by Zena Henry The new government has started its sweep into the financial practices employed by the former administration with forensic audits already underway at the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), the recently built Marriot Hotel and the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), to name a few. The government, according to Joseph Harmon, Minister of State in the Ministry ...

by Zena Henry The country’s investment consultancy agency, Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) is set to get an interim Board of Directors that will be made up of representatives of several agencies and stakeholders, Minister of State Joseph Harmon related Thursday June 11. The interim body will be set up for a six month term; correcting the current state where ...

NATIONAL GRADE SIX ASSESSMENT 2015 The results of the National Grade SixAssessment (NGSA) written on 01 April and 02 April 2015 are being released to schools.Fifteen thousandtwo hundred and twenty five (15,225)candidates were entered for this assessment. These candidates also wrote the National Grade Two Assessment in 2011 and the National Grade Four Assessment in 2013. The results being released ...

by Zena Henry The government is not too happy with the amount of tax dollars that have gone into the former Ramotar-Administration initiated Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry so it is giving the body one more sitting following which a report of their findings is to be handed over to President David Granger within one month. This is according to ...

by Zena Henry The new Administration has apparently got its work cut out as several of the country’s main cash earners are either broke or continuously requiring bailout sums. Minister of State, Joseph Harmon during Cabinet’s weekly press briefing held at Ministry of the Presidency Thursday June 11 explained that the money from Venezuela’s oil for rice agreement with Guyana ...

Parliament on Wednesday stepped into the 21st Century when it brought Online its Parliamentary Live –Streaming Project which allowed Guyanese in Guyana and abroad to observe the goings on during the first sitting of the 11th Parliament. In addition to being able to see and listen to their newly-appointed Members of Parliament (MPs) and newly-elected Speaker take oaths and give ...

A woman who was busted for smuggling 10 kilos of cocaine to the U.S. from Guyana told authorities she thought the contraband was diamonds, a Brooklyn Federal Court complaint says. Alizah Henry, a U.S. citizen, was arrested over the weekend at Kennedy Airport after U.S. Customs and Border Protection cops found in her suitcase four bags of white powder labeled ...

by Zena Henry The course of the 11th Parliament has been set with President David Granger outlining undone laws, border security, infrastructural development and empowerment of autonomous bodies, as key areas to be tended to. Addressing the National Assembly Wednesday June 10, exclusive of the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), the President charged that this Parliament has the honour of ...

The first sitting of the 11th Parliament took place on Wednesday, June 10th and the second sitting is slated for June 25th, but the refusal of the Opposition party to take up its seats can impede the functioning of some Parliamentary committees and degrade the scrutiny value of others. In fact, the ability of the National Assembly itself to scrutanise ...

by Zena Henry In his first address to the Parliament, President David Granger has once again called on the opposition to take their seats in National Assembly to represent the 49 percent of the population that would have voted for them at the recently held General and Regional Elections. At the opening of the House of Assembly Wednesday June 10, ...