Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia Residents of East Bank Berbice on Tuesday picketed outside Parliament Building, threatening to prevent an Indian Arrival Day motorcade from passing if government does not fix the deplorable New Amsterdam to Mara Road.
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Speaker rules in favour of budget cuts
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman on Tuesday ruled that the opposition could amend the budget. Handing down his ruling the Speaker said though it was not expressly stated in the constitution it would be absurd to think the people’s representatives could not amend the budget.
Read More »Mahaicony businessman, passerby shot by bandit
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia A businessman was shot and robbed outside the High Court shortly after leaving a city commercial bank, reports say. A woman, who was passing by at the same time, was also shot when one of the bandits opened fire.
Read More »Speaker to rule on budget cuts admissibility
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman is to rule on Tuesday whether some GUY$35.5B in budget cuts proposed by the Alliance For Change (AFC) could be entertained in the House. A motion in the name of AFC’s Khemraj Ramjattan is before the House proposing an amendment to the government’s ...
Read More »CARILED appoints successor to Guyanese Naresh Singh
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia Alix Yule Two months after Guyanese Dr. Naresh Singh resigned as Programme Director of the Caribbean Local Economic Development Project (CARILED), he has been replaced by Canadian Alix Yule. Singh in mid February resigned from CARILED in his failed bid to become the Deputy Secretary General of the 15-nation Caribbean ...
Read More »Suspect in businesswoman’s robbery nabbed
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia One man has been arrested and police are hunting two others in connection with the armed robbery of almost half a million dollars from a businesswoman on the Corentyne.
Read More »Ramotar warns foreigners to stay clear of drug trade
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia President Donald Ramotar (left at lectern) addressing foreigners living and working in Guyana. President Donald Ramotar on Monday warned foreigners working here against getting involved in the drug trade and other illegal activities, while assuring them that immigration bottlenecks would addressed.
Read More »Guyanese boyfriend, son shot by NY policewoman
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia Gruesome: A body is removed from the home after the shootings (WALL STREET JOURNAL).-An off-duty New York Police Department officer apparently shot and killed her 1-year-old son and the boy’s father before fatally shooting herself inside her apartment in Brooklyn on Monday morning, a law enforcement official said.
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