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The Private Sector Commission plans to advocate for increased access to financing for small businesses, especially those that are operating in the oil and gas sector; so that those businesses could compete in an economy that is becoming competitive. Admitting that the country needs to build capacity to meet the demand of the expanding economy, […]
Guyana is on track to see an increase in visitor arrivals this year with more than 51,000 persons arriving in the first three months of the year, according to the Guyana Tourism Authority. In a statement, the tourism body explained that despite the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic which crippled the tourism industry globally,the country […]
An early morning accident at Mahaicony on the East Coast of Demerara has claimed the life of a 25-year-old man and left a number of other persons nursing serious injuries. The accident which involved three vehicles occurred at 7:40 this morning. The dead man has been identified as Eshwar Arjune. A police report of the […]
GTT will be collaborating with its parent company ATN international to launch a call centre service in Guyana which will serve local and international clients. The company is hoping to commence operations next month, and its 214 member Customer Care team that was hired and trained last year will be part of the new Company, […]
A group of members of the Guyana Public Service Cooperative Credit Union joined ousted Chairman Trevor Benn today, calling for elections to be held for the Credit Union’s board. Benn was ousted as Chairman last week by the Committee of Management in a no-confidence vote. He has described the move as illegal, saying that it […]
A 22-year-old Bartica man was today charged and remanded to jail over the murder of a miner from the same Bartica community. The accused Kellorn Creighton was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge. The incident took place on the 8th May at Third Avenue Bartica. According to investigators, the 24-year-old miner, […]
After several weeks of the number of active COVID-19 cases being below 100 and new cases being in single digits, a total of 56 new cases of the virus were detected in the past 24hours, pushing the number of active cases to 203. In its latest COVID-19 report, the Ministry of Health reported that 42 […]
Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir, has urged Parliamentarians to work together for the benefit of the citizens who they represent. In an address on the opening day of a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association seminar on Tuesday, the Speaker said Parliamentarians on both sides should have stronger cordial relations in order to advance the causes […]
Less than a week after being convicted for attempting to extort $10 million from her ex-boyfriend, a 20-year-old East Bank Demerara woman is facing a charge of escaping from lawful custody. The woman, Princess Williams appeared in Court today before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs and pleaded not guilty to the charge of escaping from lawful custody. […]
A prison escapee who was on the run for over a year was recaptured yesterday morning after he turned up at a hospital in Mahdia seeking medical help with a knife stuck in his neck. The prisoner, 27-year-old Samuel Gouveia is a manslaughter convict who was serving an 18-year jail sentence when he managed to […]
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