Last Updated on Saturday, 12 November 2022, 12:42 by Writer Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Friday ordered the Ministry of Natural Resources’ Local Content Secretariat to issue a Local Content Certificate to the RAMPS Logistics (Guyana) Limited whose parent company is headquartered in Trinidad & Tobago. She ordered the Director of the Local Content Secretariat Martin Pertab to properly fulfill ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 12 November 2022, 12:19 by Writer Even as President Irfaan Ali on Friday bashed the private sector for failing to take advantage of foreign investment opportunities from Saudi Arabia and South Korea, he announced that government was willing to help write business plans and negotiate with commercial banks for low interest loans. “I am ready, as ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 November 2022, 16:02 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced that the American-owned energy company, LINDSAYCA in a joint venture with CH4 Guyana, has been selected to forge ahead with negotiations to build an almost US$1 billion natural gas-fired electricity plant and natural gas liquids plant at Wales, West Bank Demerara. He said ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 19:27 by Denis Chabrol In the wake of a fracas between Public Service Minister Sonia Parag and 2nd Vice Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) at Belladrum, West Coast Berbice, President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said his government was determined to ensure that race was not used to mobilise supporters across ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 18:13 by Denis Chabrol The United States is urging Guyana to be more inclusive at a faster pace and to go beyond cash grants by focussing on long term growth for all nationals of this oil-rich South American nation. “It is an ethnically divided society and s0 they will need to focus on ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 13:12 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) Chief Security Officer Ronald Stuart on Wednesday said after then Deputy Chief Election Officer Roxane Myers failed in her effort to get him to order several persons to vacate the tabulation room to allow Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo to do his work, ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 10:06 by Denis Chabrol By GHK Lall Some things are so beyond the pale that they can never be acceptable.  What Exxon’s Country Head stated at Leonora about the “right government” (KN November 9) is off the wall and out of bounds.  Mr. Routledge is not only out of line; I will make ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 7:20 by Denis Chabrol Dominica’s opposition United Workers Party (UWP) has decided not to participate in the December 6 general election because of concerns that the voters list is padded. That party says Dominicans cannot be asked at this time to participate in another national election without meeting at least two basic election ...

Last Updated on Monday, 7 November 2022, 19:29 by Denis Chabrol Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira on Monday dismissed Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton’s persistent concerns about a bloated voters list, saying that he is using a 10-year old low national census figure to make a comparison and the opposition has so far failed to propose any amendments ...

Last Updated on Monday, 7 November 2022, 13:19 by Denis Chabrol Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Monday sought to assure Guyanese that government would not control the 20-member broad-based Constitutional Reform Commission and process geared at modifying the already amended supreme law of this country. “Government will not attempt, in any form or fashion, to influence the work of the ...