Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan says billions of revenue dollars are not represented in the $220B national budget thereby denying the House a true picture of the state of the country’s finances. Speaking on the last day of the budget debate Tuesday Ramjattan said the government had withheld more than $30B ...
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Woman chops niece severely during drinking spree
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia A 17-year old girl from Hubu Hill , Mabaruma was brutally stabbed about her body early Tuesday morning by her aunt at the North West District community. Critically injured is Lynette Morgow who was stabbed several times about her abdomen and chest by her aunt during a drinking spree close ...
Read More »Sasenarine Singh resigns from AFC
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia Outspoken Alliance For Change (AFC) executive member, Sasenarine Singh has resigned from that party, citing “personal reasons” but he appeared to still endorse it. Singh told AFC General Secretary, David Patterson in the resignation letter dated April 8 that he would re-enter politics after remigrating. Singh gave no indication that he ...
Read More »Barama worker jailed for fraud
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia An employee of Barama Company Limited was Tuesday jailed for two years for falsely pretending that he was authorised to collect GUY$92,000 from a cambio dealer. City Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan imposed the jail term on Oswin Lewis after he pleaded guilty to committing the offence on March 17. With ...
Read More »More parental involvement needed to equip children for school – Manickchand
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia Minister of Education Priya Manickchand is calling for greater parental involvement to prepare children for school life. She made the call during Monday’s budget debate where she stated that a recent research involving children entering the nursery level revealed less than heartening findings. “We found that the things children should ...
Read More »Policeman charged with felonious wounding
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia A policeman was Tuesday arraigned for allegedly wounding a man when his service revolver discharged a round. Lance Corporal, Atlyn Brown, who is attached to the Brickdam Impact Base, was granted GUY$250,000 bail after he pleaded not guilty to the charge. He is accused of feloniously wounding Maurice Porter on ...
Read More »T&T Health Minister: Mt. Hope nurses were attending
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia (TRINIDAD GUARDIAN).-Guyanese national Vidya Bachu decided to leave the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope, with her ailing husband Jeetindra Sookram although he was being attended to by nurses. Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan made the statement during a press conference at the ministry at Park Street, Port-of-Spain, yesterday. He ...
Read More »BUDGET DEBATE: Bond laments “pittance” for justice sector
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia APNU parliamentarian James Bond has lamented the $1.8B allocated for the justice sector in this year’s $220B national budget calling it “a pittance.” Speaking during the budget debate on Monday Bond said he was happy about the five percent increase in GDP but as a lawyer he was less than ...
Read More »Guyana alarmed at T&T minister’s health insurance call
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has expressed alarm at the reported call from a Trinidadian minister about health insurance for non-nationals in the twin-island republic. Her comments came on Monday as debate continued on the 2014 budget and four days after a Guyanese national died after being refused ...
Read More »Alleged cocaine-in-pastry trafficker refused bail
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia The Berbice man, who allegedly attempted to smuggle cocaine-in-pastries early Monday morning to New York was hours later arraigned in a City Court for drug trafficking. Thirty-seven year old Nicholas Harinandan of 603 Fort Ordinance, Canje pleaded not guilty and was refused bail when he appeared before Chief Magistrate, Priya ...
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