By News Source Guyana on September 27, 2024
News, Politics
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr. was scolded by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo over his treatment of the Administrator of the Burrowes School of Art, Ivor Thom, following an incident two weeks ago. The Administrator had resigned from his position after a meeting with the Culture Minister. However, he later withdrew his […]
By News Source Guyana on September 26, 2024
News, Politics
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo is highly critical of the 20-point Oil and Gas plan which was released by Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Wednesday, saying that the plan lacks substance and is replete with duplications. In the plan, the PNC Reform Leader explained that within 90 days of taking Office, a PNCR/APNU Administration will constitute […]
By News Source Guyana on September 26, 2024
News, Politics
President Irfaan Ali has dismissed a group of Guyanese protesters outside an event he attended in New York as “noise makers”, who will be left behind of Guyana’s development. Before heading to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, the President stopped in Brooklyn at a Guyanese-owned restaurant for a Breakfast Meeting with several persons […]
By News Source Guyana on September 26, 2024
Education, Finance, News, Politics
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo today announced that since the introduction of the Government’s loan forgiveness programme for University of Guyana students, some 346 students have benefitted to the tune of $203.7M. At his weekly press conference this afternoon, Mr. Jagdeo said the Government is seeking to write-off an additional 2,900 student loans this year which […]
By News Source Guyana on September 26, 2024
News, Politics
The Guyana Water Incorporated has started work on a $130 Million well, which is being drilled in the new LBI Housing Scheme on the East Coast Demerara. When completed, the well will supply water to the more than 3000 house lots that are being developed in the new housing area. During an inspection of the […]
By News Source Guyana on September 26, 2024
News, Politics
As some residents of Linden pick up the pieces of the devastation left by a freak storm which blew off roofs and downed trees two days ago, the Civil Defence Commission has started to offer assistanc In a statement the CDC announced that acting on the guidance of the government, it distributed 30 food and […]
By News Source Guyana on September 26, 2024
News, Politics
Citizens of Guyana and the United Arab Emirates will now be able to travel to each other’s country without requiring a visa. On the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly in New York, Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hugh Todd and Minister of State for International Cooperation of the UAE, Reem Al Hashimy, […]
By News Source Guyana on September 25, 2024
Caribbean & International, News, Politics
President Irfaan Ali addressed the United Nations General Assembly this afternoon and made it known that Guyana will continue to bank on International Law for the peaceful resolution of the border controversy with neighbouring Venezuela. The President told other world leaders gathered at the UN Headquarters in New York that Venezuela has been a threat […]
By News Source Guyana on September 25, 2024
News, Politics
The Opposition People’s National Congress Reform laid out a 20-point plan today for the oil and gas sector, which party officials say will be implemented should the party be elected to Government in 2025. Opposition and PNC Reform Leader, Aubrey Norton, said that the main aim of his party’s plan is to rid the sector […]
By News Source Guyana on September 25, 2024
Finance, News, Politics
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has once again issued a warning to Permanent Secretaries and Regional Executive Officers that the Government will not tolerate deviation from procurement rules in the award of contracts. The Government has embarked on a massive infrastructure programme that has seen billions of dollars being dolled out in contracts. But many of […]