Last Updated on Friday, 23 March 2018, 9:07 by Denis Chabrol Even as the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) boasts of reducing its deficit and investing a huge amount of cash to strengthen the security of its database and allow miners to register with that regulatory agency on the phone, gold miners were Thursday up in arms over the board’s decision ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 22 March 2018, 22:04 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Gold Board has hired experts from Trinidad and Tobago to confirm what the University of Guyana (UG) has already told that regulatory agency- that mercury emissions no longer pose a risk to people in the area, Gold Board Chairman, Gabriel Lall said Friday. “We have moved very ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 22 March 2018, 21:31 by Denis Chabrol Residents of Kwakwani are now benefiting from improved electricity supply as a result of the installation of two new generating sets by the Kwakwani Utilities Inc. (KUI), the  Ministry of Public Infrastructure said Thursday afternoon. A ceremony commissioning the two new 260 kilowatt generators was held at the Power ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 22 March 2018, 11:36 by Denis Chabrol Government Pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh on Thursday said proper procedures might not have been followed in removing the burnt remains of the eight miners at Lindo Creek in 2008, and he also said he refused to observe the autopsies that were conducted by a Jamaican team that had been ...