Last Updated on Monday, 22 January 2024, 23:19 by Denis Chabrol The opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Monday decried the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration’s  refusal to fund the University of Guyana (UG) adequately. During day one of debate on the 2024 National Budget, Education Minister Priya Manickchand sought to assure Guyanese ...

Last Updated on Monday, 22 January 2024, 18:12 by Denis Chabrol Nine years after the David Granger-led A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) administration had increased ministers’ salaries, that coalition on Monday said People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) ministers were now taking home almost GY$2 million per month in salaries and allowances. “Since 2021 the PPP/C has augmented ...

Last Updated on Monday, 22 January 2024, 17:04 by Denis Chabrol Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha on Monday filed a GY$5 million libel lawsuit against Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton in connection with a number of posts on Facebook about chicken smuggling. That amount could be more if the High Court yields to Mr Mustapha’s request for exemplary and/or aggravated damages ...

Last Updated on Monday, 22 January 2024, 16:01 by Denis Chabrol Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, Roysdale Forde on Monday forecast that government spending for 2024 would far exceed the budgeted GY$1.1 trillion because government would continue the trend of bringing financial papers for large amounts of money during the year. He said the resort ...

Last Updated on Monday, 22 January 2024, 14:43 by Denis Chabrol Two persons, including a 16-year old boy, have been arrested in connection with the theft of GY$2 million worth of copper wire and other items from a gold mining concession that has been abandoned by the Australia-headquartered Troy Resources Limited, officials said. The Ministry of Natural Resources’ Director of ...

Last Updated on Monday, 22 January 2024, 14:11 by Denis Chabrol The fate of Fire Chief, Gregory Wickham, who has been cited for dereliction of duty by a Commission of Inquiry into the Mahdia Secondary School dormitory that killed 20 children last year, now depends on an examination of the report, Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn said Monday. Mr Benn ...