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Retired General Manager of Guyana’s social security institution, the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), Patrick Matinborough, has died. He passed away at his home in Meadowbrook, Georgetown last Friday, August 12, 2016 at the age of 72. Of his 35 years, at the NIS he served as General Manager from 1988 to 2007. NIS spokeswoman, Dianne Lewis-Baxter said Martinborough, who possessed ...

Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guardsmen are being trained aboard a supply vessel that is providing logistics support to ExxonMobil’s drilling operations in Guyana, the army announced on Tuesday. The GDF said Sub Lieutenant Eweart Andrews and Petty Officer Dornsford Wray embarked on MV Dante for sea training.  MV Dante is a vessel owned by the United States-based Edison Chouest ...

Former Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee has no problem with the review and possible revocation of gun licenses whenever they come up for renewal, but is against government’s plan to conduct a large scale exercise. “I don’t think there should be any widespread recalling and revoking of firearm licenses. That is madness,” Rohee, who is also Genera Secretary of the ...

Dr. Veerasammy Rammaya, who had once distanced himself from the Alliance For Change (AFC) because he had been dissatisfied with a government job offer after the coalition won last year’s general elections, has now resigned from the post of Regional Executive Officer of Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne). The Ministry of Communities said Tuesday that a search was underway for someone ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Michael Khan has allegedly cheated GYD$1.4 million in income taxes, and a government-ordered probe has since recommended that he be punished. “We consider this action by the CEO as a serious breach of the law and an abuse of his authority warranting some sanction by the Board of Corporation,” states ...

Police were Monday probing the brutal chopping and beating to death of a 13-year old boy following an argument over a girl on the East Coast Demerara. Investigators said they were probing the alleged murder of Daveand Sanchar, 13 years, of Plantain Walk, Triumph, ECD, which occurred about 11:30 Sunday night, August 14, 2016 at Plantain Walk Access Road, Triumph, East ...

Linden Mayor, Carwyn Holland hopes that Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan will give the Town Clerk marching orders now that a second no-confidence motion has been passed against her because she appears to have a political agenda against the elected body. “We need the changes and we need the Town Clerk removed”… “I believe that this Town Clerk needs  to ...

Workers, who continued unbroken services from Guyana Telecommunications Corporation (GTC) to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T), are preparing to take their concerns about the inaccurate pensions to President David Granger. Estimates are that more than 100 pensioners have not been getting their correct pensions in keeping with their last salaries at the age of 60 years, because the Ministry ...

The newly-formed Guyana Market Vendors Union (GMVU) says it will be pushing for vendors, who were removed earlier this year from the Stabroek Square, to be relocated just in front of the Stabroek Market where buses once parked. GMVU President, Eon Andrews told Demerara Waves Online News that vending is a culture that relies heavily on sellers’ closeness to passersby ...

Scores of gun licenses are about to be revoked in the coming months, in keeping with a decision by the government to weed out those that had been wrongfully issued, no long required or are in the hands of mentally unstable persons, Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan said Sunday. “It would be a massive, massive exercise so that is the ...