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Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) of the Guyana Fire and Rescue Service are disappointed that they are ineligible for the one-month bonus for members of the Joint Services and have not been granted a salary increase although they are health care first responders. “When responders went to the bank yesterday to check for the money, there was no money and some ...

Soldiers, police, fire fighters and prison service personnel are to get low-interest mortgages and some construction materials, President Irfaan Ali announced on Wednesday during his visit to the Guyana Defence Force’s (GDF) headquarters, Camp Ayanganna. “This is real work. This is how we are committing ourselves to your development and this is not only for you. This is across the ...

Outspoken activist, Ramon Gaskin is preparing to take his case to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) after the Guyana Court of Appeal upheld a High Court decision that the Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited’s (EEPGL) other joint venture partners, Hess and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), in the Stabroek Block  did not need separate licences, a lawyer ...

The Guyana Reparations Committee- an organisation that is part of the global demand for compensation for enslavement of Africans- on Wednesday expressed disappointment that The Netherlands only apologised to its former colony, Suriname, and its remaining dependencies in the Caribbean. “We in Guyana were somewhat dismayed that our country was not mentioned in the apology by Prime Minister Mark Rutte ...

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) activist Carol Smith-Joseph on Wednesday appeared in court for 14 fraud charges because she allegedly “solely” approving transactions totalling GY$6.1 million while she a board director of the Mahaica Abary Rice Development Scheme (MARDS) Rice Milling Complex Limited. She appeared before Mahaicony Magistrate, Marissa Mittelholzer with defence lawyers Nigel Hughes and Roysdale Forde. The accused ...

Guyanese police are doing well in detecting murders compared to their counterparts in Trinidad and Tobago, Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Deputy Police Commissioner  Wendell Blanhum said on Tuesday. He told the annual departmental awards ceremony that Guyana’s detection rate is at “an all-time high” with 80.3 percent compared to Trinidad and Tobago whose rate is 14 percent. “We ...

Well-known Sworn Land Surveyor Ricky Oswald Ambrose was fatally wounded in Region Seven and his licenced handgun, raw gold and cash were not found on him, and police have fended off claims by the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) that its response was “poor” because law enforcement agents arrived at the scene until Monday. Police said Ambrose,40, who ...

The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDAPADA-G) on Monday welcomed The Netherlands apology for the role that European country had played in the capture and enslavement of millions of Africans, many of whom had been brought to Guyana to work on plantations. “We consider this apology a significant step in the acceptance of guilt and the demonstration ...

Health facilities in Guyana’s interior regions are to be upgraded over the next three years to the value of GY$125 billion, President Irfaan Ali announced during Monday’s commissioning of the upgraded Mabaruma Smart Hospital. He said that upgrades would give the “best possible working conditions” and provide the areas, which include Lethem, Kato, Mahdia, Kamarang, Mabaruma, Moruca, Bartica and Port ...

The 15-year old Christ Church Secondary School student, who was rescued by a football coach from further beating by schoolmates, has been discharged from hospital, even as investigators prepare to charge the two alleged perpetrators, officials said Monday. A Georgetown Public Hospital official said the lad last week underwent successful maxillo-facial surgeries and was discharged from that section of the ...