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The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) on Wednesday said its countrywide leadership would next week decide on the way forward because government has failed to keep its promise to continue wage and salary negotiations. “If we can’t agree here, let’s follow the process. We have conciliation, we have arbitration and let the arbitrators decide. If they say they can’t reach ...

After some amount of dodging, Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Basil Williams told the Supply Committee of the National Assembly that a 2017 budgeted sum of $19.7M is for the purchase of a vehicle to be used by himself. The Attorney General was, at the time, responding to questions raised by Opposition MP Anil Nandlall who questioned what type ...

Several villages across Guyana that Finance Minister, Winston Jordan says have been neglected during the past 20 years, will benefit from a US$12.43 million programme to help revive their agricultural production to supply local and Caribbean markets. The Caricom Development Fund says it is providing US$10.4 million and the Guyana government US$2 million towards the project that initially targets 175 ...

FEARS that there could be a shortage of rice in the country were Tuesday quelled by Minister of Industry and Commerce Karl Samuda who announced that imports from Guyana and Suriname will be allowed into the market, the Jamaica Observer reported. The Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) on Monday temporarily ceased the clearance of rice at all ports of entry, pending test ...

As Guyana and Guyanese await the benefits floated around by prospects of the upcoming oil and gas sector, Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman has warned that contrary to popular belief, not everyone in oil-producing countries are part of those massive wealth-earning sectors. Trotman was at the time responding to questions in the Supply Committee of the National Assembly posed by ...

President, David Granger  said that Guyana deeply mourns the passing of the late educator, author and diplomat, Mr. Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (E.R. Braithwaite), CCH, who passed away on Monday, December 12, 2016 at a hospital in Maryland, United States of America. The Ministry of the Presidency quoted President Granger as saying that Mr. Braithwaite was an eminent Guyanese and distinguished ...

E.R. Braithwaite, the Guyanese author, educator and diplomat whose years teaching in the slums of London’s East End inspired the international best-seller “To Sir, With Love” and the popular Sidney Poitier movie of the same name, has died at age 104, the Associated Press  (AP)  reported. Braithwaite’s companion, Ginette Ast, told The Associated Press that he became ill Monday and ...

Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo says the Commissioner of Information, Retired Justice Charles Ramson Snr. has not reported on his work in recent years, and at the same time he noted that Ramson has no office or staff. In considering the 2017 current and capital expenditures for several agencies under the Prime Minister’s Office, Nagamootoo remarked that he had written Ramson ...

An $80M figure allocated for the Office of the Prime Minister with an unnamed budgetary specification was identified by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo as monies reserved for the Office of the Commissioner of Information, the Department of Governance, as well as the constitutional reform process. Of the monies budgeted, PM Nagamootoo told the Committee of Supply as budget 2017 questions ...

Birth certificates being produced  by the Guyana Registrar’s Office  now have secure features, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Winston Felix announced Tuesday. In responding to questions from opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) parliamentarians during consideration of the 2017 Estimates of Expenditure, Felix said a high quality of paper is being used to print birth certificates and “cannot easily be ...