Last Updated on Monday, 15 January 2018, 17:20 by Denis Chabrol The Special Purpose Unit (SPU) of the National Industrial & Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) on Monday announced that PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) commenced the process of the valuation of GuySuCo assets today. SPU-NICIL said PwC’s work on the GuySuCo project is expected to last eight months- that is around mid September. PwC ...

Last Updated on Monday, 15 January 2018, 19:12 by Denis Chabrol The Alliance For Change (AFC) might contest local government elections later this year, but a final decision rests with further deliberations within the party, party leader, Raphael Trotman said Monday. “There is a strong body of opinion that we should go it alone,” he told a news conference. He ...

Last Updated on Monday, 15 January 2018, 11:04 by Denis Chabrol A farmer has been detained for questioning in connection with the shooting death of two men at a village in the Pomeroon River, police said. The Guyana Police Force said the detainee is not a suspect but someone who was in the area at the time of the incident ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 14 January 2018, 21:39 by Denis Chabrol Guyana is yet to clear several hurdles before it can establish a local law school because no such approval has ever been granted by the Caribbean’s Council of Legal Education (CLE), well-placed sources said Sunday. Indications are that as far back as September, 2002 the CLE had decided to establish ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 14 January 2018, 16:15 by Denis Chabrol A City Constabulary Lance Corporal was arrested by Guyana Police Force investigators as they probe his shooting death of a detainee just outside the City Constabulary outpost near Regent and Bourda Streets Monday afternoon. Dead is Marlon Fredericks, the son of broadcast journalist and producer, Claudette Fredericks. He was ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 14 January 2018, 15:07 by Denis Chabrol A Guyana Defence Force lance corporal has been arrested in connection with a GY$5.5 million armed robbery committed last week. “He has since admitted to the commission of the crime and named an accomplice who is also been taken into custodyInvestigations are in progress,” police said. The Guyana Police ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 13 January 2018, 12:54 by Denis Chabrol The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Saturday said it was deeply disturbed by reports about the use of derogatory and repulsive language by the President of the United States, Donald Trump about  Haiti, and other developing countries. “CARICOM condemns in the strongest terms, the unenlightened views reportedly expressed,” the Guyana-based ...

Last Updated on Friday, 12 January 2018, 18:24 by Denis Chabrol The Director of the Guyana government’s Department of Public Information, Imran Khan’s claim that India deliberately excluded Guyana government Indo-Guyanese parliamentarians from participating in a conference of persons of Indian origin was Friday rejected by the government. “I have seen the article in the newspaper and what I would ...

Last Updated on Friday, 12 January 2018, 17:12 by Denis Chabrol As political and economic unrest in neighbouring Venezuela spreads, the Guyana government on Friday said it was paying keen attention to the welfare of Guyanese in the neighbouring eastern Venezuelan town of Puerto Ordaz and would be willing to help them return if the situation worsens. “If we felt ...

Last Updated on Friday, 12 January 2018, 16:07 by Denis Chabrol Minister of State, Joseph Harmon on Friday slammed the opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) for failing to propose a rescue plan for the ailing Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco), even as he said government was willing to accept a “workable” plan from other stakeholders at a time when there ...