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The United Kingdom’s (UK) Home Office on Thursday announced the arrangements for the introduction of pre-entry tuberculosis (TB) screening in Guyana starting on 31 October 2013. This follows the UK Government’s announcement in May 2012 that it would be extending this requirement to an additional 67 countries, including Guyana, based on the figures for high TB incidence provided by the ...

Long serving trade unionist, Leslie Gonsalves has been elected President of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), the parliamentary opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) announced. The announcement was made in a congratulatory statement to Gonsalves who is also the President of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GBGWU).  He succeeds Norris Witter who has declined to ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Thursday predicted continuing political gridlock, in the wake of President Donald Ramotar refusing to assent a bill that aims to remove some powers from the local government ministers and put them in the hands of a Local Government Commission. AFC Vice Chairman, Moses Nagamootoo said his party would continue to demand reform of the ...

The Georgetown Magistrates’ court was Wednesday abuzz with persons answering charges for the alleged theft of milk powder, a ram and paint. A woman succeeded in getting her cocaine-addicted father charged for allegedly stealing three gallons of paint valued at GUY$16,500. Vanessa Sealey alleged that her father, Orin Van De Cruz Chester stole the paint on November 5 at their ...

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee was Thursday night hospitalised at the Woodlands Hospital, sources confirmed. His medical status was not immediately confirmed but he was in a private room and a close family member was said to be with him. Rohee’s hospitalization comes even as the government side was later Thursday night expected to vote on the Anti Money Laundering ...

President Donald Ramotar on Wednesday assented to three of the four Local Government Bills which were passed in the National Assembly three months after they were passed by the National Assembly, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported. Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon during his post-Cabinet media briefing said that the President assented to the Bills: the Fiscal ...

A North West District vendor might be in for a bitter time as more sweets have tested positive for cocaine, police said. Those sweets and a number of others collected from children are now part of a probe that has been triggered several children falling ill earlier this week after they had eaten the sweets. Their stomachs had been swollen ...

Motorists may soon be powering their vehicles with a 10% fuel blend with emphasis placed on locally produced bio fuel being the additive, Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy announced on Wednesday. Addressing the closing session of a symposium on bio energy, he said that the Office of the Prime Minister was already examining legislation to facilitate the fuel-mix. “If we ...

Thousands of Guyanese were without Internet Service for several hours on Wednesday because the Guyana-Suriname fibre optic submarine cable was damaged, the company said in a statement. International calls were also affected intermittently, GTT said.Subscribers to Internet provided by the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) began experiencing degraded service very early in the day eventually becoming a total outage. ...

The body of a 42-year old epileptic man was found in a gutter near the Ruimveldt Police Station early Wednesday morning. Relatives identified him as Rocky Singh Salickram of Lot 1 Riverview, Ruimveldt. His body was found about 6:30 AM, half an hour afterr he had left home. They said the man was epileptic and “drank a lot.” He sustained ...