Senior Minister within the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh met with the Managing Director of the World Bank Axel Van Trotsenburg on Tuesday. The meeting was held under the theme “Road to Recovery: Tools for Building Back Better in the Caribbean”. Minister Singh was joined by fellow Governors…
The Guyana Public Service Co-operative Credit Union (GPS-CCU) has signed an agreement with the Clerical Commercial and General Workers Union, for salaries and other conditions of employment for the Credit Union staff. The agreement which was signed yesterday paves the way for a 5%, 10%, and 15% increase in salaries for workers for the year…
After a year of facing threats to his life, a 40-year-old single father of Old England, Region Ten was on Thursday last chopped about his body resulting in his right thumb being severed. Aubrey Seon, a construction worker, told the News Room that the suspect accused him of tipping off the police about his (the…
The Guyana Public Service Co-operative Credit Union (GPS-CCU) has signed an agreement with the Clerical Commercial and General Workers Union, for salaries and other conditions of employment for the Credit Union staff. The agreement which was signed yesterday paves the way for a 5%, 10%, and 15% increase in salaries for workers for the year…
NIRVAN Singh, the son of former Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Carl Singh, was slapped with private charges on Wednesday for allegedly using racial slurs against an Afro-Guyanese police constable, Shawnette Bollers. Singh, an attorney, was arraigned before Chief Magistrate, Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Bollers is reported to have been part of…
A fire of unknown origin which occurred on Wednesday afternoon at Lot 14 Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara has resulted in the death of Nichola Marshall Jacobs, a 51-year-old woman of the said address. Police Headquarters reported that the building measured about 20×25 feet and rested on wooden columns about 5 feet off the earth’s…
Vendors outside the Stabroek Market were temporarily removed today as the Georgetown City Council launched a clean-up exercise at the market and its surrounding areas. The area was not cleaned for months as many of the vendors who were allowed to use the area temporarily, built permanent structures. Many of those structures were removed today…
HISTORY will be made today as the first Board of Directors of Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund will be sworn in by President, Dr Irfaan Ali. With Major General (ret’d), Joseph Singh to be named as its Chairman, the Board will also include United Kingdom parliamentarian, David Lammy; Carolyn Rodrigues; Dunstan Barrow; and Ramesh Dookhoo. The…
As part of plans to satisfy the accommodation demand during the upcoming Caribbean Premier League (CPL) cricket season in Guyana, President Dr. Irfaan Ali says that the government will build houses to rent to visitors and then use those proceeds to fund houses for less fortunate families. The President said this on Wednesday night at…
The 21-year-old man who claimed that the stabbing death of his 19-year-old girlfriend was an accident was today charged and remanded to jail for the young woman’s murder. 19-year-old Shenese Walks was found dead with a knife stuck in her neck in a pool of blood in her boyfriend’s apartment last week. In Court today,…
