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The problem plagued Guyana Sugar Corporation has received another $1 billion in supplementary funding to help with the retooling of sugar estates. The sum was approved in the National Assembly on Monday. In explaining the allocation, Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha said the money will go towards critical works at the estate factories, and that is […]
Three employees of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Shefern February, Denise Babb-Cummings and Carolyn Duncan, who are already facing criminal charges in relation to the 2020 elections, invoked their constitutional right to remain silent when they appeared before the Elections Commission of Inquiry (COI) this morning. Having been summoned to appear before the Commission, […]
Faced with a Court action filed by the Opposition APNU+AFC, Chief Election Officer (CEO) Vishnu Persaud has proposed to the Guyana Elections Commission that it moves to facilitate a 14-day exercise to correct the Register of Voters (voters’ list) ahead of Local Government Elections which are set for the 13th March, 2023. In an internal […]
The National Assembly on Monday night passed the supplementary budget for the government totaling over $47 Billion. This is the second supplementary budget sought and passed for the government over the past four months. The national budget was passed earlier this year, to the tune of more than $550 billion, which was almost twice as […]
The National Assembly this morning cleared the $2.9 Billion in advances taken from the Contingency Fund by the Government. The approval, however, followed a series of exchanges as the Opposition grilled the Government on its decision to take money from the Fund for activities deemed not to be urgent or unforeseen. At the level of […]
In a move that could possibly affect the conduct of Local Government Elections in March 2023, the opposition APNU+AFC has moved to the Courts to have the Preliminary List of Voters for the Local Government Elections scrapped. In the application filed by Chief Scrutineer of the APNU+AFC Carol Smith-Joseph against the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), […]
Christmas preparations in the East Coast Demerara communities of Good Hope and Lusignan were dampened on Saturday after a 29-year-old man was electrocuted while erecting a metal Christmas tree in the Lusignan area outside the home of a businessman during rainy conditions. The dead youth has been identified as machinist, Deepak Ramdeen. Ramdeen along with […]
Election Commissioner Sase Gunraj has accused former GECOM Chief Election Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield of repeatedly defying the orders of the Guyana Elections Commission to provide an accurate report of the outcome of the 2020 Elections following the historic National Recount. Commissioner Gunraj made the damning allegation when he appeared before the Commission of Inquiry […]
The Government of Guyana and Hess Corporation today signed a REDD+ Carbon Credit Purchase Agreement paving the way for the oil company to purchase high quality carbon credits for a minimum of US$750 Million between 2022 and 2032 directly from the Guyanese Government. In his address at the signing ceremony at State House, President Irfaan […]
The operators of the fuel tanker, MV Tradewind Passion, that slammed into the Demerara Habour Bridge causing more than $1B in damages last October, were not required to deposit $250 Million in cash before the ship departed Guyana, according to the attorneys representing the ship company. Earlier this week, local authorities suspended three employees of […]
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