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Retired Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force Major General Joseph Singh will lead the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the deadly Mahdia fire that claimed the lives of 20 children, President Irfaan Ali has disclosed. The President made the disclosure on the sidelines of a high-level Regional Agricultural Meeting currently ongoing at the […]
The Opposition has raised a number of concerns about the draft Petroleum Activities Bill, indicating today that the Bill fails to address a number of pertinent issues including insurance and liability coverage, auctioning of the country’s petroleum blocks, and the need for companies to comply with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) standards. The Petroleum […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions is still to offer advice to the Guyana Police Force on the case against Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall. The Minister, who is currently on leave, is facing allegations that he raped and sexually assaulted a 16-year-old school girl at his home back in December. The teenage girl remains […]
The Guyana Government has indicated its readiness to begin negotiations with the China Railway Construction (Caribbean) Company Limited (CRCCL) for the construction of a new four-lane, concrete bridge across the Demerara River in Linden. The bridge, which is estimated to cost US$35M, will replace the existing Wismar-Mackenzie Bridge that connects the two banks of the […]
The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Testing Laboratory has been certified by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) to the National Standard GY 170:2021. The award of the GNBS standard means that the facility has met the general requirements for the operations of a lab. The certificate was presented to GPL’s Divisional Director, Mr. […]
The main opposition, A Partnership for National Unity is looking into claims that the 16-year-old school girl who filed a rape and sexual assault complaint against the Local Government Minister is being denied independent legal representation. APNU+AFC Member of Parliament and former Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond said the rights of the child to proper legal counsel […]
Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand has promised that secondary schools across the country will benefit from upgraded classrooms, laboratories, libraries and other facilities, as the government aims to achieve universal secondary education by the end of 2025. In the last few weeks, the Education Minister has been crisscrossing the country opening a number of new […]
The Government intends to move to correct the salary disparities which exist among some categories of the nation’s teachers, according to President Irfaan Ali. While he did not touch specifically on the subject of salary increases for teachers, the President said the government is pushing to ensure that there is equality in the system. The […]
The bidding period for the 14 oil blocks offshore Guyana is being further extended, as the Government works to modernize the legal framework that governs the local oil and gas industry, and simultaneously finalize the model Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs), that will guide the operation of the new blocks. According to Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, […]
The Government’s holding company, NICIL, has been given the green light by the administration to begin the negotiations for the sale of the Marriott Guyana hotel to American company, X-LLC, that had submitted a bid of US$90 million for the hotel. Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo announced today that NICIL determined that the US$90 million bid […]
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