Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 19:32 by Derwayne Wills As Guyana and Guyanese await the benefits floated around by prospects of the upcoming oil and gas sector, Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman has warned that contrary to popular belief, not everyone in oil-producing countries are part of those massive wealth-earning sectors. Trotman was at the time responding to ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 16:25 by Denis Chabrol President, David Granger  said that Guyana deeply mourns the passing of the late educator, author and diplomat, Mr. Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (E.R. Braithwaite), CCH, who passed away on Monday, December 12, 2016 at a hospital in Maryland, United States of America. The Ministry of the Presidency quoted President Granger ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 15:49 by Denis Chabrol E.R. Braithwaite, the Guyanese author, educator and diplomat whose years teaching in the slums of London’s East End inspired the international best-seller “To Sir, With Love” and the popular Sidney Poitier movie of the same name, has died at age 104, the Associated Press  (AP)  reported. Braithwaite’s companion, Ginette ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 14:44 by Denis Chabrol Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo says the Commissioner of Information, Retired Justice Charles Ramson Snr. has not reported on his work in recent years, and at the same time he noted that Ramson has no office or staff. In considering the 2017 current and capital expenditures for several agencies under ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 14:45 by Derwayne Wills An $80M figure allocated for the Office of the Prime Minister with an unnamed budgetary specification was identified by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo as monies reserved for the Office of the Commissioner of Information, the Department of Governance, as well as the constitutional reform process. Of the monies budgeted, ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 12:34 by Denis Chabrol Birth certificates being produced  by the Guyana Registrar’s Office  now have secure features, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Winston Felix announced Tuesday. In responding to questions from opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) parliamentarians during consideration of the 2017 Estimates of Expenditure, Felix said a high quality of paper ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 12:33 by Denis Chabrol The Citizenship Ministry, according to subject minister Winston Felix, is currently engaged in a computerisation of national birth certificates. Minister Felix told the Committee of Supply of the National Assembly today that out of $194M budgeted for the computerisation project, some $3M has been spent on computerising years 1987-1997. ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 11:05 by Derwayne Wills An increase of $100M in monies allocated for contracted employees under policy and administration at the Ministry of the Presidency in budget 2017 was put under the microscope today in the Committee of Supply by the Opposition MP Juan Edghill. “There was a budgetary shortfall which is now being ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 7:29 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger says no one has been pardoned this year to coincide with Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary because they did not meet the benchmark and he will not free convicted drug traffickers and murderers. “I didn’t pardon anyone at Independence because many  of the persons who would normally ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 11:21 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger has ruled out bringing in new Cabinet ministers for the New Year, saying that he is satisfied with the performance of his ministers who reflect the make-up of the coalition. “The team has remained intact although their functions have been modified and I feel confident going ...