New counselling rooms for 10 secondary schools; new medical school for UG- Education Minister
With 17% of $250B in budget 2017 allocated to the education sector, Education Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine announced in the ...
Updated: No foreign exchange shortage, although sister Caricom buyers are taking out US dollars
Finance Minister, Winston Jordan and Governor of the Bank of Guyana, Dr. Gobind Ganga speaking on the balcony of Parliament ...
Education budget reduced by $1B because of 14% VAT; cost of living will increase- MP Manickchand warns
Shadow Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand contributing to the 2017 Budget Debate in the National Assembly "Shocking", "unconscionable", were the ...
Mining activity not linked to death of Region 7 boy, brain-dead brother – Minister Norton
The death of A 9-year-old boy from the Kako village in Region 7 and the brain-dead state of his 11 ...
Jealous Guyanese man almost saws off wife’s head in Queens, New York
Police at the scene where a woman was found nearly decapitated at the corner of 124th Street and 103rd Avenue ...
‘Poisonous’ budget will cause ‘sufferation’, ‘murderation’ to Guyanese- Opposition MP
The heated exchanges in budget 2017 debates have already started with Opposition MP Joseph Hamilton taking to the floor to ...
EU helping to restore derelict City Hall
EU Ambassador Jernej Videtič, City Mayor Patricia Chase-Green and Town Clerk Royston King among others outside the derelict City Hall. ...
PPP supporters protest tax-heavy budget; Jagdeo warns of government “arrogance” to pass budget
Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo greets a long line of PPP supporters protesting outside the Public Buildings The 2017 budget debates ...
Team dispatched to Mazaruni after boy dies, brother “brain dead”
Health officials suspect that toxicity of a waterway in Region 7 (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) may have caused the death of a boy ...
Japanese aid funds to be spent on clean energy street lights
Solar-powered street lights on Thomas Street, Georgetown. Cabinet has agreed to cancel the remaining US$1.3 million allocated to National Hardware (Guyana) ...
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