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Concerns were Thursday raised about the in-built majority of the parliamentary appointive committee that will decide who will be the Director of the State Asset Recovery Unit (SARU) as well as about the possible leakage of bank account information. The issues were raised during a public consultation on the Draft State Asset Recovery Bill  held at the Pegasus Hotel under ...

The Guyana government is moving to streamline the procedure for importing arms and ammunition for the police and army, with Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan heading a procurement committee. Minister of State, Joseph Harmon told a news conference on that the National Security Committee decided that the committee would “look at the procurement of arms for the disciplined services so that ...

Government on Thursday signalled that it has no intention of backing down from the rental of a bond to store pharmaceutical supplies and sought to play down key aspects about the transparency of the deal with a city businessman. “I see it as nothing more than a coincidence that the price paid and the price of the security deposit and the ...

A resident of Buxton, East Coast Demerara was shot Wednesday night while in bed moments after his wife left the bedroom. The incident occurred at about 11 O’clock at Brusche Dam. Injured is Brinsley David.He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and is presently undergoing surgery. “Investigations have revealed that the victim was in bed with his wife ...

Three Japanese and a taxi driver have been robbed of a large quantity of cash and electronic equipment, and police have since arrested a woman with one of the stolen items. “The victims ,who are holidaying, went sightseeing when they were pounced upon by three males armed with handguns, who relieved them of the articles and escaped in a motor ...

An elderly gold miner attempted to kill his wife and shot himself dead afterwards at their Bourda, Georgetown residence, police said. Dead is 73-year old Theodore “Totie” Adams. His wife, 43-year old Sarojnie Warnauth was admitted to a private city hospital where doctors were performing emergency surgery. ‘A’ Division Commander, Assistant Commissioner Clifton Hicken told reporters that neighbours heard a ...

In the wake of serious concerns being raised about a deal to store pharmaceuticals for the public health sector at a bond being rented from a city businessman, government on Wednesday announced that a special ministerial team has been established to examine a range of issues. “The Sub-Committee met today (Wednesday), at the Office of the Prime Minister and was provided ...

(ST. LUCIAN TIMES).- Prime Minister of Saint Lucia Allen M. Chastanet has closely monitored developments, after an unfortunate vehicular accident in Guyana, left Saint Lucian cub scouts injured and traumatized. The accident occurred on Tuesday, July 26, two days after the St. Lucian contingent arrived for the 14th Caribbean Cuboree. The government is particularly heartened to learn that eight year ...

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday said the records show that Afro-Guyanese have achieved more during the PPP’s 23-year rule, even as he maintained that the David Granger-led administration has been discriminating against Indo-Guyanese. “In terms of business ownership, in the tenure of the PPP at no time in our history have there been so many Black-owned businesses for every ...

Amid swirling accusations of a sweetheart deal between government and a city businessman over the rental of a bond to store pharmaceutical supplies,  Minister of Public Health Dr. George Norton said Wednesday that the move was aimed at saving cash. He denied claims by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo that government paid the building’s owner, Lawrence “Larry” Singh two months rent ...