The Government of Guyana will be paying out a year-end bonus to public service employees, who earn less than $500,000 per month, the Ministry of the Presidency announced Monday. This announcement was first mentioned by President David Granger, late last week, during a recording of the television show, The Public Interest. In the seven months since the new Administration took ...

Two months after being asked to remove the Jagaur hide that adorned the his office, Vice President Khemraj Ramjattan has made no steps to remove the remains of the national animal much to public concern and distress. On October 8, Tourism Minister Cathy Hughes told reporters that she had written to the Vice President asking that the skin be removed. ...

State Minister Joseph Harmon says that the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) has been asked to recover close to $3.5M in arrears from Edul Ahmad for a piece of property leased to him for $500,000 annually in 2008. The lease was granted to Generation Complex Inc; whose principal is Ahmad, for the construction of a 150-room hotel, restaurant, bars, ...

The Government of Guyana is calling it quits when it comes to retrieving the remains of persons who have plunged to their death from the Kaieteur Falls. This is after two persons in recent months plunged to their deaths at the falls and authorities taking as much as two weeks to recover those remains from the falls. Tourism Minister Cathy ...

The bodies of the two boat captains, who disappeared during a boat collision in the Mazaruni River last weekend, were recovered Monday morning. A source said the bodies floated up about 800 meters from where the speedboats collided Saturday night (December 12, 2015). Dead are Roy “Fatman” Roopnarine and Trevor “Rope” Persaud of Itaballi, Mazaruni. Thom Fortune, who was pitched ...

An employee of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is Sunday thanking her neighbour and God for saving her life from bandits who waylaid her as she was entering her yard early Sunday morning. “Thank God I am alive. I live good with the neighbours,” Cheryl Embrack who is a former employee of the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (NGMC) told Demerara Waves ...

Two boat captains were Saturday night reported missing following the collision of two speed boats on the Mazaruni River, according to usually reliable sources. Those missing are Roy “Fatman” Roopnarine and Trevor“Rope” Persaud. They were travelling in one of the boats. A senior administrative official and a resident confirmed that Thom Fortune, who is the captain and owner of the ...

Guyanese anti-drug agents coincidentally found a forged Barbados passport in the possession of a taxi driver who had hoped to travel to Canada without applying for a visa. Unlike nationals of Barbados and several Eastern Caribbean countries, Guyanese must acquire a visa before travelling to that North American country. But 39-year old taxi driver, Rohit Singh, of Lusignan, East Coast ...

Reproduced from Breaking Belize News The Belize Agro-Productive Sector Group (BASG), a private business whose main goal is to facilitate the development of the sugar, citrus, banana, shrimp agro-productive sectors, issued a statement Friday afternoon expressing grave concern over Guyanese rice soon expected to be retailed in Belizean grocery stores for less than the $1.29 local producers charge for the same pound BASG ...

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