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The Guyana government 0n Tuesday sent Permanent Secretary Mae Thomas on leave, hours after the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) linked her to several alleged crimes with the Mohameds, regarded as super wealthy Guyanese businessmen. “The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour, Ms. Mae Thomas has been sent on leave with immediate effect,” the ...

WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned members of one of Guyana’s wealthiest families, Nazar Mohamed (Nazar) and his son, Azruddin Mohamed (Azruddin), their company, Mohamed’s Enterprise, and a Guyanese government official, Mae Thomas (Thomas), for their roles in alleged public corruption in Guyana. Additionally, OFAC designated two other entities, Hadi’s World ...

Incumbent leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton on Monday secured the highest number of nominations compared to his rivals, Roysdale Forde and Amanza Walton-Desir, but Mr Forde signaled that his team would be paying keen attention to the validation of groups. The PNCR’s Congress is scheduled for June 28 to 30. Mr Forde vowed that ‘strict’ ...

Aviation industry sources in Guyana were Monday afternoon expressing concern about the impact of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport’s (CJIA) late notification to the Control Tower that the runway lighting system was damaged by severe lightning during a thunderstorm. A local aviator expressed grave concern at the financial impact of the late notification to airlines, questioning who would pay the ...

Less than one day after severe lightning knocked out the runway lights at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) and forced the cancellation of all flights Sunday night and pre-dawn Monday, the airport on Monday afternoon successfully reinstated one circuit of the runway lights, enabling night flight operations, the Public Works Ministry said. The ministry said that update was conveyed ...

The teams from Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) and Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) are continuing to rectify the runway lighting system that was damaged during Sunday’s severe thunderstorm and lightning, the airport said in a statement. “Thus far, they have identified and replaced four cable sections and five transformers,” CJIA said in a statement. The intense thunderstorms and ...

The runway lights at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Sunday night went out because bad weather earlier in the day damaged Guyana Power and Light (GPL) and airport transformers as well as affected the circuits, forcing the diversion of a number of international flights that were due to land there, the Ministry of Public Works said. An InterCaribbean ...

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) had taken note of the limited number of judges in Guyana’s High Court, despite the legal requirement to deliver decisions within 120 days. During the hearing of an appeal in the matter of Ramon Gaskin v Minister of Natural Resources and others, CCJ President Justice Adrian Saunders had told Lawyer for the applicant, Seenath ...

Twenty percent of children in Guyana are living in severe food poverty because they are being fed 0 to 2 food groups per day, according to a just released global report on the subject by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The report titled “Child Food Poverty: Addressing nutrition deprivation in early childhood 2024” explains that the prevalence of severe ...

A man, who was previously questioned in connection with the smuggling of cocaine to the United States, was arrested on Saturday after police allegedly found one AK-47 rifle, one handgun, one silencer, an assortment of ammunition and a quantity of drugs at his residence in Newtown, Georgetown. Police identified the suspect as 37-year-old Edinho Lewis of 126 Da Silva Street, ...