The state-owned National Communications Network (NCN) is coming under fire from the People’s National Congress for only airing the contributions of Government Members in its broadcast of the National Budget Debate. The People’s National Congress is the largest party in the APNU+AFC Opposition Coalition. In its broadcast of the National Budget Debates on its television…
— MP Narine BUDGET 2022 contains a number of innovative measures, which will meaningfully advance the life of all Guyanese, said government Member of Parliament, Seepaul Narine. The veteran trade unionist was at the time defending the $552.9 billion budget in the National Assembly on Monday. “Budget 2022, I believe, has not missed any area…
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – In a judgment released today, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in its Appellate Jurisdiction, allowed the appeal of the Commissioner of Police, in the matter of Commissioner of Police v Stephen Alleyne [2022] CCJ 2 (AJ) BB. The CCJ has found that in Barbados the law permits a man to…
An abandoned Venezuelan registered aircraft was located over the weekend in Guyana at an illegal airstrip in Karuduni, about 20 kilometers from the Kurupukari crossing in Region Eight. An investigation into the discovery of the illegal plane and the illegal airstrip has been launched by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Guyana Police Force, and…
— company assessing strategic opportunities to fund drilling programme — plans to spud second well in Corentyne Block during second half of 2022 LESS than two months after encountering hydrocarbons at the Kawa-1 well in the Corentyne Block, offshore Guyana, CGX Energy Inc. has announced that its drilling campaign has produced greater results. The company,…
Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony has ordered an investigation into the death of a baby boy who died hours after he was born at the West Demerara Regional Hospital at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara on January 18, 2022. In his daily COVID-19 update on Tuesday, Dr. Anthony revealed that neither the hospital nor the…
Four Venezuelan nationals including two girls, ages 14 and 16, have been charged for the attempted murder of another Venezuelan teenager after allegedly assaulting and stabbing the 16-year-old. The four accused appeared before Magistrate Clive Nurse and were not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge According to the Police report, it is…
THREE men who were sentenced in 2015 to 81-years imprisonment for the gruesome murder of 72-year-old, Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, had their sentence reduced, earlier today, to 50 years by Guyana’s Appeal Court. Orwin Hinds, Kevin October, Cleon Hinds, and Roy Jacobs were convicted for the murder by Justice Navindra Singh at the Demerara High Court in…
The Government Analyst- Food and Drug Department is alerting the general public on the proliferation of foreign labelled cooking oil on the local market branded Vila Velha and Soya. These products are suspected to be illegally imported from Brazil and are labelled wholly in Portuguese which is in contravention to the Food and Drugs Act…
Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha and Opposition Spokesman on Agriculture Khemraj Ramjattan went head-to-head in the National Assembly this morning over the $6Billion in allocations for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) and the handling of the sugar industry by the previous and current governments. Mr. Ramjattan who opened the debate for the second day said…
