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The Indian Action (formerly Arrival) Committee (IAC) on Sunday called on the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to push for a Commission of Inquiry into claims that mostly East Indians are being fired, in the wake of last week’s firing of the Chirf Executive Officer of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), Bharrat Dindyal. “The IAC respectfully opines that the Opposition ...

Exactly one day before Bharrat Jagdeo is expected to kick off the 2015 budget debate, a non-governmental organisation on Sunday said it has lobbied House Speaker Dr. Barton Scotland to put in place water-tight code of conduct that could see the former Guyanese leader being disqualified as a parliamentarian. “We put forward to him that in the formulation of the ...

The mother of prominent Attorney-at-Law and Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes died Sunday as a result of a road accident Saturday night, according to a party spokesman She is Christobel Hughes, said to be in her early 80s. AFC Spokesman Imran Khan said the accident occurred on Middleton Street as she was returning to her Subryanville ...

Two vendors were early Sunday morning chopped and robbed as theu were about to leave their West Coast Berbice home. Police said they came under fire while responding to a report. They returned fire and arrested one of the suspects. At about 0345h. today Sunday August 16, 2015, two men armed with a cutlass and a firearm entered the home of ...

A group of persons seeking the truth about the bomb-blast death of renowned historian and politician, Dr. Walter Rodney o June 13, 1980 on Saturday accused the administration of President David Granger of double-standards in the quest for truth and national healing. “It is disturbing that senior spokesperson of a government that came to power on the banner of national ...

Guyanese are exhibiting mixed responses to government’s decision to raise the value of school-uniform vouchers from $1,500 to $2,000. Reading highlights from the 2015 Budgetary Estimates in the National Assembly last Monday, Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, said “this will benefit more than 167,000 students at a cost of over $337 million.” He also announced a 25 percent increase on the ...

Former Amerindian Affairs Minister Pauline Sukhai on Saturday said attempts by the coalition to capitalise on her receipt of a whopping GUY$2 million in dental assistance backfired because the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) still won the mainly Amerindian populated regions. “The fact that it was peddled pre-election gimmick, as an election campaign issue it did not resound in the ...

Investigations are being conducted into an incident that occurred at about 2320h. last night Friday August 14, 2015, in the compound of Freedom House, Robb Street, Georgetown, in which a so far unidentified man was shot and injured by a security guard. Investigations have revealed that the man was seen on the roof of the kitchen part of the premises ...

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuco), Professor Clive Thomas and the entity’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Paul Bhim on Friday differed about the viability of marketing sugar in the Caribbean due to increasing competition from sister producers. Delivering a presentation at the inaugural National Cane Farmers Conference, Thomas said one option open to ...

The Guyana government has scrapped a contract with a local firm for the rehabilitation of the controversial fibre optic cable from Brazil, even as it explores the possibility of continuing the project that it had criticized harshly while in opposition. Minister of State, Joseph Harmon said he met with the Head of Dax Construction Companay, Faizal Mohammed on Friday and ...