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Politics

NPTAB defends decision to award GY$865.5 million pump contract to Tepui Group Inc; mum on company’s experience

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) on Wednesday defended its decision to award a GY$865,543,500 contract to construct a pump station at Belle Vue, West Bank Demerara, in the wake of a formal request by Alliance For Change (AFC) executive member and opposition parliamentarian David Patterson for Guyana’s Public Procurement Commission (PPC) to conduct a probe. NPTAB, in ...

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Guyanese police to be deployed to Haiti

An unspecified number of Guyanese police are to be deployed to Haiti to assist with the training of Haitian police as part of a United Nations-backed mission to take back the country from violent gangs and pave the way for long-overdue elections, according to well-placed sources. The number of Guyanese police has not yet been finalised, the United Nations Security ...

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City Council plans to present GY$77 million deficit late budget; hazy accountability for spending during 9 months

Ten months into the year, City Hall is this Thursday slated to present its GY$2.6 billion budget for 2023 budget with a deficit of GY$77.2 million, but there is no clear plan for how the Council would account for monies already spent for the year. The total bill for salaries, wages and allowances totals GY$1,340,648,272. According to figures seen by ...

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Opposition demands say in National Procurement and Tender Administration

A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU) parliamentarian, Ganesh Mahipaul on Sunday demanded that the opposition have a say in the processing and award of multimillion dollar contracts by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB). “We need to amend the Procurement Act of 2003 and revisit the composition of the evaluation committee and tender board. The body ...

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Boat load of Venezuelan migrants lands on East Bank Essequibo seashore

At least 45 Venezuelans arrived by boat at the Vergenoegen seashore, East Bank Essequibo and were processed by immigration before they were released to their already settled family members here, police said. Police said Guyanese immigration authorities accepted the migrants’ Venezuelan identification cards, not passports, processed and released the men, women and children. According to police, they have teamed up ...

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Former GDF Chief-of-Staff warns against large settlement of Venezuelans in Essequibo

The Guyana government should manage the migration of Venezuelans to Essequibo to stave off the possibility of future generations of Spanish-speaking Guyanese calling for a referendum for that county to break away, former Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Retired Rear Admiral Gary Best warned on Friday. “Successive Guyana governments must be nationalistic, meaning protecting Guyana’s sovereignty now, and ...

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US officials ask Guyana’s opposition for evidence of discrimination

United States (US) officials on Capitol Hill have asked a Guyanese opposition delegation for statistics showing alleged discrimination against Afro-Guyanese by the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC), opposition politicians said at a conference in Washington DC on Guyana’s political and economic conditions. Shadow Attorney General, Attorney-at-Law Roysdale Forde said “today, we were requested again to provide data of discrimination ...

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Patterson rejects police force apology for name on no-fly list; constitutional court action looms

The Guyana Police Force on Wednesday apologised publicly to opposition parliamentarian David Patterson for inadvertently keeping his name on an immigration department “watchlist” up to Tuesday but he hours later rejected the apology. “The Guyana Police Force would like to apologise to Member of Parliament Mr David Patterson, whose name inadvertently remained on an Immigration Department’s watchlist,” that civilian law ...

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Patterson’s name mistakenly left on ‘no-fly’ list- Police Commissioner

Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken said opposition parliamentarian David Patterson’s name mistakenly remained on the Immigration Department’s ‘no-fly’ list, causing the politician to miss a flight to the United States. Mr Patterson was expected to be part of an opposition A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance For Change delegation to attend a conference with other opposition lawmakers on the political ...

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City Council hopes to hammer out tax debt deal with Guyana Revenue Authority

A delegation of Georgetown City Councillors, Treasurer, Town Clerk and other officials were Wednesday morning hoping to negotiate with Commissioner of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Godfrey Statia the settlement of an almost GY$2 billion debt. “We have to show them that out of the meeting we had at the Finance (Committee) level, from the Council’s perspective what we can ...

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