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A Colombian and Venezuelan  were Friday jailed for a string of violations of Guyana’s aviation law, police said. Colombian Juan David Caricedo Villa, and Venezuelan Gustavo Adolfo Riascos Gomez pleaded guilty to the four offences and were ordered to pay a total of GY$7 million fine or serve nine years imprisonment. However, the court ruled that the sentences run concurrently. ...

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) on Thursday called on public servants to start industrial action against the 7 percent pay increase that government announced. “The GPSU calls on all Public Servants to work to rule and to effectively convey to the Government their rejection with the way they are being abused by them,” the union said.  Work-to-rule leads to ...

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh on Thursday announced a 7 percent increase in salaries for all government workers, plus a $400 million “special payout” to frontline workers. He also announced that government would next year seek to close the gap in public salary scales. He made the following announcements in address to the nation. First, your Government has recognised the ...

Guyana’s Agent in the World Court case concerning the border controversy with Venezuela, Carl Greenidge on Thursday disputed claims by the Foreign Affairs Ministry that representatives of the Legal and Frontiers Departments were “not fully involved in the matter.” He was reacting to the Foreign Ministry’s claim in a statement that the then Head of the Legal and Treaties Division, ...

Incumbent Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, David Granger has not been nominated by any party group for any position. This is the first time in that party’s 60-odd year history that a sitting leader has not been nominated. The PNCR’S Congress is scheduled to be held on December 11. The PNCR did not release the number of nominations ...

In the wake of a leaked letter by Guyana’s Agent for the border case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Carl Greenidge, the Foreign Affairs Ministry  late Tuesday night sought to explain its decision to include two border experts in the process. In a letter dated April 7, 2021, Mr. Greenidge objected to  Head of the Frontiers Section, Donnette ...

Two siblings- Mr. Delonte De Clou and Ms. Ama De Clou- were Monday admitted to  practice in Guyana, marking what Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire remarked appeared to be a Blenman ‘dynasty’ in the legal profession. “Both of you are fortunate in that I want to think that there is a Blenman-De Clou dynasty in the making. We have other legal ...

Acting Deputy Police Commissioner, Wendell Blanhum on Friday bemoaned the shortage of investigators, even as he released figures showing an overall 19.4 percent reduction in crime. “There is an inadequate amount of investigators to police all ten regions,” he said He attributed the shortage of these key personnel to resignations, retirements, transfers to other regions as part of disciplinary actions ...

The opposition Alliance For Change (AFC) and A New and United Guyana (ANUG) disagree with the GY$10 million fines and life imprisonment for a number of election offences but the government said attempts to cheat an election amount to toppling an elected government. ANUG Chairman, Attorney-at-Law Timothy Jonas said the way the proposed amendments to the Representation of the People ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Friday dismissed claims by People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton that the proposed break-up of Region Four into four electoral sub-districts is aimed at rigging future elections by creating additional seats. “Region Four remains the same number of seats. We didn’t create more than one district. We kept the district as one and we ...