Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 June 2015, 22:51 by GxMedia by Zena Henry In his first address to the Parliament, President David Granger has once again called on the opposition to take their seats in National Assembly to represent the 49 percent of the population that would have voted for them at the recently held General and Regional Elections. At ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 June 2015, 21:13 by GxMedia Guyana will be asking the United Nations (UN) to take steps to settle the border controversy with Venezuela legally, days after that Spanish-speaking neighbour decided to claim all the territorial waters off Essequibo as hers, Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge said Wednesday. In a statement to the National Assembly on the ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 June 2015, 9:26 by GxMedia People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) candidate, Attorney – at – Law Euclin Gomes is moving to the High Court to challenge an alleged instruction by Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Simona Broomes, to the Public Service Commission (PSC) for it to temporarily cease interviews. Court documents seen by ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 August 2019, 16:45 by Writer CARACAS, June 10, 2015 (AFP) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday blamed Exxon Mobil for strains with neighboring Guyana over disputed territorial waters, and said diplomacy should ultimately win out. A decree issued by Caracas on May 27 lays claim to waters off the Essequibo River region, a disputed territory that borders ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 June 2015, 1:13 by GxMedia Veteran Guyanese legal expert on the Law of the Sea, Dr. Barton Scotland has been confirmed as the new Speaker of the 65-seat National Assembly. A usually reliable source in the coalition administration confirmed that Scotland, a former Guyanese diplomat, would be taking up his seat after he is voted ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 June 2015, 20:14 by GxMedia Permanent Secretary of the now defunct Ministry of Labour, Patrick Findlay on Tuesday became the latest such public officer to have been sent home following the change of government. A disappointed Findlay told Demerara Waves Online News that Senior Minister of Social Protection, Volda Lawrence summoned him to a meeting, ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 June 2015, 19:37 by GxMedia The Ministry of Finance is to implement stricter measures, including blacklisting persons from travelling, to rein in “recalcitrant” beneficiaries of the Student Loan Fund. The Fund was set up by government in 1994 to assist persons with financial constraints in acquiring a tertiary education at the University of Guyana (UG). ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 June 2015, 19:28 by GxMedia Venezuela on Tuesday accused Guyana’s newly elected government of provocation at the behest of American oil-giant, Exxon-Mobil, and sought to justify its maritime boundary demarcation in line with its claim of the mineral and forest-rich Essequibo Region.  “It weighs note that the unique and surprising aggression, is that the government ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 June 2015, 18:03 by GxMedia Three suspected robbers were Tuesday afternoon arrested by police at Den Amstel back dam, West Coast Demerara. Police said that at about 0545h. today Tuesday June 09, 2015, two men, one of who whom was armed with a handgun, entered the home of Wazim Khan, 54 years, of Anna Catherina, ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 June 2015, 17:46 by GxMedia The Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) has decided to boycott the first sitting of the 11th Parliament which is scheduled for Wednesday, June 10th, a top party official says. The official, who agreed to divulge these plans under the condition of anonymity, also says that the party will stage a ...