further decrease in the level of the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC), which supplies the city, due to the prolonged dry season.
One of the priorities of the incoming Board of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) will be to oversee a programme to certify miners in the areas of maintenance and construction of mining pits.
Police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for Gary Mervin Primo, who is being sought for questioning in connection with the disappearance of two men, including a national footballer, who have not been seen since last September.
Robbery accused Daymeion Millington had implicated now dead fugitive Rolston Morrison as one of the men who carried out the home invasion attack on Justice Nicola Pierre and her family, a police witness testified yesterday.
With Trinidad now as its sole fuel provider, Guyana is mulling following sister Caricom countries in search of additional suppliers to ensure fuel security here, Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson says.
Pastor Winston Cramer, who was found guilty of causing the death of pedal cyclist Lennox Allicock by dangerous driving, was yesterday fined $100,000 by a city court.
Out of 177,734 acres of rice sown so far, 39,601 acres or 22% have been affected by the current dry weather conditions, according to Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) General Manager Nizam Hassan.
Two government ministers yesterday told a visiting delegation from Norway that Guyana is committed to continuing a 2009 forest pact with the Scandinavian country.
A drug courier, who was held at the Ogle International Airport, is now a patient under guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), where he has been excreting pellets filled with the drug.
Despite dry weather conditions faced by rice farmers, the Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary-Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA) is confident that they will have water throughout the current crop cycle as water levels have started to rise.
An ex-convict was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with chopping off a man’s finger and threatening to kill a couple.
Members of the new board of the Guyana Power and Light Company Incor-porated (GPL) were yesterday appointed and while they were given a series of administrative issues to act upon, they were also charged to ensure proper consumer services are provided.
Shakir Mohamed, who was on trial for the murder of Shewraney Doobay, was yesterday freed after Justice Navindra Singh upheld a no-case submission made by defence attorney Maxwell McKay.
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