Days after the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Michael Khan sat next to Public Health Minister, Dr. George Norton and helped him to defend budgeted expenditures; he has been sent on leave. Norton confirmed that Khan was ordered to proceed on 48 days leave on the advice of an auditor. Asked if discrepancies were found ...

A Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuco) employee was  Monday evening killed after a Bell Loader he was operating fell into a canal at Rose Hall Estate, East Berbice, according to well-placed sources. Initial information reaching Demerara Waves Online News is that Mohammed Oosman was crossing a makeshift bridge from one field to another when the boards loosened. The Bell Loader fell ...

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday evening assured President David Granger that the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) would give its unqualified support to the government in protecting Guyana’s territorial integrity. “The President presented me with an agenda on issues that they would wish to discuss with us and one of the issues was the border matter and I said ...

A fire was Monday night raging at a lubricating oil storage bond near a gas station at Providence, East Bank Demerara. Fire Chief Marlon Gentle said fire fighters were battling the huge blaze that has  been confined to the bond that stores the oil for the bulk fuel station. The location is a short distance away from the Guyana National ...

President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo earlier Monday evening, according to the Ministry of the Presidency. They focussed on “several urgent matters which need to be addressed by all Guyanese.” A statement by the Ministry later quoted Granger as saying that Guyanese can look forward to the current administration doing its part to ensure inclusive governance. This was ...

President David Granger Monday morning, met with a special team from the United Nations to discuss his Government’s position on the strained relations between Guyana and Venezuela, according to the Ministry of the Presidency Foreign Affairs Minister, Carl Greenidge and Minister of State, Joseph Harmon were also present at the meeting. The team, which was accompanied by the United Nations ...

At about 1410h. yesterday Sunday August 30, 2015, it was discovered that three juveniles who were in custody and together in the same lock-ups at the La Grange Police Station had escaped. Two of the juveniles were remanded having been charged for wounding, and the other had been taken into custody earlier yesterday pending investigations into a report of alleged ...

Tomorrow September 1, 2015 should be the commencement date for the Berbice Bridge toll reduction, but this 100 day promise iss now undoable since the bridge company has not given the government the go ahead. Finance Minister Winston Jordan announced during his Budget speech weeks ago that the bridge toll would reduce from $2,200 to $1,900 for minibuses and cars, ...

Trinidad and Tobago is now providing the majority of Guyana’s fuel, in the wake of ongoing uncertainty about supplies from economically ruined Venezuela which has been increasingly aggressive over its claim to the Essequibo region and this country’s oil-rich Atlantic waters. It is understood that the twin island nation was the sole main fuel provider until the lucrative PetroCaribe, oil-for ...

Former Home Affairs Minister and People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Clement Rohee has taken up issue with Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan who he says is going after “torture cop” Narine Lall at all cost regardless of procedure. Rohee was the presiding minister at the time when 14-year-old Twyon Thomas had his private parts severely burnt while being interrogated ...