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The Chairman of Guyana’s Elections Commission, Dr. Steve Surujbally is to head a Caribbean Community (Caricom) mission to observe Haiti’s upcoming elections, the regional headquarters announced Thursday. The mission will observe the first round of the Presidential Elections and the second round of the Legislative Elections which will take place on 25 October 2015. The Caricom Headquarters says the fielding ...

Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud on Thursday announced that a full-scale probe has been launched into an allegation that a detective forced a detainee to have unprotected sex in exchange for a case against him to be dropped. “The Commissioner of Police Mr. Seelall Persaud, DSM, has instructed that an investigation be conducted into the allegations stated by the Police Office ...

(WORLDOIL.COM).- LONDON — With Exxon Mobil reported to be moving the Liza discovery in deepwater Guyana into pre-Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) less than five months after confirming the find, the project has the potential to yield significant returns for investors, according to analysts with research and consulting firm GlobalData. The company’s latest analysis states that an FPSO development at the field ...

Even as the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre boasts of strict financial accountability, a leading home furnishing store in Guyana on Thursday ploughed GUY$100,000 into an event that the institution hopes would raise at GUY$1 million. Head Teacher at the institution, Anand Mangru received GUY$100,000 from Courts’ Main Street Branch Manager, Sharon Persaud. Mangru said the funds would go towards a ...

Fire believed to be of electrical origin early Thursday morning destroyed a house at Costello Housing Scheme, Georgetown. No one was injured in the blaze that occurred on Savage Street.  The names of the occupants were not immediately available, but they are well-known as ‘Boxer Money.’ Residents said since about 10 PM Wednesday, they heard what seemed to have been ...

The battle lines appeared drawn between the Chief Executive Officer of the state-owned National Communications Network (NCN), Molly Hassan and the state-owned Guyana Chronicle newspaper over Wednesday’s publication of her salary and allowances. Her statement came just hours after Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo told a news conference that he would tell the Board what he thinks should be done at ...

Controversy has emerged over the appointment of the Chairman of the Trade Union Recognition and Certification Board (TURCB) on grounds that there has not been consultation. Hours after Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo announced that Justice Claudette La Bennett would be chairing the body, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) challenged the decision. FITUG Executive Member, Komal Chand ...

Plans are afoot to expand the reach of Guyana’s state-owned television via satellite to propagate messages about the country’s border controversy with neighbouring Venezuela, according to Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo. “In view of the Venezuelan threat to Guyana, what has now turned out to be a trade and economic embargo against our country, for a country that had condemned a ...

Government hopes that it will soon be able to leverage greater influence on the decision-making body of the Berbice Bridge to lower tolls when the State soon acquires a 10 percent stake in the company. Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo at a press conference on Wednesday indicated that the government is looking to buy shares in the company worth about GUY$45 ...

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo on Wednesday said elected office holders deserve higher salaries to avoid a loss of income prior to their appointments. “You have a number of lawyers in the Cabinet who had shut down their offices or leave their practice to come into Cabinet and, therefore, you have to take recognition as we did when bauxite was nationalized, ...