Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 December 2016, 17:05 by Derwayne Wills Guyana’s contribution to international organisations has increased by some $500M in the 2017 budgeted estimates for the Foreign Ministry. The increase raised some questions from Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira today in the Supply Committee of the National Assembly. Teixeira noted the increases were for this country’s payments to ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 December 2016, 14:56 by Derwayne Wills Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira has asked Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge to justify a $200M increase in the amount allocated for contract employees under the Foreign Policy Promotions for the Foreign Ministry’s 2017 budget. The increases, according to Minister Greenidge in the Supply Committee of the National Assembly, “reflects ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 December 2016, 13:21 by Denis Chabrol ​Guyana Power and Light (GPL) workers will before year-end take home a five percent across-the-board increase and other benefits, in a breakthrough one day after technicians downed tools. President of the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE), Kenneth Joseph said in addition to the 5% across-the-board ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 December 2016, 11:06 by Derwayne Wills While the Guyana Government hoped for a resolution to the border controversy with Venezuela before UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon demitted office at the end of this year, Guyanese officials will settle for a 12-month application of the Good Offices process before the controversy is referred to the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 December 2016, 10:36 by Denis Chabrol Reproduced from Jamaica Observer KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 23-year-old Guyanese woman was last Thursday arrested at the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) after a quantity of ganja was reportedly found in her luggage. The police last evening reported that Michelle Ann Bamfield otherwise called Blacka, of George Town, Guyana ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 December 2016, 7:51 by Denis Chabrol A woman was killed early Tuesday morning when the car she was travelling in collided with a minibus on the Amelia’s Ward Public Road, police said. Dead is 28-year old Toshauna Frank. She was pronounced dead on arrival, while her two siblings were treated for minor injuries and sent ...

Last Updated on Monday, 19 December 2016, 20:36 by Derwayne Wills The Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) continues to be, in the words of Prime Minister Nagamootoo “a black hole,” according to Finance Minister Winston Jordan who was asked today to account for the performance of state agencies during his 2016 review. Turning his attention to the Guyana Power & Light ...

Last Updated on Monday, 19 December 2016, 17:44 by Denis Chabrol Contracted workers and managers are on standby to man the Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) transmission and distribution system should strike action continue, even as the management has decided to hold another round of salary negotiations on Tuesday. Chief Executive Officer of GPL, Wrenford Homer hoped that representatives of ...

Last Updated on Monday, 19 December 2016, 16:11 by Derwayne Wills Stemming from a three-year research from 2012 into land claims and conflicts of 42 indigenous settlements in Guyana’s regions 1 and 2, communities involved are calling for an independent tribunal for land claims and grievances owing to a number of challenges including interference from former government officials. “Government officials have ...

Last Updated on Monday, 19 December 2016, 13:57 by Derwayne Wills Relief has come for 280 Dynamic Airways passengers stranded at JFK International Airport in New York over the weekend, according to the company’s local representative Captain Gerry Gouveia, who confirmed today that the flight is expected to reach Georgetown this afternoon. Some 400 passengers were stranded in Georgetown and ...