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In a simple ceremony held at the Ministry of Natural Resources on August 23, 2016, several small miners received letters of allocation for mining lands from members of the Closed Area Committee (CAC),Guyana’s Ministry of Natural Resources said in a statement. This begins to fulfill a promise made by Minister of Natural Resources, Honourable Raphael Trotman to small miners at the ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is insisting that Guyana’s narcotics law be amended to  scrap jail terms for  the possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use, and  the opposition People’s Progressive Party-Civic’s (PPPC) parliamentarians are expected to vote with their conscience instead of along strictly party line. AFC Leader and Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan told reporters ...

Despite an ongoing brain-drain of trained members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF), Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan on Wednesday ruled out those law enforcement personnel receiving higher salaries because other government employees would also demand increases. “It is very difficult at this stage to increase salaries. The minute you start increasing policemen salaries, the nurses are going to jump ...

Hours after a man was shot dead and his female companion seriously injured allegedly by a licensed firearm holder, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan on Wednesday said that incident is a striking example of why some gun permits have to be revoked. “We got a lot of people , who are not mentally sound in this place, and they carry ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) , Michael Khan will be asked to take his accumulated annual leave to pave the way for government to review a damning investigative report into the affairs of that health care institution, sources said. Khan resumed duty after the audit was completed, causing a split between the Board of Directors ...

Guyana’s 2017 National Budget will be presented on December 5, 2016 and to assist with its preparation, government is contemplating the establishment of ministerial planning units, President David Granger announced Monday. “We can only maintain that pattern of preparation if there are established planning units and the Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs will have such a planning unit,”  he said ...

Guyana’s President David Granger on Monday recommended the formation of an authority oversee and fast-track the implementation of decisions by the National Toshaos Council (NTC) and other decision-making bodies;  an announcement that has drawn sharp criticism from shadow Indigenous People’s Affairs Minister, Pauline Sukhai but welcomed by the NTC Chairman. Granger envisaged that a five person National Indigenous People’s Authority ...

At a time when concerns are being raised about insufficient government funding for the Critchlow Labour College, Guyana Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo urged the labour movement to help train workers for the oil and gas sector. Speaking at the weekend at the Clerical and Commercial Workers’ Union’s (CCWU) 4th Triennial Delegates Conference, he said trade unions must rise to the challenge of ...

One of the suspects in what appeared to have been a planned robbery at a grocery has led investigators to the discovery of a handgun, police said. “The male accomplice who was taken into police custody, admitted to being in company of the deceased and took investigators to a location at Pearl Village, East Bank Demerara where he handed over ...

A bandit was shot dead  early Sunday morning allegedly by one of his four other accomplices as they fled the East Bank Berbice home of a businessman after beating his daughters and carting off cash and jewellery. Dead is Odan “Stew” / “Sunil” Lallbeharry of New Forest, East Canje, Berbice. Investigators said he was well-known to police. Investigators said that ...