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Suriname’s President, Desire Delano Bouterse is Friday expected to pay an official visit to Guyana to continue talks that first held with President David Granger six months ago. The Ministry of the Presidency said Bouterse’s  visit is a follow-up to one paid by Granger to Nieuw Nickerie, Suriname on July 1, 2016 and the two South American leaders would “discuss areas of ...

–Outgoing Deputy Mayor did not fully understand Council’s rules- Mayor Chase-Green Georgetown’s Deputy Mayor-elect, Lionel Jaikarran on Thursday vowed moments after he was elected to stick to his stance on a number of issues that are before the Council, even as his predecessor Sherod Duncan forecasts a rough road ahead. “My positions that I held before are not going to ...

Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Green will once again serve as Mayor for one year from March 2017 after winning by default in an election which saw Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan withdrawing his candidacy for mayorship. Duncan had come out to be critical of the Mayor’s actions in office, even calling for a public debate between himself and Mayor Chase-Green before the ...

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is claiming victimisation by the state’s revenue collecting agency after property tax letters were recently served to five PPP parliamentarians during the 2017 budget debate season. Jagdeo said the MPs served letters included Joseph Hamilton, Indra Chanderpal, Dr Frank Anthony, and Bishop Juan Edghill. The Opposition Leader was convinced the government was using the agency to ...

Incumbent Deputy Mayor, Sherod Duncan on Thursday withdrew from the Mayoral and Depyty Mayoral race  one hour before Georgetown City Councillors are due to hold internal elections. Already, veteran PNCR/APNU politician Amna Ally has said she does not expect anything to change because “we have the numbers.” Following is Mr. Duncan’s statement. When the tenure of President David Granger administration ...

Evidently fazed that it’s now in the open that government is paying their university tuition fees to the tune of millions of dollars from the National Treasury, two government ministers reacted cautiously while the opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) began slamming the government. Junior Minister, Annette Ferguson said she became eligible for a GYD$3.3 million per year scholarship to ...

A question raised in the Supply Committee of the National Assembly by the political opposition for Minister of State Joseph Harmon to provide a list of all current government scholarship awardees has revealed a padded list of persons close to the David Granger administration granted scholarships to the tune of millions of dollars. Junior Ministers of Education and Public Infrastructure, ...

Motorists crossing the Demerara Harbour Bridge will now have to pay between 100 and 300 percent increase in tolls from January 1, 2017, immediately sparking off a call by the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) for the new fees to be withdrawn. “The Office of the Leader of the Opposition views the astronomical increases in the tolls to cross the ...

New revelations surrounding the D’Urban Park Development Project and its building-company, Homestretch Development Inc, were finally revealed in the National Assembly last evening when Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson explained to the Supply Committee the $500M budgeted in 2017 to pay-off the company’s debts. The debate on the D’Urban Park project has consumed the public eye since a motion brought by ...

Two men were Wednesday afternoon arrested shortly after they grabbed a bag containing GYD$2 million from a Tower Hotel accountant shorty after he returned from a city bank. A security guard, who was in the vehicle that transported the accountant with the cash, sustained a gunshot wound to his abdomen after one of the bandits discharged a round, broke a ...