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Monthly Archives: June 2015

Guyana asks UK for support against Venezuela’s aggression

Last Updated on Friday, 12 June 2015, 2:24 by GxMedia Guyana’s President, David Granger Thursday night appealed to the United Kingdom (UK) to support his country in staving off Venezuela’s increasingly aggressive claim to Essequibo and the coastal waters off that mineral and forest rich region. “We call on all states, particularly the United Kingdom during the regime of which ...

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Criminally culpable will be prosecuted, forensic audit starts at several govt agencies

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 June 2015, 19:34 by GxMedia by Zena Henry The new government has started its sweep into the financial practices employed by the former administration with forensic audits already underway at the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), the recently built Marriot Hotel and the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), to name a few. The government, ...

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Forestry, GRA, opposition, others to make up Go-Invest interim board

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 June 2015, 18:54 by GxMedia by Zena Henry The country’s investment consultancy agency, Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) is set to get an interim Board of Directors that will be made up of representatives of several agencies and stakeholders, Minister of State Joseph Harmon related Thursday June 11. The interim body will be set up ...

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Results of the National Grade Six Assessment 2015

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 June 2015, 18:41 by GxMedia NATIONAL GRADE SIX ASSESSMENT 2015 The results of the National Grade SixAssessment (NGSA) written on 01 April and 02 April 2015 are being released to schools.Fifteen thousandtwo hundred and twenty five (15,225)candidates were entered for this assessment. These candidates also wrote the National Grade Two Assessment in 2011 and the ...

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President gives Walter Rodney COI one month to hand over findings

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 June 2015, 17:49 by GxMedia by Zena Henry The government is not too happy with the amount of tax dollars that have gone into the former Ramotar-Administration initiated Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry so it is giving the body one more sitting following which a report of their findings is to be handed over to ...

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PetroCaribe fund empty, government needs US15M for rice farmers, GuySuCo bailout undetermined

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 June 2015, 17:19 by GxMedia by Zena Henry The new Administration has apparently got its work cut out as several of the country’s main cash earners are either broke or continuously requiring bailout sums. Minister of State, Joseph Harmon during Cabinet’s weekly press briefing held at Ministry of the Presidency Thursday June 11 explained that ...

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Parliament’s webcast welcomed; stimulates variety of comments

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 June 2015, 10:12 by GxMedia Parliament on Wednesday stepped into the 21st Century when it brought Online its Parliamentary Live –Streaming Project which allowed Guyanese in Guyana and abroad to observe the goings on during the first sitting of the 11th Parliament. In addition to being able to see and listen to their newly-appointed Members ...

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NY Cocaine bust: Dad told daughter she was carrying diamonds

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 June 2015, 10:05 by GxMedia A woman who was busted for smuggling 10 kilos of cocaine to the U.S. from Guyana told authorities she thought the contraband was diamonds, a Brooklyn Federal Court complaint says. Alizah Henry, a U.S. citizen, was arrested over the weekend at Kennedy Airport after U.S. Customs and Border Protection cops ...

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Undone laws, border security, infrastructural development within 11th Parliament’s course

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 June 2015, 1:27 by GxMedia by Zena Henry The course of the 11th Parliament has been set with President David Granger outlining undone laws, border security, infrastructural development and empowerment of autonomous bodies, as key areas to be tended to. Addressing the National Assembly Wednesday June 10, exclusive of the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), ...

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PPPC’s parliamentary absence weakens oversight

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 June 2015, 1:00 by GxMedia The first sitting of the 11th Parliament took place on Wednesday, June 10th and the second sitting is slated for June 25th, but the refusal of the Opposition party to take up its seats can impede the functioning of some Parliamentary committees and degrade the scrutiny value of others. In ...

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