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Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira has asked Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge to justify a $200M increase in the amount allocated for contract employees under the Foreign Policy Promotions for the Foreign Ministry’s 2017 budget. The increases, according to Minister Greenidge in the Supply Committee of the National Assembly, “reflects almost all the new postings in terms of Principal Foreign Officers ...

​Guyana Power and Light (GPL) workers will before year-end take home a five percent across-the-board increase and other benefits, in a breakthrough one day after technicians downed tools. President of the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE), Kenneth Joseph said in addition to the 5% across-the-board increase, the power company workers will get a 3% in-scale movement. ...

While the Guyana Government hoped for a resolution to the border controversy with Venezuela before UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon demitted office at the end of this year, Guyanese officials will settle for a 12-month application of the Good Offices process before the controversy is referred to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). “It has been a year which ...

Reproduced from Jamaica Observer KINGSTON, Jamaica — A 23-year-old Guyanese woman was last Thursday arrested at the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) after a quantity of ganja was reportedly found in her luggage. The police last evening reported that Michelle Ann Bamfield otherwise called Blacka, of George Town, Guyana arrived at the NMIA about 4:30 pm and attempted to board ...

A woman was killed early Tuesday morning when the car she was travelling in collided with a minibus on the Amelia’s Ward Public Road, police said. Dead is 28-year old Toshauna Frank. She was pronounced dead on arrival, while her two siblings were treated for minor injuries and sent home. Police said the accident occurred at about 1:45 AM when ...

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) continues to be, in the words of Prime Minister Nagamootoo “a black hole,” according to Finance Minister Winston Jordan who was asked today to account for the performance of state agencies during his 2016 review. Turning his attention to the Guyana Power & Light Inc (GPL), which continues to be a thorn in the side ...

Contracted workers and managers are on standby to man the Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) transmission and distribution system should strike action continue, even as the management has decided to hold another round of salary negotiations on Tuesday. Chief Executive Officer of GPL, Wrenford Homer hoped that representatives of the power company and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and ...

Stemming from a three-year research from 2012 into land claims and conflicts of 42 indigenous settlements in Guyana’s regions 1 and 2, communities involved are calling for an independent tribunal for land claims and grievances owing to a number of challenges including interference from former government officials. “Government officials have sometimes pressured community leaders to give up their request for land ...

Relief has come for 280 Dynamic Airways passengers stranded at JFK International Airport in New York over the weekend, according to the company’s local representative Captain Gerry Gouveia, who confirmed today that the flight is expected to reach Georgetown this afternoon. Some 400 passengers were stranded in Georgetown and New York over the weekend when two planes operating under the ...

The $500M allocated for Homestretch Development Inc in budget 2017 to pay off its $798M debt to contractors for the D’Urban Park Development Project is all government will be providing, said Finance Minister Winston Jordan. “I think the money that is owed (by HDI- the company which built the D’Urban Park) is roughly $798M,” Jordan confirmed to a news conference ...