Last Updated on Monday, 5 December 2016, 14:40 by Denis Chabrol “Shocking”, “unconscionable”, were the words used by Opposition MP Priya Manickchand to describe Budget 2017. “Brace yourself Guyana, these are the things that are going to come,” Manickchand said in her description of the 2017 budget. The MP Opposition told the National Assembly during her address on the budget ...

Last Updated on Monday, 5 December 2016, 14:05 by Denis Chabrol The death of A 9-year-old boy from the Kako village in Region 7 and the brain-dead state of his 11 year old brother has health officials still asking questions about the circumstances surrounding their death. But Health Minister Dr George Norton told the press corps today at the Public ...

Last Updated on Monday, 5 December 2016, 13:54 by Derwayne Wills One year after a Guyanese man paid his wife US$9,000 to leave their homeland and join him in New York, he nearly decapitated her on a Queens street corner early Monday-sawing through her neck in front of a witness who mistakenly asked if he needed help before he realized ...

Last Updated on Monday, 5 December 2016, 13:03 by Denis Chabrol The heated exchanges in budget 2017 debates have already started with Opposition MP Joseph Hamilton taking to the floor to denounce what he called a “poisonous” budget presented by Finance Minister Winston Jordan, which would cause “sufferation and murderation to Guyanese people.” “It is the first death announcement budget ...

Last Updated on Monday, 5 December 2016, 11:59 by Denis Chabrol The European Union and the Georgetown Mayor and City Council have signed a contract that will facilitate a study for a Comprehensive Restoration and Sustainable Conservation Management Plan for City Hall. The Contract which has been awarded to EURONET Consulting GEIE for EUR 279,196 [G$64M] is expected to be ...

Last Updated on Monday, 5 December 2016, 13:05 by Denis Chabrol The  2017 budget debates begin Monday in the National Assembly, and arriving parliamentarians were greeted by a long line of PPP protesters led by several MPs including Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo. “It’s bad economics that many of the measures in the budget are not in keeping with even what ...