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Crime situation has become intolerable, says Rohee

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…as gunmen carry out brazen attack on his home Three gunmen on Wednesday morning executed a daring robbery on the home of former Home Affairs Minister, People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Clement Rohee at his Eccles, East Bank Demerara residence. The robbery occurred just about 12:00h after the gunmen gained entry via an open door on the lower flat of the house and tied up the two maids. Reports are that the men ransacked the house and carted off an undisclosed sum of cash and a quantity of jewellery.…

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Cordial relations with U.S. will continue under Trump’s presidency – Granger

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Hours after stunning the world by heavily defeating his favoured rival – Democrat Hillary Clinton – in Tuesday’s presidential election, President David Granger on Wednesday extended congratulations to the new President-elect of the United States of America Donald Trump, stating that Guyana is looking forward to continued bilateral relations with the North American nation. Commenting on Trump’s victory, which makes him the 45th U.S. President, the Guyanese Head of State told reporters from his official residence that America is a democratic country and he believes that the presidential election was…

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Cabinet engages GuySuCo on ailing sugar industry’s future

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President David Granger along with Cabinet members on Tuesday met with officials of the Board of Directors of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), on the current status of operations at the organisation, as well as its future plans. Cabinet was treated to a full presentation by Chief Executive Officer of GuySuCo, Errol Hanoman, and the Board’s Chairman, Professor Clive Thomas. At the close of the presentation, President Granger said the report will be thoroughly examined and discussed at Cabinet in an effort to make a determination on the industry, which…

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Harmon says Govt cannot act on ‘innuendos and hearsay’

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…as Inquiry is set up to probe procurement allegations at Public Health Ministry Following revelations of fraud within the procurement process at the Ministry of Health Public (MoPH), government has sought to establish a one-man board of inquiry to probe the allegations. This newest inquiry launched by the State will be headed by Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, Winston Cosbert, who was presented with the Terms of Reference (TORs) on Wednesday by Minister of State, Joseph Harmon. Cosbert will be looking into the allegations of unauthorised disclosure of information, mismanagement…

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Roraima Airways seeks stronger Guyana-Cuba relations

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Roraima Airways is seeking to increase air lift capacity to accommodate passenger and cargo flow to Cuba through the services of Dynamic International Airways; this is the ultimate aim as Roraima Airways participates in the Havana International Trade Exhibition. This exhibition comes at an opportune time as Easy Sky, Roraima’s newest travel partner, began its shopping tourism flights into Guyana on October 5 which has seen positive results. This is according to Roraima’s CEO, Captain Gerry Gouveia. The trade show is schedule to run from October 31 to November 4.…

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Ali labels CH&PA G$50B revamped housing programme ‘backward, nonsensical’

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Following the announcement by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) that there will be the construction of close to 10,000 housing units under a revamped low-income housing drive with apartment and duplex housing units, former Housing Minister Irfaan Ali has deemed this move as “backward and nonsensical”. The Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) recently told this publication that the decision was conceptualised without the requisite analysis. “You can’t move into an apartment concept without expert analysis and understanding the housing market, without an understanding on the needs of the…

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Caricom States to address “tax haven” label

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Following what was deemed an “unfair and unfortunate” labelling of the Caribbean as a tax haven, a recent Conference of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) has posited that such labelling is grounded more in perception than reality. Senior representatives of international financial institutions, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, regulatory bodies, the European Union Commission, the OECD Global Forum, commercial banks, central banks, governments, Caricom Secretariat and the Caribbean Development Bank met in Antigua and Barbuda last week under the Chairmanship of the country’s Prime Minister Gaston…

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Presidential sweepstakes: Homestretch

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With less than one week to go for the US elections scheduled for November 8, that horse race is now in the homestretch. Even before the primaries were over, this newspaper went out on a limb and suggested that the rank outsider Donald Trump might go all the way. He went on to win the Republican nomination quite handily and then raised his poll ratings to almost equal those of his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, who has been the very definition of a “Washington insider” that was supposed to “play”…

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Corentyne woman chopped to death by abusive neighbour

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A man is in custody after almost decapitating his neighbour at Belvedere, Corentyne. Dead is Bhumattie Delall, 53, of 351 Fifth Street, South Belvedere. Reports are that Delall was in her yard, when her neighbour, a cane harvester, armed with a cutlass, went into the yard and dealt her several chops to her neck, almost severing it. He then calmly walked out of the yard and crossed the street into his yard where he was later arrested. The suspect’s name has been given as Jainarine Balgobin, called “Boyo”. Balgobin had…

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Essequibo bus driver on bail for resisting arrest

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A minibus driver from Anna Regina Housing Scheme on the Essequibo Coast was on Wednesday granted bail after he appeared before the court for resisting Police arrest. Ally (only name given) made his first appearance before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court. It is alleged that on August 24, 2016, he resisted Police arrest at Charity public road. He plead guilty but based on his explanation, a not guilty plea was recorded. Ally told the court that he did not touch any Police Officer and that he…

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