Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 February 2019, 16:51 by Writer The Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC) has ruled unanimously against the Shipping Association of Guyana (SAG) in a price fixing case brought by a privately-owned transportation service, that regulatory agency said Tuesday. The CCAC’s decision brings to an end proceedings stemming from a 2017 complaint against SAG by businessman ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 February 2019, 20:28 by Writer As Guyana prepares its first Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) report on monies spent by 35 petroleum and mining companies and received by government, a UK-based firm that has been hired to match earnings and expenses says the companies will be asked to authorise the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 February 2019, 6:02 by Writer The US-based Carter Center has dispatched a fact-finding mission to Guyana at a time when the Government, the Opposition and their election commissioners are at a stalemate over giving the go-ahead to prepare for general elections. Earlier Monday, the Carter Center mission met with the Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield, ...

Last Updated on Monday, 11 February 2019, 20:53 by Writer Guyana is moving full steam ahead to award more oil concessions, but this time it would be done through a competitive system instead of striking one-on-one deals, Head of the Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe announced Monday. “This is likely to be a bid round” Bynoe ...

Last Updated on Monday, 11 February 2019, 16:31 by Writer The University of Guyana (UG) student, who allegedly issued bomb threats against that tertiary institution, was Monday refused bail on a charge under the Telecommunications Act. Sheliza “Dianne” Jafeerally, 25, of Cummings Lodge, Georgetown, and a Sales Consultant at Yello Media Group, pleaded not guilty to the offence that on ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 February 2019, 11:40 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s Attorney General Basil Williams has asked the Court of Appeal to keep President David Granger and his Cabinet in office until a decision is reached on whether to overturn or uphold a High Court ruling that the no-confidence motion was validly passed. Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire in January ...

Last Updated on Monday, 11 February 2019, 13:51 by Writer Guyanese police on Monday issued a wanted bulletin for a prime suspect in the stabbing death of an excavator operator at Capoey Village, Essequibo Coast. Investigators want to question Carl “Ralph” Welcome Jnr. for the murder of of Shervin Melville between 16th and 17th December, 2018. Anyone with information that may lead ...

Last Updated on Monday, 11 February 2019, 13:44 by Writer By GHK Lall There is a confirmed official report of a bomb scare was called into the University of Guyana last week. Last week Monday, it was shared that another of these troubling, definitely dangerous, scares was experienced at a city school. This is not good, whether at an educational ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 10 February 2019, 18:22 by Writer Two US-based political science professors have strongly recommended education and ethnic impact assessments to close wealth gaps among Guyana’s races, and constitutional reform to help Guyana resolve decades-old politically charged differences. However, former President Donald Ramotar of the People’s Progressive Party said Guyana has more of a class rather than ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 9 February 2019, 19:09 by Writer The international call centre, Teleperformance, is about to occupy the long vacant six-storey building at Camp and Lamaha Streets, the owner Neil Sooklall said Saturday. He told Demerara Waves Online News that he understands that the corporate offices of the France-headquartered call centre would be occupying all the flats of ...