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Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton are odds over the proposed drastic reduction of a parliamentary oversight committee of Guyana’s oil earnings. Mr. Norton said the 22-member broad-based Public Accountability and Oversight Committee provided for in the existing Natural Resource Fund Act represents many interests  to ensure that the oil revenues ...

Three separate fires on Saturday- Christmas Day- destroyed three houses in Georgetown, East Coast Demerara and Berbice, leaving a total of 13 persons homeless, the Guyana Fire Service said on Sunday. The GFS said that at 8:50 AM firefighters responded to a house on fire at Lot 169 Rose Street, West Ruimveldt. There, a one flat wooden and concrete building ...

Former University of Guyana Vice Chancellor, Professor Professor Joycelynne Eleanor Loncke died on Saturday at the St Joseph’s Mercy Hospital. The PNCR provided no details about the circumstances of her passing, but hailed her contribution to the fields of education and music. Dr. Loncke was the last surviving child of renowned musicians, Percival and Ivy Loncke. She will be remembered ...

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Leader, Aubrey Norton said his party was gearing up to woo support from Indo-Guyanese and Amerindians to his traditionally mainly Afro-Guyanese political party. He told Demerara Waves Online News/ News-Talk Radio Guyana 103. 1 FM that as part of his party mass organisation campaign, persons would be assigned to secure support in both Indigenous communities ...

A Beharry Group of Companies Training Officer, who is also bodyguard, was Friday night shot dead in Albouystown, Georgetown and his service handgun and jewellery were stolen, police. Dead is 36-year old Garfield Newton who lived on 545 Mandela Avenue, Georgetown. The martial arts community was almost immediately plunged into mourning for Sensei Newton of the Black Hawks Martial Arts. ...

President Irfaan Ali on Saturday- Christmas Day- said government would be working out policies to ease the impact of  rising global prices as a result of a slowdown in supply chain operations because of the coronavirus pandemic. “The outlook for 2022 is exciting but will not be without challenges as we continue to face a worsening global supply chain. The ...

Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall continues to criticise Chancellor of the Judiciary, Yonette Cummings and Justice of Appeal Dawn Gregory after they ruled that the Guyana Court of Appeal could hear an appeal on the dismissal of an opposition election petition. Mr. Dharamlall’s latest criticism of the Justices of Appeal was in reaction to opposition Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) ...

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday announced that police and soldiers would be joining hands with the business community in a massive clean-up of Georgetown in the coming weeks. He made the announcement during an address at a Christmas Luncheon at the Guyana Defence Force’s headquarters, Base Camp Ayanganna, he said he had already spoken with the GDF Chief of Staff, ...

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday announced that members of the Guyana Defence Force and other Joint Services would get a one-month tax free salary as a bonus, even as he took thinly veiled swipe at the then APNU+AFC administration for scrapping it over the past five years. “For those in our society, who believe you can just take things away, ...

In the wake of concerns by the Guyana Bar Association (GBA), Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall Wednesday afternoon withdrew his call for the Chancellor of the Judiciary Yonette Cummings and Justice of Appeal Dawn Gregory to be removed because he thinks their election petition-related judgement and another decision are biased. When contacted, Mr. Dharamlall said he edited the post to ...