Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 December 2017, 23:15 by Denis Chabrol Small business development is next year set to receive a GY$148 million boost to help them set up shop and provide services to large companies, Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin announced. The government’s Department of Public Information said in 2018, the Small Business Bureau (SBB) intends to register companies ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 December 2017, 19:15 by Denis Chabrol Opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) parliamentarian, Gail Teixeira lampooned the David Granger-led coalition administration for alleged racial discrimination by replacing many Indo-Guyanese with Afro-Guyanese. “Only conclusion can be a State-instituted ethnic political discrimination exclusion,” she told the House on Day 3 of Guyana’s  2018 National Budget Debate. Teixeira ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 December 2017, 18:12 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Carl Greenidge on Wednesday sought to preempt any opposition criticisms of a lot of overseas trips, saying that government could not allow “penny-pinching” as it seeks to resolve the border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela. “Negotiating in these circumstances is an expensive business,” he said, ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 December 2017, 17:06 by Denis Chabrol Two days after fire destroyed all the belongings of a a Linden secondary school student who has been preparing for CXC examinations, he on Wednesday received a much-needed computer to help him continue preparations. Mark Miggins, 17, was  presented the computer by the Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara-based privately-owned ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 December 2017, 16:42 by Denis Chabrol A man, who recently returned from the United States (US), was Wednesday charged with the murder of Richard Ishmael Secondary School teacher, Kescia Branche. Matthew Munroe was not required to plea to the indictable charge when he appeared before Chief Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan. He was remanded until January ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 December 2017, 13:28 by Denis Chabrol Top military officers from across the Caribbean, North America and Europe are meeting in Guyana to, among other things, hammer out a strategy to address threats by trans-national extremist groups. Sponsored annually by the United States (US) Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), this year’s Caribbean Nations Security Conference (CANSEC) is being ...