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Government on Friday rubbished claims by the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) that it has misused at least GUY$3 billion that have been set aside for public servants’ wages and salaries for 2013. A senior official of the Finance Ministry explained that the GUY$GUY$4,403,509 that were allocated for the revision of government employees’ pay-packets was not confined only to those ...

Elroy “God” Grenville who violated the Biblical Commandment- Thou Shall Not Kill- on Thursday escaped the hangman’s noose and was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for killing a man during an altercation of cows. A smiling Grenville walked out of the Berbice High Court back to jail saying “At least I ain’t get sentenced to death.” His sentence by Justice ...

The majority opposition controlled National Assembly is preparing to send back proposed amendments to Guyana’s financial crimes law to a parliamentary select committee. A Partnership for National Unity’s Shadow Finance Minister, Carl Greenidge has said that he wants the Anti Money Laundering and Countering of Financing Terrorism (Amendments) Bill sent back to a select committee. Similarly, Leader of the Alliance ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) plans to contest local government election whenever it is called even if President Donald Ramotar refuses to sign the Local Government (Amendment) Bill into law. AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan’s position is more forthright and definitive than A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) which hopes that the Guyanese leader will eventually do so. At the same ...

The Guyana Local Government Officers Union (GLGOU) on Thursday issued a 72-hour ultimatum for the removal of Town Clerk of the Georgetown City Council, Carol Sooba because she is unqualified. GLGOU President, Dale Beresford said his union dispatched a letter to Local Government Minister, Ganga Persaud calling on him to rescind Sooba’s appointment. Beresford said her confirmed appointment earlier this ...

The Laparkan Group of Companies is selling the William Fogarty building on Water Street and will use the money from the sale to clear off some debts and inject the remainder in the expansion of its cargo and financial services, a senior company official said Thursday. “We would be able to liquidate a number of high-cost debt that continues to ...

(STUFF.CO.NZ).Former South African President and anti-apartheid revolutionary hero Nelson Mandela has died at his Johannesburg home. He was 95. He had returned home on September 1 in a critical condition after being in a Pretoria hospital for almost three months –  the fourth time he had been admitted to hospital since December. He had battled a series of lung infections ...

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) on Thursday said it was poised to issue a strike ultimatum to the government, even as nurses at the country’s major hospitals reported sick. “We intend to intensify this struggle. We are prepared even to be civil disobedient and the people of Guyana must recognize that what results from what will happen is the ...

Hours before conciliation talks were due to begin on Thursday between the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) and the Ministry of Labour, nurses at several publicly-owned hospitals were on a sick-out as they intensified industrial action to pressure government into paying more than a five percent back-pay for 2013. Several union officials and workers confirmed that sick-out was underway at ...

The methodology used to arrive at Guyana’s ranking on Transparency International’s (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) should be released to ascertain how they arrived at 27 out of 100, according to a senior official of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). Director of the CDB’s Economics Department, Dr. Justin Ram said it was difficult to say whether countries like Guyana should ...