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President David Granger on Thursday signaled that government would pay a maximum 10 percent wage and salary hike to the lowest paid government employees and one percent to the highest paid because that is all that government can afford. “It is perhaps what is affordable at present,” he said on this week’s edition of his television programme, Public Interest. Granger ...

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo and Attorney General, Basil Williams have agreed that the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) should be allowed to fight financial crimes only, but Jagdeo prefers to see that unit remain a part of the Guyana Police Force or it may be used to harass political opponents. “You don’t know how they will act and they will ...

Guyana will earn about GYD$42 billion per year if ExxonMobil begins producing oil at today’s Brent Crude price of US$46.22 per barrel, based on the revenue sharing formula that has been agreed between the two sides more than 10 years ago. Based on projections that the price of oil could increase to as much as US$79 per barrel in 2021 ...

Armed bandits Wednesday night invaded a supermarket at Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara and ordered the owner, staff and customers to lie face down on the ground before carting off more than GYD$1 million in cash and valuables,  the owner said. The incident occurred at about 7:34 PM on August 31, 2016 at Fresh Mart Supermarket, Coverden Public Road, East ...

A suspected serial bandit, who was arrested earlier this week, has confessed to committing several armed robberies on the East Coast Demerara and he is expected to be arraigned on Thursday, the Guyana Police Force said in a statement. Investigators said the man was also “positively identified” as a perpetrator during several identification parades. “The suspect was positively identified during ...

Although Smart City Solutions (SCS) has agreed to reduce the parking meter fees and the life of the contract from 49 to 20 years, a divided Georgetown’s City Council ended a meeting Wednesday with a decision to hold further negotiations with the company based on the deliberations. The proposed amendments would see the parking rate being reduced from GYD$125 per ...

JAMAICA OBSERVER – A man has been taken into custody for breaches of the Dangerous Drug Act after 12 pounds of ganja was found in his luggage at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, on Sunday He has been identified as Sean Matthews of Arnold Road in Kingston. Reports from the narcotics police are that Matthews was about to board ...

Even as the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) continues to probe an incident at the Eteringbang Airstrip that resulted in damage to a plane, the Chief Executive Officer of the Roraima Group of Companies, Gerry Gouveia on Tuesday denied that that aircraft was overloaded with several drums of fuel. GCAA Director General, Retired Col. Egbert Field said a probe has ...

BK International on Tuesday turned the sod to build a US$3.5 million dollar hangar at the Eugene F. Correia International Airport at Ogle as part of the company’s plans to bring down the cost of domestic airfares, Chief Executive Officer, Brian Tiwari said. “It’s to increase our fleet and make our flights cheaper,” he told Demerara Waves Online News., alluding ...

A top official of the American oil giant, ExxonMobil, on Tuesday cautioned Guyanese against expecting a large number of direct jobs when Guyana begins commercial production and instead said it is the government’s responsibility to use oil revenues to help create employment. Jeff Simons, the Country Manager of ExxonMobil’s local subsidiary- Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited- told media representatives ...