Politics

Seven thousand more persons are to be trained by the Ministry of Labour’s Board of Industrial Training (BIT) for jobs that are relevant to the oil and gas sector and other job opportunities, Labour Minister Joseph Hamilton said Monday. Mr Hamilton told the National Assembly that the 2023 National Budget provides for the training of 7,000 more persons this year. ...

Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton on Monday announced that government was taking steps to dissolve cooperative societies that have not been cultivating lands for a long time. “Those that want to work for development, we will work with them but what we will not continue to have happen- people utilising the farcical umbrella of coop societies when they have government ...

Opposition Guyana Elections Commissioner Vincent Alexander and the GECOM Chairman Retired Justice Claudette Singh were Friday in a bitter disagreement over the “secondment” of the Information Technology Manager Aneal Giddings as an ‘Operations Coordinator’ in the Operations Department for this year’s Local Government Elections (LGE). Mr. Alexander, instead, maintained that the creation of the post of ‘Operations Coordinator’  and the  ...

Drainage relief works on the rugged and almost impassable Sandy Babb Street, Kitty, Georgetown accelerated on Friday with the breaking of several bridges across the thickly clogged gutters, but not without concerns that not all residents received notices from the government. Police were summoned to one of the residents, who refused to move his vehicle from his bridge because no ...

Faaiz Mursaline- the man who resigned from the post of Treasurer of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and later vented publicly his concerns about lack of accountability-would not be allowed to return to the post, according to that party’s executive. Though PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton did not provide details, he confirmed that Mr Mursaline was no longer a member ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday accused government of disguising GY$5 billion for political bribery  as cost of living relief in the 2023 National Budget. “The aim is to ensure there is no scrutiny and accountability and provide them with a slush fund for them to get richer,” he said. He said the opposition coalition of A Partnership for National ...

The Nigerian man-who stabbed a presidential guard several times at State House and grabbed another guard’s gun with which he fired several shots-was Thursday arraigned for attempted murder. Twenty-five year old  Ikena Chimezie appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan. He was also charged with discharging a loaded firearm with intent. He was arraigned for unlawfully and maliciously wounded with ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton on Thursday announced that Ms Dawn Hastings-Williams is their party’s new General Secretary. He described her as “eminently qualified” for the post which she takes over from Ms Geeta Singh-Edmond who resigned in mid-December, 2022. “She has the academic qualifications, she has the integrity. In my opinion, she has been ...

President Irfaan Ali said Guyana has named its representatives members of a high-level Joint Working Group with India that would discuss that Asian nation’s interest in being a long-term buyer of this South American nation’s crude oil, upgrading Guyana’s police and military and investing in agriculture. In the area of hydrocarbons, Dr Ali said he invited the Indian government to ...

Town Clerk of the City of Georgetown Candace Nelson has withdrawn City constables from Mayor Ubraj Narine’s current residence at Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara, saying that they are not allowed to operate outside Georgetown. “The Council has no jurisdiction outside of the City and if anything happens to the staff while they are in Pigeon Island, their lives are ...