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At the site of the multi-billion-dollar gas-to-energy project, the Government of Guyana and the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of the United States on Friday signed the deal for the US$526 Million loan that is expected to fast track the project. The financing will support the construction of a state-of-the-art natural gas separation plant, a 300 MW […]
Albouystown resident and market vendor, 24-year-old Wendez Pompey was charged and remanded to jail today, one day after he was busted with 2.5 lbs cocaine in his possession. In Court this morning, Pompey pleaded not guilty to the charge after it was read to him. He was refused bail and remanded to jail until the […]
The body of the Chinese national who fell to his death in the Demerara River while working on the new bridge project was recovered this morning. The Ministry of Public Works identified him as 39-year-old Fu-jian Wei. His lifeless body was discovered by the Coast Guard of the Guyana Defence Force, which was leading the […]
The University of Guyana has requested $14.2B from the Government to finance its operations both at the Turkeyen and Tain Campuses as the Government has now abolished all tuition and other fees at the country’s national university. The request represents almost three times the amount that the institution was allocated last year. Education Minister Priya […]
The revelation by embattled Assistant Commissioner of Police, Calvin Brutus, that Government has instructed a diversity policy in the Guyana Police Force, has triggered a response from Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton. In a Court action, Brutus is contending that the policy is discriminatory and seeks to elevate Police Officers of a certain ethnicity over others. […]
Two days after the Guyana Elections Commission promised free, fair, transparent and credible elections this year, the Leader of the Alliance For Change, Nigel Hughes, scoffed at the statement and explained that the statement from GECOM does not offer any confidence to the electorate. He said his party is maintaining its calls for a total […]
Putting to rest concerns that Guyana may be losing its teachers to the US and countries in the Caribbean, Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand today assured that there is no mass migration of Guyanese teachers. At a press conference this morning, Minister Manickchand said less than one hundred non-graduate teachers resigned in 2024, and a […]
Opposition and PNC Reform Leader Aubrey Norton today said he is not worried about the decision by party member, James Bond to endorse President Irfaan Ali for a second term. He said Bond is free to throw his support behind any candidate, but he knows there is no support base that will be heading behind […]
Embattled Assistant Commissioner of Police, Calvin Brutus, has filed a $1.6 Billion lawsuit against the Government over a Diversity Policy that he says exists in the Guyana Police Force and is discriminatory. In the lawsuit, which names the Attorney General as the respondent, Mr. Brutus details that in the last quarter of 2020, he attended […]
Former APNU Member of Parliament and PNC Reform Member, James Bond, has thrown his support behind a second term for President Irfaan Ali, as Guyana prepares to head to the polls later this year. On Thursday during a visit to Bond’s home community of Melanie Dhamishana on the East Coast of Demerara, the President received […]
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