News

by Zena Henry If former People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud would like to get paid, he would have to show the government details of consultancy work done under the previous administration where he was awarded multi-million dollar contracts for this service. Minister of State Joseph Harmon said that government is concerned about the way contracts were ...

Guyana’s President David Granger intends to aggressively make a case to colleague leaders of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) that Venezuela’s latest act of unilaterally extending its maritime boundaries will affect regional peace and security. Caricom leaders are due to hold their three-day annual summit in Barbados from Thursday, July 2 in Barbados. Minister of State in the Ministry of the ...

by Zena Henry Government is probing the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Tourism and the Ministry of Natural Resources as it tries to recover more than GUY$1 million dollars in “free fuel,” reportedly drawn by former government personnel or associates of the previous administration. This was stated by Joseph Harmon, Minister of State, when he held Cabinet’s weekly ...

Guyana’s Land Registrar, Juliet Sattaur has been sent on leave with effect July 1, 2015 to pave the way for a probe, according to Minister of State in the Ministry of the Presidency Joseph Harmon. “The Land Registrar has been sent on leave to facilitate an investigation into the Land Registry and certain financial matters at the Land Registry,” he ...

Across the 10 Administrative Regions, today, elections were conducted to elect regional chairpersons, deputy regional chairpersons and councillors to serve the respective regions. The officials are usually sworn-in to their positions by the President. Each region is administered by a Regional Democratic Council (RDC) which is headed by a chairman who along with his deputy and councillors are elected after ...

The Fisheries Department of the Ministry of Agriculture has joined with the Seabob Industry to apply for Marine Stewardship Council Certification (MSC), the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported on Tuesday. This certification is a well-recognised eco-label that proves that a country has adopted sustainable fishing practices. The Seabob Industry and the Fisheries Department are putting measures in place to ensure that ...

The Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Dr. Steve Surujbally and the Commonwealth Secretary General, Kamalesh Sharma have agreed that the tedious and time-consuming system of the collection, delivery and declaration of official election results needs to be changed. “Moving forward GECOM could try to reduce the many steps currently used to transmit elections results while still maintaining unmitigated ...

The Commonwealth Mission that observed Guyana’s recently-held general and regional elections wants local media workers punished severely for breaking the Media Code of Conduct, according to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). The electoral management body reflected on a section of the Observers’ report on the May 11, 2015 elections that recommends that laws be enacted to penalize media workers that ...

Commonwealth Secretary General , Kamalesh Sharma on Tuesday shrugged off concerns about the hiring of Guyana’s former president Bharrat Jagdeo to observe Sri Lanka’s general elections earlier this year. Jagdeo had stated that the Observer Mission had found that campaign in the run-up to the January 8, 2015 general election in Sri Lanka had been marred by a number of ...

The Foreign Affairs Ministry has dispatched a team to Guyana’s High Commission India to peruse the accounts and general administration as High Commissioner Ronald Gajraj prepares to demit office as a result of a change in government, a senior Foreign Ministry official said. The official said an Accountant from the Foreign Ministry in Guyana and United States-based Guyanese Foreign Service ...