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Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, (PUC), Attorney-at-Law, Dela Britton, has indicated that the Commission continues to keep a keen eye on the operations of the Guyana Power and Light and the Guyana Water Incorporated. She made the disclosure while participating in a Consumer Rights Day webinar, which took place this morning. Ms. Briton explained […]
A post-mortem examination was conducted today on the body of Linden bauxite miner, Neptrind Hercules, who died on Saturday when the bulldozer he was operating was sucked underground by quiksand. Hercules’ cause of death has been listed as suffocation. His body was found inside the bulldozer yesterday after three days of searches and digging into […]
Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hugh Todd has updated The Commonwealth and Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth on Guyana’s border case against Venezuela, which is before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Mr. Todd provided the update during a Foreign Ministers Meeting of the Commonwealth in London. During the meeting, he also reiterated the appreciation […]
Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton has broken his silence over the controversial statements made by Working People’s Alliance Executive Member, Tacuma Ogunseye at a Buxton public meeting last Thursday. Mr. Norton, who also spoke at the meeting, said while the words utterd by the WPA official were “badly chosen”, he understands the frustrations of the longtime […]
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 […]
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