Flash back: President Donald Ramotar addressing Parliament shortly after the 2011 general and regional elections. President Donald Ramotar has summoned a meeting with the two opposition parties that together plan to use their one-seat majority to cut the 2013 budget from next Monday, according to well-placed sources.
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Updated: Lethem arms bust suspect surrenders, released without bail after High Court move
Clive ‘Bora’ King Six months after the unearthing of a large cache of high powered rifles and ammunition from a yard in Lethem, a key suspect has surfaced and has been released without charge and he was not required to post bail. Police Chief of Criminal Investigations, Deputy Commissioner Seelall Persaud said Clive ‘Bora” King surrendered earlier this week and ...
Read More »APNU details measures to avoid budget cuts
(L-R) APNU MPs Carl Greenidge, Basil Williams and Joseph Harmon. The APNU on Friday highlighted several measures it said would go some way in avoiding cuts to the proposed GUY$208.8B budget with consideration of the estimates set to begin on Monday. Shadow Minister of Finance Carl Greenidge was asked at a news conference what could the government say between now ...
Read More »APNU amends position on Home Affairs allocations
Carl Greenidge MP The APNU has retreated from its hard position that it would not approve allocations for the Ministry of Home Affairs as long as Clement Rohee retained responsibility for that portfolio. After efforts to oust and silence the minister within the National Assembly failed the coalition announced several months ago that it would not be supporting business brought ...
Read More »Ninety-year-old woman beaten to death
The abandoned house in which the elderly woman’s body was found. The semi-nude and battered body of a 90-year-old woman was found in an abandoned house on the East Coast Demerara. She has been identified as Millicent Prince-Cummings.
Read More »Guyanese software programmers in Caribbean race for the best problem-solving apps
Several participants of the Guyana-leg of Code Sprint 2013 University of Guyana (UG) software programmers are part of a Caribbean-wide race to make open-source programmes to solve social problems in a range of sectors. More than one dozen programmers are participating in the Open Data Code Sprint, which is a part of the Caribbean Open Data Conference and Code Sprint.
Read More »Linden nurses get gratuities; probe launched into delay
Nurses and other staff of the Linden Hospital Complex, who had gone on strike to protest the prolonged delay in the payment of their gratuities, on Thursday began receiving cash.
Read More »Mother kills her baby
A woman slit the throat of her newborn baby and took it to Olive Creek, Enachu.
Read More »‘Help’…Better roads, improved security needed– women miners
Amid the increasing number of homicides and road accidents, the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) on Thursday urged authorities to solve killings and improve virtually impassable roads in the interior.
Read More »Gold miner beaten to death
A gold miner was beaten to death allegedly for stealing a ‘mat’ which collects gold during mining for the precious metal.
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