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by Zena Henry The new government seems to be scraping every bit of loose cash the country has lying around and is not leaving out the corporate perks that were generously handed out by the former Administration. This Minister of State, Joseph Harmon believes is “robbing the country of revenue.” He told media workers at a press briefing Thursday June ...

Prime Minister and First Vice President Moses Nagamootoo took the oath as acting President this morning, being sworn in by Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Justice Carl Singh. This is because President David Granger left for the United States early this morning Friday June 12. Nagamootoo is expected to perform duties that fall under the purview of the President until ...

Guyana’s President, David Granger Thursday night appealed to the United Kingdom (UK) to support his country in staving off Venezuela’s increasingly aggressive claim to Essequibo and the coastal waters off that mineral and forest rich region. “We call on all states, particularly the United Kingdom during the regime of which the territorial issue arose and was resolved peacefully by international ...

by Zena Henry The new government has started its sweep into the financial practices employed by the former administration with forensic audits already underway at the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), the recently built Marriot Hotel and the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), to name a few. The government, according to Joseph Harmon, Minister of State in the Ministry ...

by Zena Henry The country’s investment consultancy agency, Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) is set to get an interim Board of Directors that will be made up of representatives of several agencies and stakeholders, Minister of State Joseph Harmon related Thursday June 11. The interim body will be set up for a six month term; correcting the current state where ...

NATIONAL GRADE SIX ASSESSMENT 2015 The results of the National Grade SixAssessment (NGSA) written on 01 April and 02 April 2015 are being released to schools.Fifteen thousandtwo hundred and twenty five (15,225)candidates were entered for this assessment. These candidates also wrote the National Grade Two Assessment in 2011 and the National Grade Four Assessment in 2013. The results being released ...

by Zena Henry The government is not too happy with the amount of tax dollars that have gone into the former Ramotar-Administration initiated Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry so it is giving the body one more sitting following which a report of their findings is to be handed over to President David Granger within one month. This is according to ...

by Zena Henry The new Administration has apparently got its work cut out as several of the country’s main cash earners are either broke or continuously requiring bailout sums. Minister of State, Joseph Harmon during Cabinet’s weekly press briefing held at Ministry of the Presidency Thursday June 11 explained that the money from Venezuela’s oil for rice agreement with Guyana ...

Parliament on Wednesday stepped into the 21st Century when it brought Online its Parliamentary Live –Streaming Project which allowed Guyanese in Guyana and abroad to observe the goings on during the first sitting of the 11th Parliament. In addition to being able to see and listen to their newly-appointed Members of Parliament (MPs) and newly-elected Speaker take oaths and give ...

A woman who was busted for smuggling 10 kilos of cocaine to the U.S. from Guyana told authorities she thought the contraband was diamonds, a Brooklyn Federal Court complaint says. Alizah Henry, a U.S. citizen, was arrested over the weekend at Kennedy Airport after U.S. Customs and Border Protection cops found in her suitcase four bags of white powder labeled ...