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Continuous Professional Development Programme to be used for teacher promotions, other benefits

Teachers in Guyana, who successfully complete Online courses for their continuous professional development, will eventually be considered for promotions and increased salaries, Chief Education Officer (CEO) Saddam Hussain said. “We hope we can connect it somehow to the promotion system; the senior promotion system in the country for senior teachers,” he told the virtual launch of the programme at the ...

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Pastor’s father killed in West Coast Demerara fire

A man was burnt to death and the building that housed three entities at Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara was destroyed by fire, authorities said. Police identified the dead man as 60-year old Rajendra Mohabir. The building, at Lot 194 7th Street, housed the dwelling, a supermarket and “Touching Your World Ministry” church. The late Mohabir occupied the building with ...

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Guyanese cultural icon Alan Fenty dies

Well-known Guyanese cultural icon and folklorist, Allan Fenty, died early Saturday morning at his residence, a family associate confirmed. He was 78 years old. Sources said Fenty was unwell, but he was in the yard up to Friday afternoon. Fenty was host of the popular weekly television programme, Cook-up Show, and he was a decades-long Stabroek newspaper columnist under the ...

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APNU+AFC gov’t, ExxonMobil had no agreement for Guyana to pay for new headquarters -Mahipaul

Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian Ganesh Mahipaul on Friday said his then governing coalition and ExxonMobil never agreed that the US$160 million that would be spent on building a new headquarters building at Ogle, East Coast Demerara would be recovered from oil revenues. “I’m guided that there were discussions and there was no agreement with ...

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Guyana risked significant investment fallout if oil agreement was scrapped, renegotiated

President Irfaan Ali on Friday sought to justify the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration’s decision not to scrap or renegotiate the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) between government and the ExxonMobil-owned Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL). While in opposition, the PPPC had criticised the PSA that had been inked by the A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change ...

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BREAKING: Parika Market on fire

Fire was Friday afternoon destroying stalls at Parika Market near the stelling, according to eyewitnesses. The many wooden stalls were being engulfed by flames. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. Stallholders usually sell fruits, vegetables, electronic items, clothing and other items. The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph and the Guyana Post Office Corporation are located nearby the market.

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PPP, APNU+AFC aware of ExxonMobil’s new headquarters deal- Routledge

Even as the National Assembly awaits replies from Natural Minister Vickram Bharrat to an opposition coalition question in the National Assembly about who would be paying for ExxonMobil’s just under US$160 million new headquarters at Ogle and how spending on the project is being monitored, a top company official on Thursday said both major political parties were aware of the ...

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Gas to energy project awaits review with govt- ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil is awaiting the outcome of a review of the multi-million United States (US) dollar gas-to-energy project before making its Final Investment Decision (FID), though preliminary works have started along the route of the pipeline in the West Bank Demerara, a senior official said Thursday. “We are in review process with the Ministry of Natural Resources currently on the Field ...

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Trio charged with laundering GY$4.1 billion after undercover probe

The Guyana Police Force said its Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), on Wednesday laid 268 charges of Money Laundering and conspiracy to launder over $4.1B against a Herstelling, East Bank Demerara family after close to three years of investigation. Charged are Kenneth Kellawan Ramnarine, a taxi driver, Damian Brandon Ramnarine, a salesman and Yevette Nalini Saroop, a businesswoman, all of ...

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