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Residents of River View, Ruimveldt woke up Tuesday morning to severe flooding because the koker (drainage sluice) door has been “jammed” and could not close before high tide. Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson told Demerara Waves Online that he was told that when the sluice attendant attempted to close the door at about 2:30 AM, he could not do ...

Veteran Guyanese broadcaster and former Secretary General of the Caribbean Broadcasting (CBU), Terrence “Terry” Holder was Monday inducted into the CBU’s Hall of Fame. In part, the citation read by another veteran regional broadcaster, Jones P. Madeira states: “The television audiences of the Caribbean also have Terry Holder to thank for another programme, which is still fondly-remembered as demonstrating the ...

Amid claims by the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) that government handed out contracts to its friends to audit several State entities, Junior Finance Minister Jaipaul Sharma told the National Assembly that several persons and entities had been invited to conduct the “stocktaking” exercises. “Mr. Speaker, all efforts were made to have a very wide participation of Chartered Accounting firms ...

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo said members of Parliament representing the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), who are in legal hot water, would not be removed from the House because the party would not set the stage for many of its legislators to be recalled due to a witch hunt. “The issue, though, is when you have what we consider a witch-hunt ...

by Zena Henry Upon making checks, head of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) Komal Chand has confirmed that there had been attempts to sabotage sugar operations at the Enmore Sugar Estate, an entity of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCO). The attempt to damage the factory’s equipment has come at a time when government is trying desperately to ...

With 14 days remaning before the tolls of the Berbice Bridge are reduced, government is hurrying to conclude a formal, written agreement with the Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) for its provision of a subsidy toward the reduction of the tolls. This agreement, which government is looking to conclude before the end of the 2015 Budget debates, is to include ...

Guyana is moving to clamp down on the number of foreigners who are receiving work permits for jobs that Guyanese are available and can fill, according to Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Winston Felix. “Contrary to our friends (opposition parliamentarians), we are not averse to visitors or to having investors what we are saying is that Guyanese must have an ...

by Zena Henry Vowing not to repeat what he insinuated was the unnecessary cutting of budgetary allocations for national projects during the controversial 10th Parliament, newly appointed Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has promised that his party will not be removing benefits for citizens. In reality, the PPP is the only opposition party in the House and cannot use its 32 ...

Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) Member of Parliament (MP), Charles Ramson Jr. on Monday hinted that the opposition party may vote against Budget 2015 in total or in part at the very least, even as he assailed the fiscal package for what he termed as lacking a youth-centered approach. This indication came during his contribution to the debate of Budget ...

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday said the focus of his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) would be holding government accountable to its election promises. “We’ll be here to expose any attempt to move away from what they have promised the electorate,” he said. The former Guyanese leader said the PPP would be placing emphasis on government’s policies that would ...