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Trotman to listen to both sides on budget cuts

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman says he plans to listen to both sides of the House on the issue of budget cuts when consideration of the estimates begins on Monday. The combined opposition parties have indicated that they will be seeking cuts with the AFC already outlining more than $38B that it would be looking to pare from ...

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UPDATED: Two die in Plaisance plane crash

Ms. Florence Dyer-Tyndall’s house well ablaze after the plane crashed into the building and exploded on impact. One pilot and one technical expert have been killed after their United States-registered airplane crashed into a house at Sparendaam shortly after take off from the Ogle International Airport.

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UPDATED: Man survives bullet to the head

A North Ruimveldt man Friday night escaped death by the narrowest of margins after being shot to the head. Desmond Marcus, 49, is a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital with a bullet lodged in his scalp, Demerara Waves Online News has learnt.

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President summons opposition to budget-rescue talks

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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.

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