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Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday announced that government would first be writing off some student loans as the first step towards the reintroduction of free university education for the first time in 30 years. He restated that government would phase in free university education for students who are currently paying tuition fees. While government has not decided whether overseas-based ...

St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on Thursday said he did not know that a paper-based object that had been placed before him by an official of the Venezuelan Embassy had depicted a Venezuelan map with Guyana’s Essequibo Region. “While the photographs were being taken, I am advised that someone attached to the Venezuelan Embassy placed the ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday criticised St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves for appearing in a picture holding Venezuela’s map that includes Guyana’s Essequibo County. “What I do know, it sends the wrong signal more so if you accept that he was involved in the Argyle Declaration and has been given a kind of a ...

The Guyana government has received an explanation from St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves about his appearance in a picture with the map of Venezuela that includes Guyana’s Essequibo County, Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd said Wednesday night. Ahead of an expected official statement by the Vincentian leader, Mr Todd said the Guyana government has been ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Tuesday defended the State’s decision to serve a summons to New York-based anti-government activist, Rickford Burke to attend a Guyana court for two indictable extortion charges. “None of the arguments that I have seen has pointed to a provision in the law that prohibits the service of this document overseas,” he said on his weekly ...

A 19-year-old man is wanted for the shooting death of another man and injury to a two-month-old baby girl at Graham’s Hall, East Coast Demerara, the Guyana Police Force said. Police were told that the wanted man, whose identity was not released by police, was told moments before the gunshot by the now deceased man, 29-year-old Anthony “One Natty” Haynes ...

The New Amsterdam branch of R. Sookraj and Sons General Store has been ransacked and more than GY$400,000 worth of items have been stolen, police said Wednesday. “The businessman made checks in his store and observed that his office was ransacked and a number of items including cigarettes, Digicel credit cards, and electronic items valued over $400,000 were missing,” the ...

A man died late Tuesday night in a “massive” fire that destroyed two houses at Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice, the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) said. Forty-three-year-old Tookant Deoarran perished in the blaze that started at the house he was living in at Manager’s Quarters. The house was owned by 43-year-old Asti Deoaarran, the GFS said. A nearby two-storey wooden and ...

President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday announced that Ms Sonia Parag has been shifted from the Public Service Ministry to replace Mr Nigel Dharamlall who resigned last year amid sexual misconduct allegations. Dr Ali said Ms Parag, an Attorney-at-Law by profession, would join Junior Local Government Minister Anand Persaud in executing government’s agenda through the Neighbourhood, Regional and Municipal Councils across ...

A man, who allegedly attempted to smuggle marijuana into the Camp Street Prison by concealing the narcotic in a bowl of soup for an inmate, was arrested on New Year’s Day at that penitentiary, the Guyana Prison Service (GPS) said Tuesday. “While the items were being checked at the self-support area, prison staff discovered the leaves, seeds and stems suspected ...