Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 August 2024, 7:41 by Writer The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Tuesday – at separate events to mark the 39th death anniversary of its founder-leader, Forbes Burnham – indicated a willingness to patch up pre-congress differences to unitedly campaign and contest next year’s general and regional elections. Chairman of the PNCR’s Council of Elders, ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 August 2024, 21:15 by Writer At least 2,000 persons can now benefit from a new health centre that has been built in the far-flung Mahaica Creek community of District Number 10, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony said. He said the health centre was constructed at a cost of GY$46 million on a plot of land ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 August 2024, 20:35 by Writer Prospective hemp cultivators would soon get the opportunity to apply for licences to do so, as Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha on Tuesday said the Industrial Hemp Regulatory Authority would be appointed in the coming weeks. He said the names of the intended board members would be taken to Cabinet ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 August 2024, 20:31 by Writer Small rice farmers will be provided drone services by the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) to assist them in increasing and improving the quality of the grain, through assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and China, officials said Tuesday. Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha said the drone service would ...

Last Updated on Monday, 5 August 2024, 22:29 by Writer More than one year after Guyana passed the Industrial Hemp Act, players in the infant sector are hopeful that a licensing board would soon be appointed to regulate the industry and make way for large-scale commercial cultivation. The Industrial Hemp Bill was approved by the National Assembly on August 8, ...

Last Updated on Monday, 5 August 2024, 21:15 by Writer Guyana is prepared to test for the Oropouche virus (OROV) which the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) last weekend sounded an alert about, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony said Monday. He said the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) has the reagents to test for the virus which can be spread by ...

Last Updated on Monday, 5 August 2024, 21:00 by Writer By: Dr. Vivian M. Williams It was a few dreadful months ago that Guyana, one of the world’s recently minted petro-states, was desperately scrambling to mobilize the international community to avert war with Venezuela. The conflict heightened the risk of instability in the Caribbean and Latin America over a decades-old ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 4 August 2024, 19:07 by Writer by Alexandra Panzarelli In 1989, excluded Venezuelans took to the streets to condemn a political class that was leaving them behind. It was a bloody encounter between the people and the repressive state that marked a deep fracture with representative democracy in Venezuela. This moment highlighted the consequences of social ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 15:23 by Writer Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus I couldn’t help but notice how the WPA literally inserted itself between the PNC and AFC at the Buxton line-top on Emancipation Day. While the photographer who took the shot of Norton and Hughes with the WPA must be given credit, one must wonder why ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 4 August 2024, 15:18 by Writer by GHK Lall The battlelines are drawn, and they have all that is ominous about them. Russia, China, and Persia (Iran) came out of the blocks first. The Venezuelan election was transparent, the man won another term of office. Fair and square. Free and fair and transparent. Normally, it would ...