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A female detective constable has been credited with the seizure of more than five kilogrammes of marijuana and the arrest of man who attempted to escape. Police said during Friday December 11, 2015, a female Detective Constable was in a mini-bus on the Corentyne, Berbice, during which she got the scent of cannabis sativa (marijuana) in the vehicle. “She requested ...

GEORGETOWN– The White House, U.S. Department of State, Partners of the Americas, and NAFSA: Association of International Educators announced nine new 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund grants sponsored by ExxonMobil to support university partnerships and new study abroad programs at an event with Vice President Joe Biden. That announcement was made in a release by the American Embassy ...

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo welcomed Monday’s disclosure by government of a GYD$50,000 (approx US$235.00) one-off tax-free bonus but at the same time argued that Guyanese are worse off because of the scrapping of a number of benefits and that sugar workers were yet to be paid  their Annual Production Incentive (API). “While some public servants will benefit from the $50,000 ...

The now fired General Manager of the Guyana Chronicle was being paid more than GYD$624,000 monthly to, among other things, contractually carry out the wishes of the then political directorate. Michael Gordon’s duties and responsibilities included “Keeping in place an effective organizational structure, support system and mechanisms that will ensure the organisation achieves its objectives as determined by the political ...

The Ministry of Finance wishes to announce that a one off tax free payment of fifty thousand ($50,000.) will be made to all active public sector workers earning less than five hundred thousand dollars($500,000.) monthly. This payment will be effected in December. Some 30,700 public sector workers including nurses, teachers, members of the Disciplined Services and semi-autonomous agencies will benefit.

The Government of Guyana will be paying out a year-end bonus to public service employees, who earn less than $500,000 per month, the Ministry of the Presidency announced Monday. This announcement was first mentioned by President David Granger, late last week, during a recording of the television show, The Public Interest. In the seven months since the new Administration took ...

Two months after being asked to remove the Jagaur hide that adorned the his office, Vice President Khemraj Ramjattan has made no steps to remove the remains of the national animal much to public concern and distress. On October 8, Tourism Minister Cathy Hughes told reporters that she had written to the Vice President asking that the skin be removed. ...

State Minister Joseph Harmon says that the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) has been asked to recover close to $3.5M in arrears from Edul Ahmad for a piece of property leased to him for $500,000 annually in 2008. The lease was granted to Generation Complex Inc; whose principal is Ahmad, for the construction of a 150-room hotel, restaurant, bars, ...

The Government of Guyana is calling it quits when it comes to retrieving the remains of persons who have plunged to their death from the Kaieteur Falls. This is after two persons in recent months plunged to their deaths at the falls and authorities taking as much as two weeks to recover those remains from the falls. Tourism Minister Cathy ...

The bodies of the two boat captains, who disappeared during a boat collision in the Mazaruni River last weekend, were recovered Monday morning. A source said the bodies floated up about 800 meters from where the speedboats collided Saturday night (December 12, 2015). Dead are Roy “Fatman” Roopnarine and Trevor “Rope” Persaud of Itaballi, Mazaruni. Thom Fortune, who was pitched ...