Last Updated on Sunday, 9 July 2017, 15:57 by Denis Chabrol The newly implemented drug procurement system requires successful suppliers to register all drugs with the Government Analyst Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD). This is to ensure that quality drugs and medical supplies are acquired through the procurement system. This was highlighted during a presentation by Technical Advisor to the ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 8 July 2017, 19:49 by Denis Chabrol More than 14 kilogrammes of marijuana were seized in Berbice and East Coast Demerara on Saturday and a total of seven persons were arrested, police said. The Guyana Police Force said an intelligence -led operation in New Amsterdam, Berbice Saturday morning has resulted in the arrest of six persons ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 8 July 2017, 18:35 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Police Force on Saturday announced promotions to the rank of Corporal to Sergeant, Lance Corporal and Constable to Corporal and Constable to Lance Corporal. Those promotions have been approved by the Commissioner of Police with effect from July 08, 2017, on the occasion of the Guyana Police Force 178th ...

Last Updated on Friday, 7 July 2017, 18:47 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government has to hire a “top accounting firm” to help assess the value of assets of the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) to be sold, and GYD$130 million have been allocated for a Special Purpose Unit to spearhead the sale. The announcement was made Thursday in the National ...

Last Updated on Friday, 7 July 2017, 16:49 by Denis Chabrol Four Haitian children and one young adult were injured early Friday morning when the hire car they were travelling in toppled several times after hitting a donkey on the Number 53 Village Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice. The driver, who is a member of the Guyana Fire Service, has been ...

Last Updated on Friday, 7 July 2017, 22:04 by Denis Chabrol The constitutionality of Guyana’s State Assets Recovery Act (SARA) is being challenged in the High Court with the aim of having the law scrapped altogether. In what is believed to be the first ever legal action in Guyana against an entire law, citizen Ramon Gaskin on Friday filed court ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 6 July 2017, 23:30 by Denis Chabrol Guyana lacks the capacity to deal with an expected huge influx of invoices from the United States (US) oil giant, ExxonMobil, is set to begin submitting in the coming months, even as industry experts on Thursday said invoices and payments by international oil companies must be examined in detail. ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 6 July 2017, 20:54 by Denis Chabrol The Caribbean Arrest Treaty was formally signed this afternoon by the leaders of Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Lucia. Guyana’s Department of Public Information said the  objective of this Treaty is to establish within the Caribbean Community a system of arrest and surrender of requested ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 6 July 2017, 13:13 by Denis Chabrol As Guyana prepares to enact a raft of laws to govern several aspects of the oil and gas industry, an American legal expert on the sector on Thursday said much would depend on the integrity of public officials, a vigilant press and a public that demands transparency. “You can ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 6 July 2017, 12:18 by Denis Chabrol Twenty-seven year old Tecona Welcome of 39 Austin Street, Campbellville made another appearance in the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court , this time charged with causing death by dangerous driving. Welcome appeared before Magistrate Alisha George who read the indictable charge that on June 24, 2017 at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara ...