Greenidge fails in bid to chop First Lady’s Office allocation
Georgetown: A failed attempt was made by A Partnership for National Unity’s MP Carl Greenidge to cut $10M funding allocated to the newly created Office of the First Lady. The…
Day: April 18, 2013
Guyana, Chile agree to expand bilateral cooperation
Georgetown:Guyana and Chile will be pursuing cooperation in agriculture, capacity building, mining, language training and trade related matters. This follows a meeting between Foreign Affairs Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett and…
Gov’t to work closer with Opposition to formulate future budgets- HPS
Georgetown: Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon at his weekly post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President today informed that subsequent to meetings between Government and…
Ramotar heads to Venezuela for Inaugration
Georgetown: President Donald Ramotar Thursday evening headed to the Venezuelan capital Caracas to take part in the inauguration ceremony of the Latin American country’s new President Nicolas Maduro. He was…
Parliamentary Opposition parties reduces NCN, GINA budget to $1
Georgetown: A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) Thursday evening used their combined majority in the National Assembly to reduce the budgets for Government Information…
Norway plugs US$5M into Caribbean transparency fund
To promote innovative transparency initiatives in Caribbean and Latin America the Norwegian government announced today that it will make an additional US$5M contribution to the Transparency Trust Fund (TTF) of…
Guyana’s first Executive President being Honoured by South Africa
Georgetown: Guyana’s first Executive President, Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham is being posthumously honoured by the Government of South Africa with the Oliver Tambo Award (Gold) Being one of the Nation’s…
One dead several injured after truck topples on the way to a funeral
Essequibo : The police are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 1PM today at Walton Hall Public Road, Essequibo Coast, and which resulted in the death of Banmattie…
Boy rescused from well
Bridgetown. . Christopher Norville was rescused from a 20 feet well by members of the Fire Serviceclose call for a 12 year old boy who fell into a well Wednesday…
US oil & gas company to start prospecting
Georgetown: US based Anadarko Petroleum Corporation recently met with Guyana’s Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud to discuss oil and natural gas explorations. The company is expected…
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