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Amid calls for President David Granger to remove Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan and Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud due to numerous incidents of violent crime, the minister said he would not be moved. “That’s the right of a citizen under this democracy…Ramjattan is not doing a good job, they could call for his resignation but I have the confidence of ...

Guyana’s President David Granger on Saturday announced a target of ensuring that every government building is powered by renewable energy over the next four years as part of the country’s drive to eventually eliminate its addiction to fossil fuels. “I do believe the private sector will come along with us but my short-term objective is to make the government green and ...

With the allocation of additional spectrum by the Ministry of Public Telecommunications, Guyana’s telephone service providers have finally launched their 4G networks across Guyana. Improved telecommunication services are a long awaited advent for Guyana given the increasing demands of today’s technological environment. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Digicel Guyana Kevin Kelly officially launched the service in Bartica on Saturday ...

The Guyana government has reactivated the National Disaster Risk Reduction Coordination Platform (NDRRCP), which has only operated intermittently for a number of years, at a meeting held at the headquarters of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC). Chairman of the CDC, Colonel (ret’d) Chabilall Ramsarup and other senior members of the CDC, Chairman of the Guyana Water Incorporated, Dr. Richard van ...

A group of vendors, who normally sell outside the old Guyana Stores Limited (GSL) bond on Water Street, have now been left out in the cold as the businessman plans to tell the High Court that he never granted them permission to play their trade, but instead they had long obstructed him from using the plot of land. An interim ...

The Full Court of the High Court on Friday ordered the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) to halt the sending home or re-deployment of hundreds of sugar workers stationed at the Wales Sugar Estate until they are consulted in keeping with the law. The order was secured by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), represented by its General Secretary ...

A security guard, who was employed at the Princess Ramada Hotel, and two other men were Friday charged with an GYD$8.5 million robbery committed at the Princess Casino late last month. Appearing before Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan,  the trio Wayne Griffith, 29,  Junior Stewart, 30 of Thomas Street, Kitty and the security guard, 35-year old Andre Blackman of Mc ...

President David Granger on Friday endorsed the clean-up of the Stabroek Market Square and called on the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown to hasten efforts to prepare and provide an alternative location for the vendors, who have been removed from the Stabroek Market Square. “I deeply regret that there has been some delay between the removal of the vendors, ...

On Friday morning again the Town Clerk and City Council of Georgetown faced off in a clash and heated exchange over plans to relocate vendors outside of the Stabroek Market and restore order to the Market square. After vendors protested over the past few days over the move, the Town Clerk Royston King and Mayor Patricia Chase Greene hosted the ...

Digicel (Guyana) Limited has donated GYD$2 million to assist in financing GuyExpo 2016, at a time when there has been a cut in the budget for the annual trade fair. The donation by the mobile phone carrier includes its rental of a booth at the Sophia Exhibition Centre where it will exhibit its products and services during the event that ...