Last Updated on Monday, 15 January 2024, 20:51 by Denis Chabrol Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh 0n Monday announced in the GY$1.1 trillion National Budget that government would begin phasing in free university education only if borrowers could prove they were employed in Guyana. “We will commence the first phase of eliminating outstanding loans offered by graduates of the University ...

Last Updated on Monday, 15 January 2024, 12:07 by Denis Chabrol A man and a woman were Monday arrested by agents of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) in connection with the discovery and seizure of GY$20 million worth of marijuana at Block 1, Unity, Hubu, Parika, East Bank Essequibo. CANU said the 102 “brick-like parcels” of marijuana weighing 55.2 kilogrammes ...

Last Updated on Monday, 15 January 2024, 11:24 by Denis Chabrol A new digital platform, Litta Reporta, was launched at the weekend to assist authorities at the local and national levels, but the major problem is still expected to be collection of waste although authorities would be aware of the locations. The app was developed by Software Developer, 20-year old ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 14 January 2024, 13:42 by Denis Chabrol Ahead of Monday’s presentation of Guyana’s 2024 budget, the government and opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) are citing the need for money in ordinary’s people’s pockets to grapple with spiralling cost of living and narrowing the gap between the rich and poor. Opposition ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 14 January 2024, 11:54 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government is calling for private sector investors to propose how they can construct  a centralised gas connection, storage and transport facility for all natural gas accessed and produced by all oil companies operating in Guyana. In its Request for Proposals, the Ministry of Natural Resources, as the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 14 January 2024, 8:12 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall It took a development that came out of the belly of Guyana’s Opposition to open my eyes, help connect the dots.  Numerous things were wrong, suspect, flawed with the management of this great oil endowment, but somehow, I didn’t strike the nail square.  It has nothing ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 14 January 2024, 8:04 by Denis Chabrol By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus I read Tony Vieira’s letter calling for a Third Force several times. I give Mr. Vieira full credit for not reducing Guyana’s politics, and especially its voting behavior, to that most predictable of the lazy scholar’s last resort, namely race. That said, Vieira’s ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 13 January 2024, 20:22 by Denis Chabrol Attention was on Saturday, 13th January, 2024 drawn to the posting of an utterance titled “Setting the record straight: I was caught off guard in Denis Chabrol’s scheming tactics” in the name of opposition APNU+AFC parliamentarian, Jermaine Figueira on Village Voice. The fact of the matter is as follows: ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 13 January 2024, 10:43 by Denis Chabrol Guyana has saved just over US$800 million from more than US$3 billion in oil revenues since production began in 2020, even as the country is set to sell 27 entitled lifts this year now that production has begun at the Payara project, officials said. After government’s total withdrawals of ...

Last Updated on Friday, 12 January 2024, 22:12 by Denis Chabrol The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Friday said it proposed a motion for the bipartisan parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to be empowered to summon former officials to appear before that body that questions the spending of monies from the coffers based on observations from the Auditor General’s reports. ...