Last Updated on Friday, 12 June 2020, 17:49 by Writer The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has cancelled its Annual May Day March and Rally usually held on 1st May owing to COVID-19. May Day or the Workers’ Day is next Friday. The GTUC says, in keeping with the government’s guidelines and safety concerns about public gathering surrounding the novel ...
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Bandit with “rusty” handgun robs Bartica gold trading company
Last Updated on Friday, 12 June 2020, 17:43 by Writer A taxi driver is in custody as police are on the hunt for another suspect in a robbery at Bartica where an undisclosed sum of gold, cash and other items were stolen from a gold trading company. The robbery was committed at Emperor Mineral Trading, owned by Millburn Mahadoo, at ...
Read More »34 companies submit expressions of interest to market Guyana’s crude oil
Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 22:34 by Writer Thirty-four companies on Tuesday submitted expressions of interest (EOIs) to sell Guyana’s oil exports over a period of 12 months. The EOIs were opened by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board. Already, the Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of Energy has said the company that wins the bid to ...
Read More »130 Guyanese laid off as RUSAL closure triggers German transshipment company exit
Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 22:29 by Writer More than 130 workers have been sent home as a result of the Germany-headquartered, Oldendorff Carriers Guyana Inc (OCGI) closure of its transshipment service in Guyana three months after the Russian Aluminium (RUSAL)-majority owned bauxite company shut down its operations. “Unfortunately, OCGI’s customer in Guyana has decided to suspend and ...
Read More »Coronavirus: Immigration to US to be suspended amid pandemic, Trump says
Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 22:19 by Writer Reproduced from the BBC President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus. On Twitter, he cited “the attack from the invisible enemy”, as he calls the virus, and the need to protect the jobs of ...
Read More »OPINION: Guyana elections: Rigging for Dummies
Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 22:15 by Writer by Paul Sanders, New York It will probably take a degree in law. Or political science. Or whatever! They should have seen this coming. Guyanese are living through the world’s stupidest era. Stupidity, while innately comical especially in the political sphere, often comes with a side of brutality. And we ...
Read More »OPINION: Americans are now faced with two critical emergencies: the COVID-19 pandemic, and Donald Trump
Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 21:59 by Writer by Paul Sanders, New York Had you watched Trump’s press briefing on Monday you’d conclude by now that the man occupying the White House should be in an inpatient mental-facility. His manic, gibbering ragefest was a complete meltdown shitshow of a failed man who has long ago passed the limits ...
Read More »OPINION: Oil futures below zero; meaningless to most Guyanese
Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 21:47 by Writer By GHK Lall Oil prices, the futures to be precise, went into negative territory for the first time in their volatile stormy history. For many it is like the end of the world. Yet, here are Guyanese lost in the impenetrable hazes of their own little world, who could care ...
Read More »GECOM Chairperson rebuffs death threat; recount depends on CARICOM team arrival
Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 21:29 by Writer The Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Claudette Singh says she has lodged a report with police and cybercrime investigators about a threat on her life but she says she is not afraid of death and she vowed to get the national vote recount off the ground. “I reported ...
Read More »GECOM gets green-light to adjust recount hours, no quarantine for foreigners
Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 21:21 by Writer The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will possibly work a 10-hour work day for the national recount and the CARICOM high-level team and international observers will no longer have to be quarantined for 14 days. Sources have confirmed to News Talk Radio Guyana that communications to the GECOM Chairperson Justice Claudette ...
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