Last Updated on Friday, 10 August 2018, 16:34 by Denis Chabrol As a new privately-owned airline named Guyana Airways Corporation Inc. prepares to move ahead with its application to the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), the name of that company has been scratched off the Companies Register in keeping with local laws, according to well-placed sources. The Deeds and Commercial ...

Last Updated on Friday, 10 August 2018, 17:41 by Denis Chabrol The U.S. Embassy on Friday proudly announced the 2018 cohort from Guyana for the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Professional Fellows Program.  The program takes place in September and October and will bring 250 young leaders from 36 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to the ...

Last Updated on Friday, 10 August 2018, 11:52 by Denis Chabrol Guyana should not be too excited about saving a huge amount of its oil revenues in a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) because there are risks such as the loss of future value of monies, Distinguished Economics Professor Clive Thomas said. “A dollar now is worth more than a dollar ...

Last Updated on Friday, 10 August 2018, 10:55 by Denis Chabrol President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union, Mark Lyte said the long-running pay dispute with government might be headed for arbitration, even as he Friday prepared to officially inform the Ministry of Education  that teachers would embark on strike action later this month. Denying that the GTU had agreed that ...

Last Updated on Friday, 10 August 2018, 9:21 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Court of Appeal on Thursday dismissed Attorney General, Basil Williams’  request for a stay of execution of a High Court order that compels him to activate the Judicial Review Act (JRA) saying that he appeared bent on frustrating and obstructing people from accessing a wider array of ...

Last Updated on Friday, 10 August 2018, 7:32 by Denis Chabrol Skilled employees recently laid off from GUYSUCO’s closed or downsized estates were given the opportunity to turn their technical training towards employment in the mining sector, as Guyana Goldfields Inc./Aurora Gold Mines Inc.  conducted a five-day recruitment exercise recently. “The recruitment team endeavoured to secure the services of these ...