A Guyana Police Force Corporal and a Constable have been arrested in connection with the alleged murder of a Brazilian miner at Puruni District on Saturday. The policemen, who are based at Kurupung Police Station allegedly abandoned the station Friday morning, leaving on an All Terrain Vehicl (ATV) for patrol duties. Amed with a.30 carbine rifle , they subsequently joined a ...
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Three dead in West Demerara accident
Three persons died early Sunday morning when the car they were travelling in slammed into the back of parked lorry on the La Grange Public Road, West Bank Demerara, police said. Dead are the car driver Jonar Devon, 33, a contractor of 22 Nismes, West Bank Demerara and the occupants Devindra Hardyal, 25,a promoter of 30 Public Road,La Grange, and ...
Read More »CGX names exploration well in honour of Indigenous people; drilling set for November
– Utakwaaka, a Phillipai word, means the dawn of a new day, a ray of light a ray of hope CGX Energy Incorporated announced its next exploration well with an Indigenous naming and blessing ceremony by the historic Aleluya Indigenous Group. The ceremony, a collaboration between CGX and the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, was held on Friday at the Umana ...
Read More »Privately-owned Guyana Airways Corporation Inc. struck off Companies Register because of name similarity
As a new privately-owned airline named Guyana Airways Corporation Inc. prepares to move ahead with its application to the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), the name of that company has been scratched off the Companies Register in keeping with local laws, according to well-placed sources. The Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority last month informed the company, through its lawyer, that ...
Read More »Guyanese selected for US Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Professional Fellows Program
The U.S. Embassy on Friday proudly announced the 2018 cohort from Guyana for the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Professional Fellows Program. The program takes place in September and October and will bring 250 young leaders from 36 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to the United States. This year the embassy said “we are pleased to ...
Read More »Be cautious about saving oil revenues in Sovereign Wealth Fund- Economist Clive Thomas
Guyana should not be too excited about saving a huge amount of its oil revenues in a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) because there are risks such as the loss of future value of monies, Distinguished Economics Professor Clive Thomas said. “A dollar now is worth more than a dollar in the future so we are trading real benefit when we ...
Read More »Teachers’ union never agreed to specialist to calculate pay hike; Education Minister to be officially notified of strike call
President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union, Mark Lyte said the long-running pay dispute with government might be headed for arbitration, even as he Friday prepared to officially inform the Ministry of Education that teachers would embark on strike action later this month. Denying that the GTU had agreed that the Ministry of Education should hire a specialist to calculate how ...
Read More »Attorney General must activate Judicial Review Act pending appeal, not engage in “frustration and obstruction” of parliament
The Guyana Court of Appeal on Thursday dismissed Attorney General, Basil Williams’ request for a stay of execution of a High Court order that compels him to activate the Judicial Review Act (JRA) saying that he appeared bent on frustrating and obstructing people from accessing a wider array of legal remedies for the first time. “I hold that the Applicant ...
Read More »AGM Inc. offers employment opportunity to laid off sugar estate workers
Skilled employees recently laid off from GUYSUCO’s closed or downsized estates were given the opportunity to turn their technical training towards employment in the mining sector, as Guyana Goldfields Inc./Aurora Gold Mines Inc. conducted a five-day recruitment exercise recently. “The recruitment team endeavoured to secure the services of these employees in a continuation of the Company’s commitment to hire skilled ...
Read More »Teachers to go on strike as pay talks collapse again; union agrees to hiring of specialist to calculate salary increases
The Guyana Teachers’ Union on Thursday decided to take strike action after the latest round of pay talks broke down again, in just under two years, union President Mark Lyte said. “The way forward is that we are now mandated by our members to take industrial action commencing from the pre-term and will very well lead into the first week ...
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