Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh on Friday announced that a Universality Fund will be established to facilitate telecommunication services to poor and hinterland communities. Delivering the 2021 National Budget, he said monies from telecommunication providers would see the injection of GYD$360 million dollars to the fund. The Universality Fund is catered for in the telecoms liberalisation process to ensure areas ...

by GHK Lall I share a couple thoughts on President Ali’s inaugural address to the National Assembly.  I am trying to give Guyana’s Head of State a free head to run wherever he wishes, while I wait to see the substances behind his many promises.  I say that he is long on promise, with what follows speaking for itself. First, ...

The Venezuelan Navy that escorted the two Guyanese fishing vessels that had been recently detained for almost two weeks stayed out Guyanese waters, a top Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officer said Thursday. “Interestingly enough, what we took note of is that when the vessel returned, the escort- because they were escorted by a Venezuelan Naval vessel- they stopped at the ...

A draft law is to be tabled in the parliament to establish a Border Patrol Unit to secure Guyana’s Borders. President Ali also told government parliamentarians, who were the only members present, t during his inaugural address to the Parliament,  that the aim is strengthen Guyana’s security.  “We’ll also be strengthening our ability to secure our borders with establishment of ...

President Irfaan Ali  Thursday afternoon announced plans to engage Guyanese more in nation-building, address concerns and reach consensus. Addressing the Parliament for the first time since taking office last August following general elections in March, he announced that a new law will be passed to set up a One Guyana Commission to address concerns. The President says the Commission will ...

Guyana on Thursday began rolling out  COVID-19 vaccination, targeting some 22,000 frontline health care workers in the government and private health sector with the first doses administered at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Health Minister  Dr. Frank Anthony hoped that all frontline healthcare workers would be vaccinated before the end off the first quarter of 2021. “By the end ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday said no foreign military bases would be established in Guyana unless requested and that Guyana would independently decide who are its friends. “Guyana will be no pawn or puppet of any foreign power. No foreign power will establish a presence that we,  we Guyana and the Guyana Defence Force do not request but we’ll exercise ...

Former Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Retired Rear Admiral, Mr. Gary Best was Wednesday freed on a driving under the influence charge by Magistrate Mr. Clive Nurse presiding at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Magistrate Mr. Nurse upheld the no-case submissions made by Best’s lawyers, Mr. Nigel Hughes and Associates. The Magistrate said that the prosecution failed to established ...

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Wednesday accused Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo of hatching a plan to put People’s Progressive Party (PPP) supporters at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to rig the elections. “They want to dismantle the Elections Commission and put in its place their own cronies that can carry out their instructions  so you will never again have free ...

The sister Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nation, Barbados, on Wednesday donated a quantity of COVID-19 vaccines to Guyana for front-line workers, government announced. President Irfaan Ali  thanked Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley for the  1,500 doses of the vaccines; 100 of which will be for staff of the Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) headquarters. He said the remaining 1,400 doses “will go ...