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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, ...

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guardsman was Wednesday arraigned for allegedly being in unlawful possession of several assault rifle bullets while on a training exercise with the United States (US). Kevin Valladares of 125 Amelia’s Ward, Linden was granted GUY$75,000 bail by Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan. He pleaded not guilty to being in unlawful possession of thirty-two rounds ...

MAGISTRATE Sueanna Lovell  Wednesday disregarded pleas from Lawyer Satesh Kissoon for bail to be granted to cutlass wielding former policeman Shawn Maltus Fordyce, who went berserk back in 2013 and alleged chopped several members of his family. Fordyce, 42, of Lot 132 ‘D’ Field, Sophia, Greater Georgetown, was not required to plead to the indictable charge when he appeared at ...

The Commission of Inquiry into the cash-strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) has not recommended the closure of any of the sugar estates, but wants studies to be conducted on those at West Demerara where the production costs are high, according to well-placed sources. “There is no plan to close any of the estates because of the economic importance of sugar,” ...

(NEW YORK’S newsday.com) A New York Police Department (NYPD) plainclothes officer died late Tuesday night at a Harlem hospital after a suspect shot him in the head during a foot pursuit in East Harlem, Police Commissioner William Bratton said at a news conference at the hospital. Bratton identified the slain officer as Randolph Holder, 33, a five-year veteran assigned to the ...

An Aviation Security agent attached to a private company contracted by an airline was fired for stealing US currency from an outgoing passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), the airport said in a statement. The passenger was about to board a Caribbean Airlines flight to New York when the incident occurred. The female officer was processing the passenger ...