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Scores of gun licenses are about to be revoked in the coming months, in keeping with a decision by the government to weed out those that had been wrongfully issued, no long required or are in the hands of mentally unstable persons, Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan said Sunday. “It would be a massive, massive exercise so that is the ...

Embattled Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Presidency, Omar Shariff has denied stealing monies belonging to Guyana’s treasury, and insisted that a probe by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) was merely about a personal tax matter with the Guyana Revenue Authority. “The distortion of this personal income tax matter to make it appear to be theft and embezzlement ...

An abandoned building that formerly housed the Nurses Hostel in New Amsterdam was Saturday afternoon destroyed by fire. Divisional Commander, Senior Superintendent of Police, Ian Amsterdam said investigators were working on the theory that vagrants ,who frequent the building, might have been responsible for the blaze. The hostel was located at Charles Place, New Amsterdam. There were no reports of ...

Guyana-born Wall Street civil engineering Principal of Constructomics Trevor Prince donatedten (10) computers and related accessories to the New York Tutorial Support Group Inc. (NYTSG) for use at Tutorial High School (THS). The computers were delivered to THS’s computer laboratory in July just before summer break, complementing 32 previously donated by NYTSG in 2007. The NYTSG noted that with existing ...

The Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology will be removed from Main Street, Georgetown to the Guyana National Museum so that the Ministry of the Presidency can occupy that wooden colonial building that is next to State House. “The Main Street location will now be used by the Ministry of the Presidency.  In recent months two departments have been added to ...

The administration of Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) hopes to revive plans to build a hydro-power station at Paruima Falls as part of efforts to kick-start agro-processing ventures in that area, Regional Chairman, Gordon Bradford said Friday. “The river doesn’t dry. It always has water, Bradford told Demerara Waves Online News. He plans to lobby central government when Junior Minister of Public ...

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday objected to the Guyana government succumbing to Caribbean Community (Caricom) tariff rules, saying it would set a bad precedent and put the country’s manufacturing sector at grave risk. “I heard some people have applied to Caricom for (Common External Tariff) waivers and they have got those waivers and that’s good but the moment you ...

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday urged that contingency measures, including the construction of the Amaila Falls hydro-power plant, be used to cushion the impact of gradually rising world oil prices. “We are enjoying a period of relative calm and basically good prices but these are going to turn against us again,” he told a luncheon organised by the Guyana ...

President David Granger says legal action will be taken against KARES Engineering to recoup monies that will be spent on fixing the defective Kato Secondary School. Granger also ruled out that company being granted any further contracts to build large scale contracts. “It’s a burden that we will have to place to bear. We will see what legal measures will ...

The Ministry of Public Health has released to the Government Information Agency (GINA), the causes of death of two babies in Lethem. Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Karen Cummings and a team of pathologists had visited the region to meet with the mothers and to carry out pathology examinations of the stillbirths following an initial investigation by ...