Last Updated on Thursday, 18 January 2024, 19:43 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government has been using 900,000 persons as a working estimate of the country’s population, against the backdrop of the national census picking up a lesser count, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday. “This is an internal estimate and this is my internal estimate based on the number ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 18 January 2024, 18:51 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government would be seeking an official explanation from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) about what is going on at that Barbados-headquartered financial institution after news surfaced that a number of officials were sent on leave, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday. “We’re going to try to find ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 18 January 2024, 18:27 by Denis Chabrol Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said government was talking with the United States (US)-headquartered aviation company, Bell, to buy four helicopters for the Guyana Police Force and Guyana Defence Force as part of moves to boost the country’s defence capacity. “The army recapitalisation is a significant part of ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 18 January 2024, 1:27 by Denis Chabrol Even as Guyana’s private sector is welcoming the GY$1.1 trillion dollar national budget, University of Guyana Economist Dr Thomas Singh sees the need for long term planning to guarantee growth while saving. While governments prefer to deliver annual programmes, he argued that Guyana could not achieve sustained economic growth ...