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Friday’s banging on the parliament desks and the chanting took the House by surprise since the Government benches had considered the issue resolved with the Speaker’s ruling to allow the Minister to speak. Nevertheless after one suspension with the intention of working out the issue, it was repeated each time the Minister attempted to speak.  While the Opposition continued to ...

Guyana has withdrawn participation in proposed oil and gas conference with Suriname as the contested subject of the New River Triangle has surfaced once more. For years the two South American neighbours have been at loggerheads over ownership of the area to which Guyana has stronger legal claim and also occupies. Natural Resouces Minister, Robert Persaud told the National Assembly ...

Guyanese anti-drug agents have been trained in new techniques by the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on how to intercept drugs at airports. And Home Affair Minister, Clement Rohee has credited recent training programmes with recent drug finds despite several of the most innovative concealment methods by trafficker. Recent training which the anti-narcotics agencies are receiving have impacted their ...

A musician has been charged with allegedly stealing a laptop and he was granted GUY$100,000 bail. Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine also ordered Nicosie Clark to return to court on May 9. Police said Clark,20, of 30 Hadfield Street, Lodge, Georgetown stole the computer valued GUY$179,000 from Shane Jones on March 31 at John Street, Lodge. Prosecutor, Michael Grant did not ...

The Guyana Gold Board(GGB) has shut down its offices in the Bartica sub-district and called in the police to probe allegations of tampering during the purchase of the precious metal, the Natural Resources Ministry said in a statement. “The Guyana Police Force is currently questioning several persons including the employees of both the Bartica sub-office and the main office in ...

A major shake-up in the command structure of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has begun with the retirement of two top police officers and the assumption of Seelall Persaud as the new Police Commissioner. Replacing Persaud as Chief of Criminal Investigations is Senior Superintendent, Leslie James who was previously the Head of Special Branch. Taking over from James at Special ...

A huge fire Friday morning destroyed five dwellings, several fuel boats and large quantities of fuel at Turn Basin waterfront, Port Kaituma.    Destroyed were one shop with living quarters, four small fuel bonds with living quarters, three fuel boats, one large trawler and huge quantities of fuel. There were no reported injuries.   “Several properties already burnt out. Nothing ...

The government’s contention that too much rides on the struggling sugar industry’s survival to allow it to fail has not plucked on the heart strings of the opposition during the budget debate. The administration has said some 18,000 persons are directly employed in the industry with another 120,000 benefiting indirectly and it has earmarked a $6B allocation to assist the ...

The APNU’s newest parliamentarian Dr. Karen Cummings says the government’s claims of macro growth are not being felt at the level of the ordinary man. She was at the time making her maiden presentation before the National Assembly as the 2014 budget debate continued on Thursday. Dr. Cummings became an MP following the resignation due to ill health of the ...

Representatives of several institutions in the financial, retail and telecommunication sectors have been trained how to help their companies strengthen risk management with assistance from the Credit Bureau being operated by CreditInfo. The training was conducted by experts from Creditinfo Academy was recently invited to deliver at a two day workshop in Guyana, held at Cara Lodge in Georgetown.   The ...