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Tourism Minister Oneidge Walrond appeared to have taken the oath of office as a parliamentarian before she had lost her United States (US) citizenship, but the Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs stayed clear of saying whether she has breached Guyana’s constitution. In the Certificate of Loss of Nationality released by the Clerk  of the National Assembly, it shows ...

Guyana’s Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) has released two shippers in connection with the 11.5 ton cocaine bust in Belgium, and has since begun hunting several other persons even as international cooperation continues apace, a top anti-drug agent said Friday. CANU Head James Singh declined to confirm whether Belgian law enforcement agencies would be providing shipping container seals to track down ...

The Board Secretary of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), Jacques Foster was Thursday night shot and injured. Police said the 44-year old was shot by an identifiable man in his home village of Montrose, East Coast Demerara. Mr. Foster was injured to his right hand from which a warhead was removed by doctors at a city hospital. Mr. ...

Dr. Ashni Singh, who previously served as Finance Minister up to 2015, is back at the helm of  the finance sector but this time under the Office of the President. He was sworn in as as a Senior Minister with responsibilities for Finance under the Office of the President. Dr Ashni Singh took his oath in the presence of Cabinet ...

A new study by the Washington DC-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has given the Guyana government low marks for harnessing the Diaspora, and recommends that every effort be made to encourage overseas-based Guyanese to  craft and implement a national development plan. In a report titled “The Guyanese Diaspora”, the Americas Division of the think-tank says the return ...

Belgian prosecutors have dealt a new blow to a recently disbanded drug gang led by a former Belgian police chief after announcing the largest-ever overseas drug bust “in the world”, the Brussels Times reported Thursday. Head of Guyana’s Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit , James Singh said two shippers “heard we were looking for them and they came in” short;y after 3:30 ...

Following a guilty verdict by the jury in relation to the April 30, 2016 murder of Parika, East Bank Essequibo businessman, Mr Seeram Singh, convicted killer Curt Thomas has been further remanded to prison pending sentencing. The verdict was handed down on Thursday, November 05, 2020 before Justice Navindra Singh. No date has been fixed for sentencing. At the commencement ...

The Republican Party- under the Donald Trump presidency that had repeatedly called on then Guyana President David Granger to concede defeat despite concerns about electoral fraud- is now citing similar concerns in this week’s United States election. Personal Lawyer for President Trump, Rudy Giuliani Wednesday night charged that thousands of mail-in ballots countrywide could not have been verified and that ...

More than 30 entities have submitted Expressions of Interest (EOI) to construct hotels in Guyana, with at least two of them eyeing the prospects of doing so near the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) as part of a plan to make the country a South American aviation hub, officials said Wednesday. Aviation Minister Juan Edghill said government wants at least ...

As the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) wrapped up its annual Pinktober month observation, the company, over the weekend, distributed some 200 Pinktober bottles to several of its Non-governmental Organisation (NGO) partners. Receiving 50 bottles each were the Giving Hope Foundation, the Guyana Cancer Institute, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) Oncology Unit and the Periwinkle Cancer Club. “This ...