Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 17:38 by Denis Chabrol The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Wednesday claimed that Mr Charandass Persaud was still functioning as Guyana’s High Commissioner to India although he was recalled earlier this month when a video surfaced of him verbally abusing a prominent Indian animal rights activist at his official residence in India, but ...
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Govt breaks silence on World Bank debarred consultant
Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 16:57 by Denis Chabrol Just days after the World Bank announced that it has debarred a Spanish consultant because of corrupt practice, the Guyana government on Wednesday said the man was hired by the then A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition-led administration in early 2020 and was effectively fired eight ...
Read More »OPINION: Traffic – as Guyanese know it, follow it, live it
Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 8:18 by Writer by GHK Lall A cautionary note is in order as I share on traffic today. All laws and rules are dumped into the garbage can. Well, that is precisely what most Guyanese have done with them. Frequently, I am ready to say all Guyanese, so prevalent, so every day, are ...
Read More »NBS mortgages now payable via mmg+
Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 7:11 by Denis Chabrol Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh on Tuesday lauded the New Building Society (NBS) for taking the bold step of leading the way in being the first financial institution to implement the use of Mobile Money Guyana (MMG) for mortgage payments. The Minister was at the time speaking at the ...
Read More »University of Guyana working on project to reduce wheaten flour in bread
Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 10:56 by Denis Chabrol The University of Guyana (UG), in collaboration with Banks DIH Ltd., has been making progress in baking bread with 25 percent less wheaten flour, according to Head of UG’s Institute of Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Patsy Francis. She said tests were carried out using cassava flour and sweet potato ...
Read More »Norton mum on fate of AFC parliamentarians
Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 November 2022, 15:59 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Wednesday declined to comment on the fate of the nine Alliance For Change (AFC) parliamentarians after that party withdraws from the coalition with his People’s National Congress Reform-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). “When we are formally communicated with , we will then ...
Read More »Suspect in Linden teacher’s murder found hanging
Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 November 2022, 11:04 by Denis Chabrol The prime suspect in the stabbing death of his child’s mother was Tuesday morning found hanging in an abandoned house in Wismar, Linden, police said. The Commander of Regional Police Division #10, Mr Hugh Winter named the man as Leseton Baynes. The Police were looking for Leseton Baynes following ...
Read More »Guyana asks World Court to focus on arbitrators, not United Kingdom, in border case with Venezuela
Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 November 2022, 8:56 by Denis Chabrol Guyana on Tuesday rejected Venezuela’s arguments that the United Kingdom (UK) is a necessary party to this former British colony’s case on the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award, and asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to focus the conduct of the arbitrators. Venezuela, for its part, ...
Read More »Manhunt for Wismar teacher’s killer after they broke up
Last Updated on Monday, 21 November 2022, 11:02 by Denis Chabrol Police in Linden were Monday morning continuing their manhunt for the prime suspect in the killing of a teacher after she broke up their relationship. Dead is 22-year Kelly Charlotte who lived at 790 One Mile Extention, Wismar, Linden. Police said they are looking for the son’s father, a ...
Read More »High Court ruling outlaws Immigration, GECOM removing names of non-residents- Nandlall
Last Updated on Monday, 21 November 2022, 7:49 by Denis Chabrol Attorney General Anil Nandlall says the Chief Immigration Officer and the Commissioner of Registration of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) cannot collaborate to remove the names of non-resident Guyanese from the national database of registrants. “He fails to appreciate that insofar as that Regulation authorises the removal of names ...
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