Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia Less than one month after resigning as Local Government Minister, Ganga Persaud has already picked up a job, though short term, at the Ministry of Health, according to well-placed sources. Persaud is the Coordinator of a three-month survey on Behavioural Change for the National AIDS Programme Secretariat which comes under ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia Departmental heads along with other stakeholders in the local agriculture sector on Monday met to offer input on the implementation of a European Union funded €11.7M project aimed  at creating and strengthening the regional and national sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures. The project, ‘Support to the Caribbean Forum of ACP States ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia A former American soldier was killed when the high-powered bike he was riding crashed into a utility pole on the Clifton Village Public Road, Corentyne. Dead is 37-year old Vincent Indhal formerly of the United States and Cromarty Farm, Corentyne. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Port Mourant ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia The European Union (EU) on Monday promised to provide assistance to the Office of the Ombudsman during a meeting with the first such office holder in eight years, Justice Winston Moore. Moore held talks with Head of Delegation of the European Union [EU] to Guyana Ambassador Robert Kopecký, Political Officer, ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia World Bank Economist Laurence Clarke died in Mozambique after a battle with pancreatic cancer, the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) said on Monday. He was 63 years old. “Laurence had a long and distinguished banking career both locally and internationally,” the part with which he had an association said in ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia Ganga Persaud, who recently resigned as Local Government Minister, has refused to attend sittings of the National Assembly and could soon be replaced, a top Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) official said Monday.  “The comrade has taken positions on a voluntary basis,” PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee told a news conference ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia The Peoples Progressive Party’s (PPP) General Secertary , Clement Rohee on Monday saId that while his party was ready for Local Government elections, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) was not ready to hold the polls. Rohee would not be drawn into saying whether President Donald Ramotar would sign into law ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia United States Ambassador, Brent Hardt on Sunday rejected government’s claim that the US$1.2 million Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project was aimed at pushing constitutional reform. “Let me make clear what LEAD is not: LEAD will not provide any funding to political parties. It does not seek to promote any changes ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia Three persons were injured in an between a car and a ‘bush truck’ on the Soesdyke Highway early Sunday night. They were rushed to a hospital. The accident occurred about 7 PM One passerby, who is a credible Citizen Reporter, told Demerara Waves Online News that the truck appeared to ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia Fire Chief, Marlon Gentle on Sunday said that although several fire fighters late last year passed examinations promotion were not automatic. “Exams are not the only criteria. Not because you pass an examination you’re automatically promoted,” he told Demerara Waves Online News. The others, he said, included performance on the ...