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Several armed robbers early Wednesday morning tied up a guard at Caricom Insurance/National Cooperative Credit Union Limited, Ruimzeight, West Coast Demerara and broke into a vault. They also ransacked the offices of the entity. Sources said one of the bandits placed a gun in the security guard’s mouth. Police said no one has been arrested, but the security guard was ...

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) and the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) differ on the wage and salary package that government has doled out. The GPSU also blamed the David Granger administration for breaching an understanding that sweeper-cleaners would have received a higher pay. “We consider the response of $315 per hour disheartening and call on the Government to ...

by Zena Henry Head of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) Komal Chand has condemned a recent attempted sabotage at the Enmore Sugar Estate of the Guyana Sugar Corporation. The union president told Demerera Waves Tuesday August 11 that he was aware of the reports alleging that huge metal materials with the capability of seriously damaging grinders at ...

Citizenship Minister, Winston Felix, says immigration officers, on Tuesday, intercepted twelve persons who were attempting to enter Guyana illegally via the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). The persons, all of whom arrived on Copa Airline flight CM254 at 2:00 pm on Tuesday afternoon, included six (6) Haitians, four (4) Cubans, two (2) Russians and a Colombian. They did not have ...

by Zena Henry Former President Bharrat Jagdeo is not accepting blame for the failed Skeldon Sugar Factory stating that the then government acted based on information by from a technical team, Booker Tate which was hired to revitalize the ailing industry. The US$200m Skeldon Factory was built during the Jagdeo administration and the former president had declared publicly that should ...

Likely Leader of the Opposition, Bharat Jagdeo, says that Guyanese will see their salaries increased by half the amount stated in the 2015 Estimates because the increase is retroactive to July 1st. “What bothers me significantly is the date that it is effective from…I have to divide all of those by two as it is effective for six months of ...

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) will finally be  taking up its seats in the National Assembly next week for the commencement of the 2015 Budget debate,  Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo announced on Tuesday. Budget debate begins on Monday, August 17, 2015 at 1 PM. Jagdeo says if the salaries for certain categories of parliamentarians are increased, he will not ...

During the presentation of Budget 2015 on Monday, Finance Minister, Winston Jordon, said “…we can all agree that no women should die giving life,” before announcing that “over $133.1 million will be spent on the expansion of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) maternity unity, increasing that facility’s bed capacity by 50 beds.” He also said that ongoing works at ...

As revelations about the former administration’s mismanagement of the PetroCaribe Fund continue to be made, Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, on Monday disclosed that having driven the Fund to a point of near depletion, the former administration pressured the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) pay Venezuela amounts it was due to ensure timely cash payments to rice farmers.  This is according to ...

The coalition government appears set to fight the scourge of drug trafficking aggressively if the more than doubling of its allocation of funds to the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) is anything to go by. The Estimates for the 2015 National Budget show that allocations for the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) are spread out under the Home Affairs Ministry and ...