By News Source Guyana on January 6, 2020
News, Politics
Auditing of the state’s finances for the fiscal year 2018 has found a large increase in the collection of the Value Added Tax (VAT) and a decrease in the country’s internal debt by some $8.2 billion. Those issues were highlighted by Auditor General Deodat Sharma, in his 2018 Audit report. The report was presented to […]
By News Source Guyana on January 5, 2020
Elections, News, Politics
by Ravin Singh Before a large crowd of cheering supporters, Presidential Candidate of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Irfaan Ali announced that he intends to send his rival, incumbent President David Granger into retirement. “I saw Mr. Granger attack me. But my mother taught me to respect the elderly. So Mr. Granger, I will respect […]
By News Source Guyana on January 5, 2020
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by Ravin Singh Described as the “real McCoy” by an earlier speaker, Brigadier (rtd) Mark Phillips sought to assure supporters of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) that he will assume the second highest office in the country after the March 2, 2020 General Elections. “I will be the next Prime Minister of Guyana. I will […]
By News Source Guyana on January 4, 2020
Elections, News, Politics
Outlining a list of achievements by the APNU+AFC coalition since assuming office in 2015, Alliance for Change (AFC) Leader Khemraj Ramjattan implored party supporters to “don’t stop the progress” as they head to the polls on the 2nd March. “Don’t stop the progress,” was the phrase used to punctuate Ramjattan’s speech at the launch of […]
By News Source Guyana on January 3, 2020
Elections, News, Politics
by Ravin Singh President David Granger launched his re-election campaign this afternoon with a call for the APNU+AFC coalition to remain in office because inclusive governance is what is needed to move Guyana forward. Mr. Granger shared this view during the launch of the APNU+AFC campaign at D’Urban Park in Georgetown. “We have put an […]
By News Source Guyana on January 3, 2020
News, Politics
The Central Committee of the People’s Progressive Party this afternoon unanimously endorsed retired Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Brigadier Mark Phillips as its Prime Ministerial Candidate. The party made the decision after former Finance Minister and Member of Parliament Bishop Juan Edghill withdrew from the race for the #2 spot. In a […]
By News Source Guyana on January 2, 2020
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Caribbean Airlines is not happy with a recent report out of the Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission of Guyana. The report called out the airline on its high prices for Guyanese passengers and claimed that CAL was charging those high prices to sustain some of its less performing routes. In response, Caribbean Airlines denied overpricing […]
By News Source Guyana on January 2, 2020
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The Tullow Oil company today announced another oil find in Guyana. In a statement, the company said the discovery was made at the Carapa-1 exploration well, which was drilled on the Kanuku licence offshore Guyana. The company has encountered approximately four metres of net oil pay based on preliminary interpretation. The announcement of the discovery […]
By News Source Guyana on December 31, 2019
Elections, News, Politics
The Guyana Elections Commission today published the Revised Voters List with a total of 661, 378 eligible voters. The list also contains all of the 16,000 new registrants who were recorded during aborted house-to-house registration exercise. With the publishing of the list, voters can make checks to ensure that their names and addresses are correctly […]
By News Source Guyana on December 30, 2019
News, Politics
by Ravin Singh Efforts by the National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS) are continuing to reap success as Guyana has recorded a decrease in the HIV prevalence rate in the country from 1.9% to 1.4%. This was announced by Deputy Programme Manager of NAPS, Dr Niccollette Boatswain at a press conference today. HIV prevalence in Guyana […]