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(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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

A woman slit the throat of her newborn baby and took it to Olive Creek, Enachu.

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.

A gold miner was beaten to death allegedly for stealing a ‘mat’ which collects gold during mining for the precious metal. 

Rennita Williams M.P being welcomed to the National Assembly by Speaker Raphael Trotman. Leader of the Opposition David Granger says hospitalised former APNU parliamentarian Richard Allen made the decision to resign in light of his health issues and the importance of the consideration of the budget estimates. Sections of the media have been reporting that Allen was forced out in ...

Baramita is located in north-western Guyana where the red indicator is seen An Amerindian mother of five, eking out a living by mining for small amounts of gold, was severely injured when a mining pit collapsed on her in the North West District (NWD).