By News Source Guyana on January 4, 2024
News, Politics
Guyana’s new Ambassador to Venezuela, Dr. Richard Van West Charles, will travel to the neighbouring country next week to present his Credentials to Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. During an interview with News Source this morning, Dr. Van-West Charles, said he is looking forward to taking up his role in Venezuela to address certain crucial issues. […]
By News Source Guyana on January 3, 2024
News, Politics
Minister within the Ministry of Housing and Water, Susan Rodrigues today said although the Ministry of Housing received numerous complaints about corrupt land transactions in 2023, it was only able to terminate the service of a single employee, due to the lack of concrete evidence to support the other allegations. Together with the Minister of […]
By News Source Guyana on January 3, 2024
News, Politics
With a total of 28,368 house lots allocated in the past three years, the Central Housing and Planning Authority is pushing to have infrastructure works completed to allow persons to gain access to those lots to begin construction. At press conference at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC)today, the Housing and Water Minister Collin Croal […]
By News Source Guyana on January 3, 2024
News, Politics
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has announced that it managed to dispose of 221 cases last year. Of that amount, the DPP chambers said ,153 of the cases received attention in the High Courts in Demerara, Berbice and Essequibo, while 58 matters were not prosecuted by the DPP. Of the 153 […]
By News Source Guyana on January 3, 2024
News, Politics
Despite its many troubles over the year, the sugar industry managed to record a 28% increase in sugar production last year, when compared to the 2022 figures. However, production still remains lower than the production figures of 2020. At a weekend press conference, the Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha said the industry is performing better, […]
By News Source Guyana on January 3, 2024
News, Politics
The Ministry of Public Works has revealed that there were no major breaches to the country’s sea and river defenses last year. Public Works Minister, Juan Edghill is crediting increased monitoring and maintenance of structures across the shore lines as the reason for no major breaches taking place. During last year, Mr. Edghill said 5.5 […]
By News Source Guyana on January 3, 2024
News, Politics
With another withdrawal of $31.6 billion in December from the country’s Natural Resource Fund, the government has taken its total withdrawal from the oil fund to $208.4 Billion for 2023, the Ministry of Finance has said. The Finance Ministry said the withdrawals are in keeping with the Parliamentary approval given to access the fund last […]
By News Source Guyana on January 3, 2024
News, Politics
President Irfaan Ali has announced that the Government will make available five hundred (500) new lots on the Linden Soesdyke Highway, to address the question of squatting there. This was among several announcements made by the President in a brief video release on his social media pages on Tuesday night. “Importantly today, we also finalized […]
By News Source Guyana on January 3, 2024
News, Politics
There are 1,735 Co-Op Societies spread across Guyana, but according to the Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton, the majority of those Co-ops are dysfunctional, and many have failed to utilize government lands that were given to them over the years. He said the Government is considering a move to repossess those lands that are not […]
By News Source Guyana on January 3, 2024
Crime, News
Police and Prison officials arrested a Corentyne man on Tuesday morning after he attempted to smuggle two grams of marijuana into the New Amsterdam prison in his underwear. In a statement, the Prison Service said 29-year-old Safraaz Hoossein, was at the Prison on Tuesday to deliver personal items for his brother, who is an inmate […]