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The Guyana government has set aside GY$21 billion (estimated US$100.4 million) for matters related to the construction of the new Demerara Harbour Bridge including fair compensation to property owners in the  new path of the proposed thoroughfare and ensuring that the toll will not be expensive, Public Works  Minister Juan Edghill said on Tuesday. “We have to look at the ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday night dismissed calls by People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Leader, Aubrey Norton that he should disclose his assets and income to prove that he is not corrupt. “My assets and income are matching,” he told a media briefing to deal with the fallout from an interview with the United States-based Vice News. Charging that ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton on Tuesday urged Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo to disclose his earnings and assets, including foreign bank accounts, to disprove corruption allegations, in the wake of his denials that he does not take bribes from Chinese investors. “If he wants to disprove the allegation, then he can make these bank accounts ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has rejected claims of kickbacks to facilitate Chinese investors doing business in Guyana. In an interview with the United States-headquartered Vice News that was posted on his Facebook page, he admits that he helps people but he denies that he takes bribes. “I help people out but doesn’t mean for consideration. It does not mean for ...

A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, Nicolette Henry on Monday resigned from the National Assembly with effect March 31, 2022. She on Monday dispatched her resignation to House Speaker Manzoor Nadir. The resignation letter is dated February 10, 2022 and states “Please accept this letter as formal notification of my resignation from the National Assembly with effect ...

A gold miner of Light Street, Georgetown has been charged almost 300 grammes of marijuana for the possession of trafficking. Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan granted 51-year-old Derrick Cox bail in the sum of $100,000 bail. Mr. Cox, whose address is 105 Light Street, Georgetown, has to return to court on March 14. The case has been transferred to the ...

Amid A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change’s (APNU+AFC) Cathy Hughes’ concerns about the end of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph’s (GTT) monopoly, Prime Minister Mark Phillips said that utility company voluntarily gave up its market dominance status as part of the liberalisation process. Ms. Hughes, a former Minister of Public Telecommunications, said her administration had been “close to completing the ...

Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Friday appealed to the new opposition leader whenever he takes office to recognise the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration. “We are ready to work with whoever is appointed or elected Leader of the Opposition in the interest of Guyana. What we ask in return is for the new Leader of the Opposition to accept ...

A prisoner, who escaped from the Lusignan Prison, was recaptured on Friday afternoon.  Kavin Singh fled on Thursday moments before he was due to appear in a virtual courtroom. Director of Prisons, Nicklon Elliot confirmed that Singh was recaptured in the cane fields at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara, at around 3:50 pm by a Joint Services team. He is ...

A river search was up to late Friday now underway for a man who disappeared during a boat mishap on the Essequibo River at 11 o’clock on Thursday night. Missing and feared dead is 54-year-old Lakeram Kuber, also known as Chico, of Belle Plaine, Wakenaam Island. Those who survived and swam to their home-island are well-known businessman, 58-year-old Feroze Amin ...