Last Updated on Sunday, 6 March 2022, 15:12 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Sunday appeared to hinge any  chance of power sharing  to the opposition agreeing to free and fair elections, just days after People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Leader Aubrey Norton pegged it to a clean voters list. Against the background of  a United States Agency for ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 6 March 2022, 14:19 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Sunday announced that he plans to meet with marijuana farmers to encourage them to get into the cultivation of high-value hemp. ” I intend to have a meeting very soon with all the marijuana growers in this country. I intend to have a meeting and ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 5 March 2022, 12:30 by Denis Chabrol Mr. Joseph Harmon has resigned as a parliamentarian for A Partnership for National Unity++Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC),  well-placed sources confirmed on Saturday. The resignation  was submitted to House Speaker Manzoor Nadir and a copy was provided to Representative of the APNU+AFC  list of candidates, David Granger. “I have given ...

Last Updated on Friday, 4 March 2022, 7:59 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall I had no doubts before.  All Guyanese should now have enough to see the light, as how the leaders in the PPPC Government intend to, are bent on, governing this bitter and boiling below the surface country.  It is that whenever the PPPC Government sets its ...

Last Updated on Friday, 4 March 2022, 7:41 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali has recommended that the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Central American Integration System (SICA) combine their efforts to maximise food production in the region. He also proposed a joint meeting between the Central American Agricultural Council and CARICOM’s  Agricultural Ministerial Task Force “so that we ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 3 March 2022, 23:47 by Denis Chabrol The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said a 45-year old man of North East La Penitence was arrested Wednesday during an operation on West Coast Demerara and East Bank Essequibo, In custody is Ian Griffith because, according to the anti-drug agency, he had 2.330 kilogrammes of cocaine in his possession, ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 3 March 2022, 23:35 by Denis Chabrol ExxonMobil plans to drill 20 additional exploration wells offshore Guyana, as the company gathers more seismic data from other discoveries and plans to link oil producing vessels to nearby wells in order to guarantee a steady flow of crude, the company’s  Senior Vice President Neil Chapman said. Speaking during ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 3 March 2022, 22:12 by Denis Chabrol The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Wednesday slammed the Irfaan Ali-led administration for shutting out the opposition from the Natural Resource Fund’s (NRF) Board, dashing hopes of keeping an eye on how the ‘oil money’ would be spent. “By these actions, the PPP has shown again its total ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 March 2022, 22:15 by Denis Chabrol In the wake of concerns by the Caribbean Private Sector Organisation (CPSO) about whether Guyana’s local content legislation is breaching Caribbean Community (CARICOM) single market rules, regional leaders have agreed to consider what should the amount of local content and over what period, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 March 2022, 16:54 by Denis Chabrol The United States says two Guyanese have been extradited to that North American country face the court on sexual offence and related charges. “The extradition of the two fugitives strengthens the rule of law in Guyana and reflects the strong professional law enforcement and judicial cooperation between the United ...