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President Irfaan Ali on Sunday denied that government’s utterances about the flagging state of  Trinidad and Tobago’s oil and gas-dependent economy amounted to a subtle endorsement of the twin island nation’s opposition United National Congress (UNC). “I’m dealing with straight language, straight language. I’m not interpreting language; straight language. There was no pitch for any opposition or government,” he said ...

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Leader, Aubrey Norton at the weekend promised that each ministry would have a desk to deal with complaints of racial and other forms of discrimination, even as the government continued to tout its One Guyana platform. “We will establish civil rights unit in every government ministry and agency. These units will have the right to ...

President Irfaan Ali on Sunday announced that Barbados would be supplying 1,000 Black Belly Sheep to Guyana, as part of a plan to make Region Five (Mahaica-West Berbice) the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) livestock capital. In launching the Black Belly Sheep project at Onverwagt, he said “Region Five must be the livestock  capital of CARICOM.” Dr. Ali said  government would be ...

President Irfaan Ali on Sunday announced that major Canadian airline, West Jet, is sending a delegation to Guyana next week to examine the possibility of transporting large quantities of produce to North America. Addressing a large number of farmers at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice to launch a Black Belly Sheep project, he said his delegation recently met with West Jet ...

Three men were arrested on Saturday in connection with the alleged discovery of GY$79 million worth of marijuana in a house at De Veldt, Upper Berbice River, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said. With assistance from the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard, the anti-drug agency seized 717 kilogrammes (1,580 pounds) of compressed marijuana. “The cannabis seized is believed to have ...

The Director of the Ministry of Health’s Food and Drugs Department Dr. Marlan Cole was Friday officially stripped of his responsibilities and reassigned in what is being regarded as a demotion. “You are instructed to meet with the  Chief Medical Officer and the Director of Standards and Technical Services to discuss your scope of work, the specifics of your new ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday defended his administration’s decision to shut out all of the opposition’s nominees to sit on the board of the Natural Resources Fund and indicated there was hardly any room for compromise with the opposition in approving spending. The Vice President sought to justify government’s selection of former People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) parliamentarian Dunstan ...

Pressure on Friday intensified for a lawyer to be investigated for allegedly assaulting, verbally abusing  hurling racial slurs against a policewoman who was on duty at the residence of his father. But the Guyana Police Force was Friday officially silent on allegations by the policewoman of the Constabulary section. Police Commissioner Nigel Hoppie declined to take calls or respond to ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday said his government was working to tightening electoral laws and procedures but he effectively ruled out reverting to residency as a requirement for being on the voters list. “I pointed out that we are going to work with the international community and all the parties, including APNU (A Partnership for National Unity) in the ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton said he on Thursday told the United States government’s Caribbean Chief  Dianne Feinstein that the mechanism set up to manage Guyana’s oil revenues excludes elected representatives of almost half of the population. Mr. Norton said she committed to taking back his party’s concerns to the US, but he hoped that ...