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The Government of Guyana today released the draft Model Petroleum Agreements for both the deepwater and shallow-water blocks paving way for the commencement of some 14 days of consultation. According to the draft Model Petroleum Agreements, the Contractor will be required to pay the Government a royalty rate of 10% of all Petroleum produced and […]
Three days after dozer operator, Neptrind Hercules, and the heavy duty equipment he was operating were swallowed by quicksand at the Bauxite Mines in Linden, the bulldozer and the man’s partly decomposed body were located this afternoon. Over the past three days, mine workers had to carefully use heavy duty equipment to dig into the […]
Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton and an Opposition team met and held discussions with the Special Advisor to the US Vice President on the Western Hemisphere and other US officials on Monday. The Special Advisor to the US Vice President Jospeh Salazar and the Deputy Director for the US Office on Western Hemishere, Caribbean […]
One day after a teacher of the Fort Wellington Secondary School was attacked and beaten by a student and his uncle, teachers of the school walked out over the inaction of the Ministry of Education to address the issue. The high school teacher, Marlon Daniels was attacked by a Grade 10 student and his uncle […]
The Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, has signed a GY$1.3B contract with General Engineering Supplies and Services Inc. for the execution of a Guyana Flood Risk Management Project on the East Coast of Demerara. In his remarks during the signing ceremony at the Ministry of Agriculture on Monday, Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha said though […]
Special Advisor to the US Vice President on the Western Hemisphere, Joseph Salazar and the Deputy Director for the the Western Hemispheres Department in the Office of Caribbean Affairs of the US Government, Michael Taylor, began a short visit to Guyana this morning and met and held discussions with President Irfaan Ali and a high […]
As part of its mandate to assist the poor and vulnerable, the Men On a Mission (MOM) group, which is the brainchild of President Irfaan Ali plans to use a percentage of its $500M government subvention to construct a minimum of 50 homes, even as it works to address the sore issues of gender-based violence […]
Under pressure from family and friends of the missing miner and community leaders, the Chinese-owned Bosai Bauxite Mining company suspended all operations today to step up searches for miner. The miner, Neptrind Hercules, has been missing since early Saturday morning when he was sucked underground by quicksand along with the bulldozer he was operating in […]
More than 24 hours after it was discovered that a bulldozer operator and the heavy duty machine he was operating were pulled underground by quicksand at the Bosai Bauxite Mines in Linden, there continues to be no trace of the man’s body or the heavy duty equipment. Other miners carefully dug for hours on Saturday […]
Opposition Member of Parliament and Former General Secretary of the People’s National Congress, Geeta Chandan-Edmond, has joined several of her party colleagues including MP Ganesh Mahipaul, Natasha Singh-Lewis, Region Four Chairman Daniel Seeram and Georgetown Mayor Ubraj, in condemning certain remarks which were made at a public meeting hosted by the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), […]
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