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Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo’s office on Thursday accused government of shifting the goal-post from financial to technical reasons for opposing the Amaila Falls Hydro Power (AFHP) project, while at the same time signalling that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) was willing to hold talks about recommendations to revive the more than US$800 million project. “The PPP wishes to see AFHP re-start ...

The 16-year old boy, who drove a car in the compound of a New Amsterdam orphanage where it slammed into a wall that crumbled and killed a nine-year old orphan, was Thursday charged with manslaughter. Also an orphan at the Alpha Children’s Home, Gay Park, New Amsterdam; the fifth former at a school in the town was granted GYD$350,000 bail and ...

President David Granger has ordered that the lease for the building known as The Red House to the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Incorporated (CJRCI) be revoked and that the occupants vacate the property by December 31, 2016, the Ministry of the Presidency announced. “Having carefully considered the advice of the Minister of Legal Affairs, President Granger has concluded that it would ...

Pushing forward with the agenda to diversify, a group of Ministers, including State Minister Joseph Harmon and Agriculture Minister Noel Holder, will meet with the Opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), and some named trade unions to discuss the way forward for Guyana’s ailing sugar industry. Diversification work has already started at the Wales Estate which ended sugar production a few ...

The Guyana government is yet to divide its duties to better serve the Diaspora, but at the same time the Foreign Ministry  should not be regarded as an employment bureau, Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge said Thursday. Reacting to claims by the Diaspora that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has failed to involve them in setting up businesses, run ministries and ...

Former People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) Prime Ministerial candidate, Ambassador Elisabeth Harper has been hired by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to assist with documentation and border matters, Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge said Thursday. He said Harper was lately retained to provide her “rather unique skills” in areas of sovereignty and documentation, at a time when the ministry had ...

Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman has signalled government’s intention to engage the mining organisations after a recent announcement that the Gold Board considered purchasing gold from small and medium-scale miners at 3% less than the world market price. Those meetings with the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO)  as well as the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) should happen ...

Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman is convinced that with the Guyana Gold Board racking up a $9B deficit at the Bank of Guyana over the last five or so years, a review of the organisation’s function is necessary which would see it transition into a gold regulator thus reducing its role as a purchaser of gold. From all indications, this ...