‘Repackaged’ budget ‘blatantly anti-poor, anti-development’ – Jagdeo
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Damning GRA taxgate allegations: Opposition Leader demands answers, Jordan mute – following Sattaur’s...
(Reprinted from today’s Guyana Times)
Following the abrupt dismissal of Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur and his bombshell revelations that there...
Brassington ends 21-year career with Gov’t
Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Mr Winston Brassington will no longer head the controversial state entity.
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Unions agree to one Labour Day rally – Ministry
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Guyana’s Foreign Ministry in the process of major restructuring
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Gov’t to re-allocate house lots to suit low income earners
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