Last Updated on Friday, 16 September 2016, 21:01 by Denis Chabrol The European Investment Bank (EIB) will be conducting an appraisal of several projects in Guyana in the coming months as it seeks to return here for the first time in 16 years, possibly with the financing of a deepwater port that could be a springboard for the eventual construction ...

Last Updated on Friday, 16 September 2016, 20:03 by Denis Chabrol Guyana has asked the Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, to assess the feasibility of expanding the coastal fibre-optic network to include other areas of the country, even as it downplayed concerns that that company might be engaged in espionage. Head of Guyana’s E-Government Unit, Floyd Levi said the assessment would ...

Last Updated on Friday, 16 September 2016, 18:25 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government and the National Insurance Scheme on Friday inked an agreement to re-capitalise the cash-strapped social security institution , the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), which had invested in the now failed Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO). The first payment of $317,359,002.94 will be made to NIS in ...

Last Updated on Friday, 16 September 2016, 17:01 by Denis Chabrol Education Minister Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine on Friday called on teachers to stop beating students  and instead establish a counselling mechanism within the education system. Delivering remarks at the Education Month rally held at D’urban Park, Dr. Roopnaraine said that corporal punishment must be ousted from schools by “taking the stick and ...

Last Updated on Friday, 16 September 2016, 15:21 by Denis Chabrol Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson has announced that a generator set from the Onverwagt power station in West Berbice was due to arrive in Bartica on Friday, to boost power generation in the Region Seven community. The Government Information Agency (GINA) said township is set to receive improved electricity ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 15 September 2016, 20:20 by Denis Chabrol Ogle Airport Inc. on Thursday said that its lease agreement with the Guyana government only provides for a review panel, a mechanism that Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson said a legal consultant has recommended. Asked how alleged anti-competitive behaviours by the Correias at the Eugene F. Correia “Ogle” Airport ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 15 September 2016, 14:37 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government is moving to purchase a new dredge that would deepen, among other waterways, the Demerara River, Public Infrastructure Minister, David Patterson said Thursday. For several years, shipping companies and their umbrella organisation, the Shipping Association of Guyana (SAG), have been lobbying government to dredge the Demerara ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 15 September 2016, 13:57 by Denis Chabrol Slow implementation of multi-million dollar projects is dogging the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, partly because contractors are overburdened with projects and the unavailability of the required number of engineers. Public Infrastructure Minister, David Patterson said that up to August 31, 2016 GYD$11 billion of the GYD$24.28 billion set aside ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 September 2016, 21:51 by Denis Chabrol An illegal aircraft bearing what appears to be a United States (US) registration number was Wednesday discovered hidden in a clump of vegetation in southern Guyana. The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) said that on Tuesday September 13, 2016 it received information of an illegal aircraft at the Yupukari Airstrip, ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 September 2016, 17:44 by Denis Chabrol Peeved at the paltry overtime being paid and other poor working conditions, aircraft maintenance personnel at Caribbean Aviation Maintenance Systems (CAMS) on Tuesday downed tools for one day to send a signal to management. Christopher “Kit” Nascimento, spokesman for the Correia Group of Companies, which includes CAMS, told Demerara ...