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With the Government’s recent announcement that it intends to meet with bankers and other creditors to explore ways to alleviate the burden on indebted persons who are battling the foods particularly farmers and miners, several miners in Region 7 are pleading with commercial banks to defer their loans as they have been severely affected by […]
Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon is demanding that the government comes clean about its alleged relationship with a member of the United Arab Emirates ruling family Sheik Ahmad Dalmook Maktoum and his associate Umar Farooq Zahoor after an international media investigation tied the two men to an alleged vaccine racket scandal targeting poorer countries. Guyana has […]
Guyana has recorded 7 more COVID-19 related deaths, pushing the country’s death toll to 437. Four of the seven deaths were recorded on Sunday while the other 3 were recorded on Monday according to the Ministry of Health. The youngest was 51-years-old while the oldest was 84-years-old. Regions 3, 4, and 10 recorded 2 deaths […]
As Guyana seeks to further strengthen its relations with the United States, President Irfaan Ali and a senior Government team on Friday held discussions with the Chairman of the US House Foreign Relations Committee, Representative Gregory Meeks. In a tweet, the US Representative said the meeting underscored the importance of issues such as climate change, […]
Despite ongoing questions surrounding the management of the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation, the National Assembly last evening approved and allocated another $1.5 Billion to aid in the government’s restructuring plan for the company. The additional funding comes just three months after $2 Billion was allocated to the company in the 2021 budget. Agriculture Minister Zulficar […]
The Bar Association of Guyana has expressed its unease over the Government’s move to amend the Police Act to allow the Police to take the DNA of any person taken into lawful custody. The Bar Association said the proposed amendment is “troubling”, adding that it only became aware of the proposed amendment from a media […]
A supplementary budget of $21.3 Billion has been approved by the National Assembly with $10 Billion of that money going towards the efforts to deal with the ongoing floods across the country. Prime Mark Phillips told the National Assembly that the country is facing a national disaster because of the floods and every region has […]
With some citizens still hesitant about getting vaccinated against COVID-19, the Minister of Health told the National Assembly that there has been no case in Guyana of a fully vaccinated person dying from the virus. Facing questions from the Opposition about the COVID-19 vaccines, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony said while there is the case […]
The Government and the APNU+AFC Opposition went head-to-head this afternoon in the Committee of Supply as the government sought to justify spending $1.3B to purchase vaccines. The Government recently spent approximately $957 million for the purchase of 200,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine and $326 million for the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine. During the grilling […]
Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Monday accused the Government of mismanaging the public coffers and the country’s economy. In a statement the Opposition Leader said a mere 3 and 1/2 months after the $383Billion 2021 Budget was approved in the National Assembly the government has returned with two financial papers seeking an additional $23 Billion […]
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