Last Updated on Monday, 10 July 2023, 17:12 by Denis Chabrol BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, July 10, 2023: The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) on Monday announced it has approved a US$76.2 million loan to the Government of Guyana for the Guyana Water Supply Improvement Project under which the water supply systems serving five coastal communities will undergo major upgrades. The infrastructure development ...
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Calls intensify for PNCR’s General Council to meet
Last Updated on Sunday, 9 July 2023, 22:28 by Denis Chabrol There are growing calls inside the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) for that political party to hold long-overdue meetings of its second highest decision-making body in between congresses. But party Chairman Shurwayne Holder said uncertainty about contesting the Local Government Elections was one of the major reasons for the ...
Read More »Guyana Defence Force to open aviation school for Caribbean
Last Updated on Saturday, 8 July 2023, 16:37 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will by next year establish an aviation school to train military and civilian pilots for the local and Caribbean markets, President Irfaan Ali announced on Saturday. “I have authorised work to be concluded before the third quarter of this year to have a full ...
Read More »High Court strikes down police detention of lawyer as “unconstitutional”
Last Updated on Saturday, 8 July 2023, 11:24 by Denis Chabrol The High Court has ruled that the police detention of a lawyer because she advised her client to remain silent was unconstitutional and the seizure of her cellular phone was wrongful, Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes said Saturday. Attorney-at-Law Tamieka Clarke last November sued police for in excess of GY$100,000 in ...
Read More »Guyana to boost chicken production, manufacture sausages for export
Last Updated on Friday, 7 July 2023, 19:34 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that government would be making available 25,000 acres of land in East Berbice to increase rice production for the poultry industry with the aim of increasing chicken production for stockpile and the production of sausage and nuggets. Addressing poultry producers, he said Guyana ...
Read More »Pres Ali confronts US Congressman Jeffries about refusal to meet on claims of racial discrimination
Last Updated on Friday, 7 July 2023, 19:35 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Thursday said he confronted United States Democratic Party’s top leader in the US House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries about refusing to meet with Guyana government representatives to hear their perspectives on claims of racism against Afro-Guyanese. “I sought to educate Congressman Jeffries about Guyana and ...
Read More »Poultry vaccines, foreign chicken for small farmers to cushion impact of deadly virus- Ali
Last Updated on Friday, 7 July 2023, 16:36 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that government would import and distribute free vaccines to small and medium-scale poultry farmers to help prevent wider spread of the deadly poultry virus, Inclusion Body Hepatitis (IPH). He also told hundreds of farmers at a meeting held at the Arthur Chung Conference ...
Read More »Firemen injured in raging Charity Market fire
Last Updated on Thursday, 6 July 2023, 21:29 by Denis Chabrol Two firefighters were injured Thursday night while battling a blaze at the Charity Market, Essequibo Coast, the Guyana Fire Service said. The identities of those in injured were not disclosed, but the Fire Service said an officer received a mild electrical shock and was rushed to a hospital where ...
Read More »Opposition Leader, US Secretary of State hold talks
Last Updated on Thursday, 6 July 2023, 21:05 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday held talks with United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on a number of concerns about governance, corruption and poverty and the need for electoral reforms; talks that International Relations Professor Mark Kirton hoped could lead to dialogue on major issues. Mr Norton ...
Read More »PNCR’s Bostwick says bribery allegations trumped up to exclude him from City Council
Last Updated on Thursday, 6 July 2023, 8:18 by Denis Chabrol Longtime People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member Heston Bostwick says two allegations of corrupt transactions have been concocted as part of a plot to ensure he is not picked from the list of Proportionally Representative (PR) elected persons to sit in the Georgetown City Council. “That is where the ...
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