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France’s Honorary Consul to Guyana, Pierre Saint Arroman died in Paris after a period of illness. He was 69 years old. Saint-Arroman, who was born in Dordogne, France, moved to Guyana in 1983 where he founded Amazon Caribbean Guyana Ltd. (AMCAR),Ermina Guyana Inc. and International Standard Systems Inc.  He served as the Honorary Consul for France to Guyana from 12th ...

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has dubbed the new government “extravagant” and “lavish” and says that it was displayed in their 2015 budget estimates. The opposition party has reiterated however, that it will not be cutting those “extravagant” items noted in the estimates but will basically leave the government to their own devices and bring it to the public. Describing ...

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Thursday vowed to crack down on gold smugglers, adding that Guyanese could be on the international radar to ascertain whether they were accumulating and washing ill-gotten gains. “With pressure from the international community for countries to strengthen its legislations to guard against money laundering and the financing of terrorism, there is likely to be ...

At about 2035h. last night Wednesday August 26, 2015, two men armed with firearms held up two female cashiers at the Popeye’s Restaurant, Vlissengen Road, Georgetown, and took away a total of $212,000.00. During their escape, the perpetrators damaged a glass door to the building and discharged shots. Ian Jupiter 27 years, of Campbellville Housing Scheme who was in the ...

Opposition member and President of the Guyana Agricultural Workers’ Union (GAWU), Komal Chand cried “discrimination” in subvention allocations to local unions. The Member of Parliament, during scrutiny of the sums for the Ministry of Social Protection, pointed out that Minister of Finance Winston Jordan announced  in his budget speech weeks earlier that $11m would be allocated for labour unions. Chand ...

The Ministry of Public Security Gun Amnesty Programme, which provides for persons to hand over unlicensed firearms and ammunition to the authorities without facing prosecution, will take effect from September 1, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported. Contrary to what is being reported, Second-Vice President and Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, told GINA that the programme will be tested ...

Guyanese and United States (US) authorities have uncovered a money laundering and gold smuggling racket that has so far fleeced the country of more than US$200 million (GUY$42 billion) worth of the precious metal over a four-month period. Top officials of the Guyana government said a number of Guyanese gold exporters have been smuggling out huge quantities of gold  from ...

Opposition member and former Junior Finance Minister Juan Edghill is adamant that the government’s 2015 budget has no allocation for the announced increase to pensioners. He raised that matter on the floor of the House Wednesday August 26, and declared that the government’s response to the matter did not satisfy the question. The government has promised pensioners an increase of ...

Government has  made good on its promise to gazette their new ministries in time to see the end of the three days proposed for scrutiny of the 2015 Budget estimates. That was one of the issues that caused a major stir in the House on Monday and caused a more than five hour delay in the start of the day’s ...

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo believes that articles carried in the Guyana Chronicle should favour the perspective of government, saying that he was “very, very concerned” about a headline in the state-owned Guyana Chronicle newspaper. Nagamootoo, who during the second sitting of the Eleventh (11th) Parliament was reported by the State-owned Guyana Chronicle newspaper as saying that the paper had been ...