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Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo has been told that he can kick-start the process to select a new Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Minister of State, Joseph Harmon said. “In a short space of time, the Leader of the Opposition will be required to submit a list (of names) from among which the President will have to make a ...

A Dutch firm has been selected to conduct a feasibility study for the construction of a new fixed high-span bridge across the Demerara River. Minister of State, Joseph Harmon said Leivencse CSO’s feasibility study will examine the possibility of a public-private partnership. “This is the final stage of feasibilities before you actually get to construction,” Harmon told a post-cabinet news ...

President David Granger is getting ready to fly to Barbados to join in that island’s 50th Independence anniversary. Minister of State Joseph Harmon said the Guyanese leader would travel to Barbados for the celebration on November 30, 2016. He will be the guest of Barbados’ Prime Minister, Freundel Stuart. Stuart was in Guyana in May of this year for this ...

Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, and outgoing Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, Zhang Limin on Wednesday signed a Framework Agreement for a concessional loan from the Exim Bank of China for the widening of the East Coast Demerara road. The signing took place at the Ministry of Finance in the presence of Minister within the Ministry of Public ...

Stemming from the Harold Lutchman report on the commission of inquiry into Guyana’s public service, the Bertram Collins College of the Public Service was launched Wednesday at the Public Service Department’s Training Division. “The Lutchman Report sets the groundwork for moving forward,” State  Minister Joseph Harmon said in his address to the gathering about the 80 recommendations made in the ...

by Derwayne Wills Close to one year after a position that the Local Government Commission will be readied by local government elections, held last March, Communities Minister Ronald Bulkan is saying he is “not in a position to report anything new.” Meanwhile, the political opposition has named former Town Clerk Carol Sooba; and former Local Government Ministers Norman Whittaker, and ...

A security guard at Hand-in-Hand Trust was shot and injured during an attempted robbery on the business premises located on Middle Street, Georgetown. A foreign exchange cambio operates out of that location. ‘A’ Division Commander, Assistant Commissioner Clifton Hicken said the driver of a car that was allegedly used in the robbery was arrested on Mandela Avenue. The vehicle has been lodged. ...

by Derwayne Wills Even as critics challenge the David Granger administration’s commitment to transparency and accountability, State Minister Joseph Harmon is adamant government has maintained transparency “throughout” their time in office. Recently in the National Assembly, Opposition MP Juan Edghill laid a parliamentary motion calling for the government to come clean on the financial arrangements of the D’Urban Park Jubilee ...

Workers in the private sector will from January next year get a more than 26 percent increase in their wages and salaries, government announced Wednesday. The new minimum wage is now GYD$255 per hour, up from GYD$202. Minister of Social Services, Volda Lawrence accepted a recommendation by the Tripartite Committee to hike the minimum wage from January 1, 2017. The ...

The Deputy Regional Executive Officer for Region Three (West Demerara- Essequibo Islands), Ameena Marlyne Hinds has been held in the United States (US) allegedly with a large quantity of cocaine. Sources said the 36-year old Ameena Hinds has been absent without leave for the past two weeks, a situation that would eventually result in her services being terminated. She was held ...