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Serious steps will be taken to prosecute individuals and businesses that do not adhere to laws related to the Tobacco Control Bill which sets out tough fines for violators. Health Minister Volda Lawrence has announced that the Government is currently fine tuning the terms-of-reference (ToR) for the establishment of a Tobacco Council in Guyana. The Minister said that the document is still being crafted but is expected to be presented to Cabinet for approval before the end of this year. The Council could be established as soon as January 2019.…

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…claims deaths may be linked to mercury poisoning The parliamentary Opposition has raised questions over the recent deaths of four Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) staffers; a matter that has seemingly been shrouded in an information blackout. In a statement issued, the party expressed condolences to the relatives of the deceased staffers, whose names were given as Dwayne De Jonge (ranger), Latchman Chiti (surveyor), Leroy Green (carpenter) and Clement Profit (lab technician). According to the PPP Party, all four men were documented to have been affected by mercury poisoning…

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In what was described as its second biggest single oil reservoir find to date in Guyana’s waters, ExxonMobil has announced the discovery of 230 feet of high quality oil in its Ranger-1 well within the Stabroek Block, early January. The company has stated that the well was at the time being drilled by the Stena Carron drillship. Work on the Ranger-1 well had started last November and it was drilled to over 6,000 feet before Exxon made its discovery. The well is 60 miles North West of the Liza phase…

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On the heels of a report by Guyana Times, the Government has admitted that Guyana’s macro-economic outlook for 2017 turned out to be worse than projected, with a 2.1 growth rate being recorded. Finance Minister Winston Jordan made this admission during a press conference at his Ministry. Revealing that the 2017 end of year economic report has been completed, he linked the dismal figures to sectors including sugar. “The economy did not perform as robust as we expected during last year,” the Minister admitted. “Even at the half year we…

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…Kitty round about open Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson, officially opened the Kitty roundabout, and plans were announced to construct two more of the structures, which will help to ease traffic congestion and wastage of time. The Minister also announced that he expected a waterfront project to be completed by 2019, which will accompany the Kitty roundabout as a tourist destination in the country. According to Patterson, the two planned structures are scheduled to be erected at the Timehri junction, East Bank Demerara and at the corner of Mandela Avenue…

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The Government of Guyana accused the country’s independent National Toshaos Council (NTC) of disrespecting President David Granger as it launched a scathing attack on several vocal Indigenous representatives who were not towing the line but exposing serious malpractices of the current A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change Government. In a scathing attack on the NTC and its Vice President, Lennox Shuman, the Indigenous People’s Affairs Ministry accused the Council of being confrontational, demanding and disrespectful in their writings to President David Granger. The Ministry said it has observed a…

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Thousands of students decked out in their new uniforms, bags and shoes were on the first day of the school term greeted with the absence of teachers, and in some cases closed school doors and padlocked gates, as they made their way to school for the beginning of the new school year. This was the scene at many public schools, even as the Education Ministry continues to face the full wrath of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU), whose members gathered in their hundreds outside the Education Ministry’s Brickdam, Georgetown office…

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Thirty nine year old former Bishops’ High School teacher, Coen Jackson was arraigned after he was charged with the rape of an underage girl. Charges were instituted against Jackson after three months of being implicated in a sex scandal which alleged that he had been sexually involved with students Jackson however, vehemently denied the accusations on numerous occasions but did admit to having sexual relations with two former students who are now both in their early 20s.

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The issue of migrating professionals, including those in the health field, is one Government is actively grappling with, and the plan is to increase student intake even as there is a need for approximately 1000 nurses in Guyana. This was communicated by Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence on the side-lines of the launch of a Medex programme. According to Lawrence, the issue has reached the level of the World Health Organisation (WHO). “Migration is not only a Guyana issue. We have signed on to CSME (Caribbean Single Market Economy), and…

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Granger, Nagamootoo claim ignorance of breaking faith The National Toshaos’ Council (NTC) conference of 2018 opened on Monday with incumbent Chairman Joel Fredericks blasting Government for a number of unfulfilled promises. According to Fredericks, the indigenous peoples of Guyana were promised a number of things; such as the revision of the Amerindian Act of 2006; Constitutional reform and land to build a Secretariat for the NTC. The Chairman added that for three years the NTC listened carefully to every indigenous people’s policy Government announced. However, Fredericks noted that in those…

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