GUYANA – LATEST NEWS – 29 October 2015 – Kaieteur News
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2014 Auditor General Report …Over $100M remains unaccounted for on certain eco-tourism projects
OCTOBER 29, 2015 | FILED UNDER NEWS – Guyana’s Audit Office and even the former Ministry of Amerindian Affairs (renamed the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs) are yet to see a single piece of evidence to support the proper spending of over $100M on certain eco-tourism projects. According to the Auditor General’s report for expenditure incurred last year, amounts totaling $119.505M were expended […]
NY says farewell to Guyanese-born cop
OCTOBER 29, 2015 | FILED UNDER NEWS — (New York Times) For the fourth time in less than a year, they gathered, rank-and-file New York City officers in their dress blue uniforms, colleagues from distant police departments, ordinary New Yorkers thrust into mourning by the killing of yet another officer. Some outside Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral in Queens on Wednesday wore colorful necklaces […]
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Guyana light-years away from being blacklisted
OCTOBER 29, 2015 | FILED UNDER NEWS — …as FATF lauds APNU+AFC Govt. over positive steps taken-Williams Guyana under the coalition government of A Partnership for National Unity plus Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) is light years away from being blacklisted by the International Financial Action Taskforce (FATF). This was the report given by Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams, as […]
Hijacked ‘Red House’ land has to be returned – AG
OCTOBER 29, 2015 | FILED UNDER NEWS — …you cannot use Public Office to rob the State—AG Williams The 99-year lease that governs the use of land on which sits the heritage building known as Red House will be quashed. Government is also looking to have the building used to commemorate not just one former President, the Late Cheddi Jagan. This is the […]
City Halls demolition hammer falls on Globe Yard
OCTOBER 29, 2015 | FILED UNDER NEWS — Several families and single occupants who reside in four derelict buildings at the infamous ‘Globe Yard’ are about to be out of house and home. Most have resided there for more than 15 years, but following a decision made by councilors on October 12, last, City Hall’s demolition hammers fell on the front building at […]
Pradoville 11 Scandal…AG Chambers gathering evidence against Jagdeo, fmr. Ministers
OCTOBER 29, 2015 | FILED UNDER NEWS -The Attorney General Chambers is still in the process of gathering evidence in the matter related to a 15-acre tract of land at Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara. The land was transformed into a posh residential community where the lots were sold to several former Ministers of Government and other high level officials, including the former […]
Stabroek Market car park to revert to City control
OCTOBER 29, 2015 | FILED UNDER NEWS The Stabroek Market car park will be under the control of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) after more than seven years of government management. Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green said that the Ministry of Public Infrastructure has expressed willingness to return the management of the car park to the City Council. Former Minister of Public […]
GAWU throws down gauntlet…Demands GuySuCo resume wages talks by weekend
OCTOBER 29, 2015 | FILED UNDER NEWS – …says other public sector workers got salary increase in 2015 Budget The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) has called off its countrywide strike but has since demanded that the wages negotiations between the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the union, be resumed by weekend. Seepaul Narine, GAWU’s General Secretary, made the demands of […]
Post mortem confirms death by poison
OCTOBER 29, 2015 | FILED UNDER NEWS — A Post Mortem examination done on the body of human rights and LGBT activist, Zenita Nicholson, has revealed that the woman died of ingestion of pesticides. The examination was done yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Kaieteur News was told that the woman’s stomach content was handed over to the police and a […]
InselAir to work with Govt. to reduce illegal entries
OCTOBER 29, 2015 | FILED UNDER NEWS — A meeting yesterday between Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix, and representatives from InselAir and Roraima Airways, saw the parties not only discussing Guyana’s air carrier regulations but also agreeing to resolve the issues related to the incident where eight Indian nationals entered Guyana on July 17, last, via InselAir, without the required documentation. According to […]
GTU supports discarding parts of Grade Six Assessment
OCTOBER 29, 2015 | FILED UNDER NEWS — President of the Guyana Teachers Union, Mark Lyte, recently expressed his support for the Government’s plans to discard parts of the National Grade Six Assessment. Lyte said that the union is in complete support of the discard since it has “always felt that Grades Two and Four children should not be tested as they are […]
11-year-old among girls rescued in Baramita
OCTOBER 29, 2015 | FILED UNDER NEWS — – as residents call on Minister Broomes to sweep community An 11-year-old child was among several girls that were picked up in a bar at Baramita on Saturday night, following a visit by Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Simona Broomes, and several high-level government officials. Subsequently, the child was brought to Georgetown and […]
Minister Norton addresses HIV in Guyana jails at Geneva meeting
OCTOBER 29, 2015 | FILED UNDER NEWS – Guyana has been doing well in HIV prevention and treatment in some regards, but the Government is conscious of the fact that there is still a lot more work to be done in the prisons and other closed settings. Making a presentation in Geneva at the UNAIDS 37th Programme Coordinating Board yesterday, Minister of Public […]
Essequibians upset with Jagdeo’s attack on Govt
OCTOBER 29, 2015 | FILED UNDER NEWS Supporters of the coalition government have registered their disgust at Bharrat Jadgeo, former President and currently Opposition Leader. They say that he has upset them with the manner in which he has been ridiculing the new Government. ‘He has no shame, why is he only come
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