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Labour Minister, Dr. Nan Kishore Gopaul on Tuesday disputed claims by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) that garment manufacturers and other businesses could soon lay off workers because inadequate notice about a new minimum wage of GUY$35,000 was jeopardizing existing contracts. The PSC feared that garment manufacturers-exporters- which have to compete with such countries as China, Bangladesh and the Dominican ...

A technician contracted by the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) was Tuesday afternoon shocked and severely burnt while on a utility pole at Parika, East Bank Essequibo. He has been identified as 30-year old Rayon Henry of N Bent Street, Wortmanville Georgetown. He is attached to the metering department. Well-placed sources said the linesman was assisted down by a colleague ...

One person has died and two others are seriously injured following an accident on the trail to Lethem, reports say. The dead man has been identified as 26-year old Trevon Morris, a contract worker attached to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T), who lived at ‘B’ Field, Sophia. The injured are 37-year old Jermaine Prince, who was the driver, ...

Executive member of the People’s Progressive Party Clement Rohee says deliberations on the party’s political direction leading up to 2016 will be a key feature of its upcoming Congress in August. Speaking at a party news conference on Monday he noted that the last Congress was held five years ago. The congress is to be held every three years but ...

At least twenty yachts are expected to grace Guyana’s waters come September, as the 10 day Nereid’s Rally leaves Trinidad & Tobago, bound for Guyana and French Guiana, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) announced on Monday. Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Irfan Ali met Sunday with the organizer of this event, Mr. Davide Matelicani along with Mr. Kit Nascimento, ...

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee on Monday said Guyanese police could be called in to probe an alleged fraud in the Citizens Security Programme (CSP) after the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) completed its probe. He said a copy of the complaint by an aggrieved contractor was already dispatched to the police. “The police were given a copy of the ...

Foul play is suspected in the death of a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier whose badly decomposed body was found in his locked house, police say. Chief of Criminal Investigations, Deputy Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud said an autopsy revealed that Corporal Akini Sampson,38, died of shock and blunt trauma to the head. Persaud theorised that the man might have been ...

Guyana is turning to Brazil for help with sophisticated crime scene forensic tests because Caribbean laboratories are taking too long to conduct them and return results, a senior police official said Monday. Chief of Criminal Investigations, Deputy Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud said details are being finalized with the Brazilian liaison officer in Georgetown before the first set of samples is ...

Distressed at the alleged beating of a Rupununi woman by a policeman, the Home Affairs Ministry on Monday said it was still awaiting an official report on the incident. “The Ministry is dismayed by this very serious allegation, which implicates a serving member of the Guyana Police Force,” the ministry said in a statement. Chief of Criminal Iinvestigations, Deputy Police ...

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee says the staff for the GUY$450M Police Forensic Laboratory has been identified. He told reporters on Monday at a PPP press conference that the vacancies were filled by persons who responded to advertisements in the newspapers. “A panel was set up and they have selected what I would consider to be highly qualified (people); in ...