Just one year after he joined the staff at the Parliament of Guyana as the Personal Assistant to the Speaker, Ean McPherson, a 53-year-old former police and army officer, is being hailed as a hero for holding on to the Parliamentary mace after it was grabbed by Opposition Parliamentarians in the National Assembly on Wednesday…
Describing the protests by the Opposition inside the National Assembly yesterday as “hooliganism”, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry has issued a call for those Members who disrupted the parliamentary sitting to be “dealt with condignly”. In a statement, the GCCI condemned the Opposition’s protest and the behaviour of some Opposition Members of Parliament…
FIFTY-FIVE persons with disabilities, from six of the 10 administrative regions, have completed courses in disability studies, food preparation, general office administration, Spanish and website designing. The training programmes were executed by the Ministry of Labour’s Board of Industrial Training (BIT). Speaking at the simple, yet significant graduation ceremony, held at the Regency Suites, subject…
Senior Minister within the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance Dr. Ashni Singh successfully piloted the amendments to the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Act in the National Assembly on Wednesday, paving the way for further economic gains and national development. Minister Singh was able to push through the historic NRF amendments, remaining undaunted…
The Personal Assistant to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Ean McPherson, has filed a complaint with the Ethnic Relations Commission against Opposition Member of Parliament, Maureen Philadelphia. It was McPherson who grabbed the Mace of the Assembly from the Opposition MPs after they grabbed it from its holding place in the National Assembly in…
TWO bandits invaded the Phase Two, Good Hope, East Coast Demerara home of a 54-year-old woman in the wee hours of Wednesday morning and after beating her with a cutlass, escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash and jewellery. Police Headquarters revealed that the victim, who lives alone, was awakened at around 04:20 hours by…
A mentally ill man who allegedly stole a Toyota Spacio motor car from the yard of a Bushy Park, East Bank Essequibo businessman and drove it to his Vergenoegen, West Coast Demerara (WCD) home, has been arrested. Police said that ranks found the 25-year-old suspect, who is a patient at Dr. Bhiro Harry’s clinic at…
–as government aims to ramp up production THE government is one step closer to achieving its target of doubling the country’s production of brackish water shrimp from 250,000 to 500,000 kilograms by 2025, with the completion of 63 out of 74 ponds in Region Six. The Ministry of Agriculture’s Fisheries Department, with assistance from the…
RESIDENTS of Region Three who were affected by flooding over the past few days are set to benefit from relief supplies which were handed over by the Civil Defence Commission to the Regional Democratic Council (RDC). According to a report from the Department of Public Information (DPI), some 3,000 cleaning hampers were handed over to…
THE Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), in 2021, recorded its legal advice in 3,297 files received from the Guyana Police Force and other local law enforcement agencies. Additionally, 156 cases were ‘disposed of’, 128 of which received attention in the courts, while the remaining 28 were nolle posequi by the DPP. In…
