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A one-year-old child who went missing on Wednesday afternoon during a family outing at Top Side Paruima Falls in Region Seven was found dead late last night in the Kamarang River. Family members of the toddler, Romeil Delgado, launched an all night search after he went missing after being left in the care of a […]
CARICOM countries will be using the upcoming Guyana Agri- Investment Forum as a springboard to help stimulate the high food prices in the region as well as to seek out investment, according to Agriculture Ministrer, Zulfikar Mustapha. CARICOM members are seeking to reduce the region’s US$5 Billion food import bill by 25% by 2025. At […]
A health forum on regulatory systems for health products in the European Union (EU) and the Caribbean opened today at the Pegasus Hotel with a renewed commitment from Guyana to establish a biomedical hub to meet the vaccines and pharmaceutical needs of the region. Speaking at the Technical Assistance and Information Exchange Instrument Regional Workshop, […]
The Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has announced a partial amnesty for interest accumulated on ratepayers’ accounts. In a statement, the City Council said the Amnesty Programme, which is guided by a Municipal Amnesty Policy, will end on the 31st October, 2023. The initiative is intended for both residential and commercial ratepayers of Georgetown […]
The Guyana Power and Light company has announced that it has gotten approval from the Public Utilities Commission to implement a “Time of Use” tariff for the company’s industrial and large scale customers. The tariff increase took effect on the 1st October and will remain in place until the end of January. According to GPL, […]
An Accessibility Audit and Observation Study conducted by the Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities (GCOPD) has found that persons with disabilities were significantly hampered from participating in this year’s Local Government Elections. The audit and study was completed with support from the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and USAID The Programme […]
The Former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mae Toussaint Jr Thomas appeared before the Mahdia Dorm Fire Commission of Inquiry today and testified that she cannot recall ever receiving a report from the Officer in Charge of the Mahdia Fire Station, detailing the challenges that the Fire Station was facing as a […]
Opposition Member of Parliament, Senior Counsel Roysdale Forde has written to the Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat, requesting a copy of the investigation report conducted into the unauthorized negotiations between the head of the Petroleum Unit, in the Ministry of Natural Resources and the ExxonMobil company over the audit report and the change to […]
On the heels of a decision by the United Nations (UN) Security Council to send a Kenyan-led multinational security force to Haiti to restore peace and order, the Haiti Support Group here in Guyana mounted a protest outside of the CARICOM Headquarters, calling on the regional body not to support an international security force moving […]
The National Data Management Authority (NDMA) discovered and blocked several attempts to hack the Guyana government’s database earlier this year, but the agency denies that there was a successful cyber espionage campaign. This announcement from the National Data Management Authority follows a recent report by Researchers at the Slovakia-based cybersecurity firm ESET. The Researchers identified malicious […]
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