Last Updated on Sunday, 27 March 2022, 23:02 by Denis Chabrol The Ministry of Health has removed the Director of Mental Health, Dr Util Richmond-Thomas, first terminating her services and then rescinding it and then assigning her as a Government Medical Officer, according to correspondence seen. The termination of her contract as Director of Mental Health was originally dated January ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 27 March 2022, 20:26 by Denis Chabrol Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley said he had cautioned then President David Granger about the long-term consequences of not giving up power if he had known that he had lost the March 2020 general election. “There was one thing I said to my colleague at the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 27 March 2022, 18:02 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Sunday denied that government’s utterances about the flagging state of  Trinidad and Tobago’s oil and gas-dependent economy amounted to a subtle endorsement of the twin island nation’s opposition United National Congress (UNC). “I’m dealing with straight language, straight language. I’m not interpreting language; straight language. ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 27 March 2022, 17:00 by Denis Chabrol People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Leader, Aubrey Norton at the weekend promised that each ministry would have a desk to deal with complaints of racial and other forms of discrimination, even as the government continued to tout its One Guyana platform. “We will establish civil rights unit in every ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 27 March 2022, 12:59 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Sunday announced that Barbados would be supplying 1,000 Black Belly Sheep to Guyana, as part of a plan to make Region Five (Mahaica-West Berbice) the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) livestock capital. In launching the Black Belly Sheep project at Onverwagt, he said “Region Five must be ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 27 March 2022, 13:21 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Sunday announced that major Canadian airline, West Jet, is sending a delegation to Guyana next week to examine the possibility of transporting large quantities of produce to North America. Addressing a large number of farmers at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice to launch a Black Belly ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 March 2022, 18:07 by Denis Chabrol Three men were arrested on Saturday in connection with the alleged discovery of GY$79 million worth of marijuana in a house at De Veldt, Upper Berbice River, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said. With assistance from the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard, the anti-drug agency seized 717 kilogrammes (1,580 ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 March 2022, 15:44 by Denis Chabrol By GHK Lall It is strange the lengths to which powerful men would go to rationalize the irrational, to stand up for what makes for little sense, since it is so hollow, so-self-serving.  This was the case recently when the Hon Vice President went public to share, he and ...

Last Updated on Friday, 25 March 2022, 23:49 by Denis Chabrol The Director of the Ministry of Health’s Food and Drugs Department Dr. Marlan Cole was Friday officially stripped of his responsibilities and reassigned in what is being regarded as a demotion. “You are instructed to meet with the  Chief Medical Officer and the Director of Standards and Technical Services ...

Last Updated on Friday, 25 March 2022, 23:06 by Denis Chabrol Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday defended his administration’s decision to shut out all of the opposition’s nominees to sit on the board of the Natural Resources Fund and indicated there was hardly any room for compromise with the opposition in approving spending. The Vice President sought to justify ...