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Monthly Archives: August 2016

GPHC’s CEO to be sent on leave to facilitate review of investigative report

Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 August 2016, 10:24 by Denis Chabrol The Chief Executive Officer of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) , Michael Khan will be asked to take his accumulated annual leave to pave the way for government to review a damning investigative report into the affairs of that health care institution, sources said. Khan resumed duty after the ...

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December 5 is Guyana’s 2017 National Budget Day

Last Updated on Monday, 22 August 2016, 14:43 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s 2017 National Budget will be presented on December 5, 2016 and to assist with its preparation, government is contemplating the establishment of ministerial planning units, President David Granger announced Monday. “We can only maintain that pattern of preparation if there are established planning units and the Ministry of ...

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Mixed reaction to Granger’s proposed National Indigenous People’s Authority

Last Updated on Monday, 22 August 2016, 14:10 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s President David Granger on Monday recommended the formation of an authority oversee and fast-track the implementation of decisions by the National Toshaos Council (NTC) and other decision-making bodies;  an announcement that has drawn sharp criticism from shadow Indigenous People’s Affairs Minister, Pauline Sukhai but welcomed by the NTC ...

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Nagamootoo urges worker training for oil sector; CCWU concerned about insufficient govt funding for Critchlow Labour College

Last Updated on Monday, 22 August 2016, 7:26 by Denis Chabrol At a time when concerns are being raised about insufficient government funding for the Critchlow Labour College, Guyana Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo urged the labour movement to help train workers for the oil and gas sector. Speaking at the weekend at the Clerical and Commercial Workers’ Union’s (CCWU) 4th Triennial Delegates ...

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Beaten suspected robber leads police to gun, cellphones

Last Updated on Monday, 22 August 2016, 6:27 by Denis Chabrol One of the suspects in what appeared to have been a planned robbery at a grocery has led investigators to the discovery of a handgun, police said. “The male accomplice who was taken into police custody, admitted to being in company of the deceased and took investigators to a ...

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Bandit shot dead by accomplice

Last Updated on Sunday, 21 August 2016, 22:25 by Denis Chabrol A bandit was shot dead  early Sunday morning allegedly by one of his four other accomplices as they fled the East Bank Berbice home of a businessman after beating his daughters and carting off cash and jewellery. Dead is Odan “Stew” / “Sunil” Lallbeharry of New Forest, East Canje, ...

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“Vigilantism” will not be tolerated- Pres. Granger, following recent shooting death, beating of suspects

Last Updated on Sunday, 21 August 2016, 21:40 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger Sunday night said ‘vigilantism’  would not be tolerated, in the wake of the beating of three suspected bandits and the killing of another in two separate incidents in recent days. “We can’t tolerate that. We accept that citizens have a right to protect their property and ...

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Shears-brandishing robbers nabbed after robbing youths near University of Guyana

Last Updated on Sunday, 21 August 2016, 12:59 by Denis Chabrol Police say they have arrested two suspected shears-wielding robbers shortly after they lashed two youths and snatched their cash and a cellular phone totalling GYD$80,000. Investigators are treating the incident as a case of “robbery with violence” carried out at about 12:30 Sunday morning at University of Guyana Access Road. ...

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“Cash Money” shot dead, accomplice beaten

Last Updated on Sunday, 21 August 2016, 12:39 by Denis Chabrol One man was shot dead and another beaten by public spirited citizens, after the fled from police who were summoned to probe their suspicious activity at a shop at Johanna, East Bank Demerara. Dead is 21-year old Seon “Cash Money” Clarke of Old Road, Land of Canaan. The injured ...

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