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The Ministry of Health’s engineering experts would first have to calculate how much Guyana would have lost as a result of alleged actions taken by the Indian contracting firm, Surendra Engineering Company Limited (SECL), in the construction of the Specialty Hospital at Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown before taking legal action. “In all fairness to the contractor as well as to the ...

Reeling under criticism in some quarters, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Wednesday sought to reassure Guyanese that it was not backing down from supporting the no-confidence motion in favour of the holding of Local Government Elections (LGE). “A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has committed itself to supporting the ‘No Confidence’ motion against the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) ...

A  woman, employed by Caribbean Chemicals, was Wednesday arraigned on a charge of embezzling more than GUY$7 million from her employer. Dianne Moseley,25, was granted GUY$200,000 and ordered to return to court on October 3 when statements would be served. Moseley pleaded not guilty after the charge was read to her by Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry. She is accused of ...

The Indian construction firm, Surendra Engineering Corporation Limited (SECL), would be blacklisted after it allegedly submitted a bogus bond for the Specialty Hospital that now leaves US$4 million unsecured and almost impossible to recover, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon said Wednesday. “The long and short of it: You’re right. It is unsecured. There was a bond. There ...

The Donald Ramotar administration on Wednesday ruled out giving into demands by Opposition Leader, David Granger for Local Government Elections (LGE) to be  called by next Monday or face the prospects of local and international agitation. Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon said Granger’s September 9, 2014 letter to the Guyanese leader was discussed by Cabinet.  Luncheon said ...

The non-governmental pressure group, Blue CAPS, on Wednesday welcomed the decision by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) to intensify pressure on the Guyana government to call Local Government Elections (LGE). Reacting to Opposition Leader, David Granger’s six-day ultimatum that expires next Monday for an LGE date to be announced, Blue CAPS Executive Chairman, Clinton Urling said APNU’stance was welcomed ...

Guyana’s prevalence rate of HIV has increased but that now indicates that more people are living rather than dying of the disease due to aggressive public education and greater access to treatment and care, Head of the National AIDS Programme Secretariat, Dr. Shanti Singh said. Singh said latest research shows that the prevalence rate is 1.4 percent or 7,700 persons ...

The Guyana government on Tuesday announced that it has scrapped the contract with an Indian company, Surendra Engineering Company Limited (SECL), to build the Specialty Hospital at Liliendaal after that company allegedly failed to account for public funds and allegedly engaged in fraud. Demerara Waves Online News was told that the company has already drawn down US$3,636,000 as a mobilization ...

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Tuesday said its first priority is to get government to hold long-delayed Local Government Elections (LGE) and would not mind national elections being pushed back- a posture the Alliance For Change (AFC) calls “strange.” “I think if we are thinking it through logically and if the President does accede to the demands then ...

Fire late Tuesday afternoon destroyed the historic Umana Yana on High Street, Kingston, Georgetown. Investigators believed that the fire was of electrical origin. The fire consumed the conical thatched roof structure in less than 15 minutes. Built in 1972 for the Non Aligned Foreign Ministers Meeting, the Umana Yana (Wai-Wai for meeting place of the people) was almost 60 feet ...