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A number of flash drives containing important human resource files about dismissals and promotions have gone “missing” the office of the Public Service Commission but there has been no sign of breakage, police said. The theft occurred between 4:30 PM on January 18 and 7:15 AM on January 19 at the commission’s office on Fort Street, Kingston, Georgetown. Other information ...

The Ministry of Public Works has put in place a system to track the completion of infrastructural works by contractors and ensure that bonds do not expire and the works are not finished, Permanent Secretary Vladim Persaud said Wednesday. He made the disclosure while he was being questioned by the House bipartisan Public Accounts Committee (PAC) about a section of ...

Former Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson on Wednesday said he played no role in deciding on gifts that he had been presented, and he vowed that to ensure that “mischievous” disclosure of records would not sully his character. “In my case, at no time did I ever request, solicit or influence in any way the action of any agency ...

Guyana’s architect of the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, veteran Guyanese civi engineer Phillip Allsopp has diied. He was 95 years old. He was also patron of the Woodside Choir. Ms. Marlyn Dewar hailed him a great supporter of the choir. “Mr. Allsopp was also insisting on t he standards of the choir. He always used to bring back recordings from Wales. He ...

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill on Tuesday said a number of agencies under his ministry has provided records showing the names of former Ministers of Public Infrastructure being associated with the purchase of mostly jewellery as gifts for them. The records show that separate purchases had been authorised by the relevant accounting officers of the Maritime Administration, Transport and ...

Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Retired Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe says nothing has been stolen from his office that will affect the promotion of officers. “There is nothing there that can be stolen that can affect the work of the commission. Whoever organised the invasion… There is nothing there to be stolen to the affect the promotion,” he ...

A suspected serial robber, who was involved in a shootout with police, was early Tuesday morning arrested at the Woodlands Hospital. He has been identified as William De Abreu. At the time of his arrest at about 1 AM Tuesday , he had received treatment for a gunshot injury to his left leg. Police say he and two other persons ...

A 68-year old man was yesterday burnt to death in his home at Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown. He has been identified as Lionel Kyte. The fire occurred at about 4:20 PM at 570- Tenth Field, Cummings Lodge. Investigators say Mr. Kyte lived alone in the ground-level wooden house. He was reportedly ill at the time of the blaze. The landlord ...

Even as former Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson’s name on Monday continued to be associated with another pricy jewellery purchase, a wide-ranging  check has been ordered to ascertain whether similar items had been purchased by other agencies under that ministry, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said. Mr. Edghill also said the General Manager of the Demerara Harbour Bridge, Rolston Adams ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Monday ordered the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to hand over its Statements of Poll and Statements of Recount to the High Court for safe-keeping pending the hearing and determination of an opposition election petition about the constitutionality of the recount order. “The Statements of Poll and the Statements of Recount are to be produced to ...