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Efforts are underway to equip the Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory and train staff there to conduct DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) testing by 2018, according to Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan. As part of the lab’s qualification and certification process, it has to be fully equipped and the staff have to be qualified to conduct DNA tests which are internationally recognised. “DNA ...

The consultant, who was retained to conduct a high-level economic feasibility study of investing in an oil refinery locally, will be making a presentation to stakeholders later this month. This was revealed by Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman at his most recent outreach programme which was held with the business community. The Minister noted that the expert will be ...

A man was Wednesday arraigned on a charge of attempted murder of a someone he believed had informed police about a crime he had allegedly committed. Twenty-four year old Denzil Wilson of Costello Housing Scheme was charged with the attempted murder of Seon Wright by stabbing him several times about his body. The incident occurred on May 2, 2017. Wilson ...

Fire early Wednesday morning badly damaged a section of the guest house and senior staff club at the Albion Estate owned by the Guyana Sugar Corporation, Fire Chief Marlon Gentle said. He said fire fighters from Guysuco’s Rose Hall and Albion estates and the Guyana’s Fire Service’s New Amsterdam station responded to a call  shortly after 5 PM and eventually brought ...

Incumbent President of the Guyana Public Service Union, Patrick Yarde was late Tuesday afternoon declared winner of the union’s elections, five days after members went to the polls across the country last Thursday. In results released by GPSU Elections Officer, Herman De Souza, Yarde clinched 1,024 votes to retain the presidency. His lone rival, Gregory Gaspar, received 842 votes. Gaspar ...

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeon on Friday submitted  to President David Granger a second batch of six nominees for the post of Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission. They are Retired Justice of Appeal B.S Roy,  Retired Justice William Ramlall;  Attorney-at-law and a former Magistrate, Ms. Oneidge Walrond-Allicock; Attorney-at-Law, Kashir Khan;  Attorney-at-law, Nadia Sagar and businessman, Gerald Gouveia. He said Retired Judges Desiree Bernard, Claudette ...

The Pan American Health Organisaton/ World Health Organisation has dispatched an expert to audit the procurement process at the Ministry of Public Health and the state-run Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), the ministry announced Tuesday. “I found that it (the procurement process) was a bigger issue than I thought” Lawrence said during Tuesday’s early-morning meeting. “I didn’t think it was as ...

The cash-strapped Canadian oil exploration company, CGX Energy, continues to borrow monies from its shareholder to stay afloat, and indicated that future oil exploration offshore Guyana would depend on restructuring its multi-million debts to several companies. Now that American oil-giant, ExxonMobil, has found more than two billion barrels of oil offshore Guyana, CGX Energy hopes that will be an incentive ...

Gregory Gasper, the man leading Team Change to challenge Patrick Yarde for the GPSU’s Presidency Tuesday (May 2, 2017) distanced himself from a Ministry of the Presidency’s social media missive which labeled him newly elected President of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU). Gasper, in an invited comment, told Demerara Waves, he is unsure as to where the Ministry of the ...

Patrick Yarde on May Day made a thinly veiled claim that he and his team won last Thursday’s elections and they were not about to give up power any time soon, in the face of claims by his rival, Gregory Gaspar,  and team that they were closing in on victory to take over the leadership of the Guyana Public Service ...