Last Updated on Friday, 12 February 2016, 14:29 by Writer State Minister Joseph Harmon called on the Opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to come to the table with workable solutions rather than just coming to point out problems. Harmon made the statement as he presented his take on the 2016 Budget debate on Friday in the National Assembly. He accused ...

Last Updated on Friday, 12 February 2016, 12:02 by Writer  Newly sworn in Chairman of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) Stanley Ming has pledged to see that the mining community grows and enhances as he says he will oversee the unshackling of the sector. Ming made the comment as the new board for the Commission was sworn in ...

Last Updated on Friday, 12 February 2016, 7:19 by Denis Chabrol Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan says it was the People’s Progressive Party Civic-led administration that had already decided to increase the cost of firearm licenses since 2013, but had decided against implementing it for political reasons. Ramjattan told the House during the National Budget debate that Guyana’s then Home Affairs ...

Last Updated on Friday, 12 February 2016, 0:08 by Denis Chabrol Almost two months after an army intelligence officer and two others were killed in a vehicular collision during a surveillance operation, rules have been crafted for the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan announced Thursday night. “The protocols have been already drafted…It’s about six pages  ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2016, 21:46 by Denis Chabrol More than 5,300 foreigners are believed to be in Guyana illegally because there is no evidence in the immigration records showing that they have left here legally, Minister of Immigration and Citizenship Winston Felix announced Thursday. He told the National Assembly during the debate on the 2016 National Budget ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2016, 20:49 by Denis Chabrol Guyana Thursday night hailed healthy signs in the international gold price for the first time in seven years. Making his contribution to the 2016 National Budget Debate, Minister of a Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman noted that gold has reached about US$1,200 per ounce. On the London Fix, the price ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2016, 20:46 by Writer Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman has revealed that all of Guyana’s productive forest areas was “shared out” under the former People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration. Productive forest has been defined as forestland capable of producing forest products of at least 20 cubic feet per acre per year. Trotman made the revelation ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2016, 20:26 by Writer Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman has called out the Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo over his absence at the presentation of Budget 2016. Trotman making speaking in the National Assembly on Thursday declared that the move by Jagdeo to absent himself from the Opposition benches at the time of ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2016, 18:06 by Writer Former Education Minister Priya Manickchand says that she cannot support the 2016 Budget presented to the National Assembly by Finance Minister Winston Jordan since it doesn’t cater for all of Guyana. Dubbing the budget a “stagnation budget” Manickchand delivered a blast of feral proportions to the Government. “From what is ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2016, 15:16 by Writer Amna Ally, Minister of Social Cohesion has defended her Ministry saying that it is necessary. This is against the backdrop of several statements made during the 2016 debate that the Ministry is being used for ‘social bribery.” However, Ally during her budget presentation stated that anyone who would see to ...