Last Updated on Sunday, 20 October 2024, 12:08 by Writer President Irfaan Ali on Saturday announced that his administration’s Georgetown transformation plan includes improving drainage, emphasising history and culture while promoting walking and riding rather than too many vehicles in the city. “All of these sectors and segments that we see the City evolving with will support a city that ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 20 October 2024, 11:58 by Writer Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders are to hold a second symposium on widespread violent crime across the region in Guyana, shortly after holding talks with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi in Georgetown, officials said Saturday. Though Barbados’ Prime Minister, Mia Mottley did not name the visiting leader to the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 20 October 2024, 11:53 by Writer The University of Guyana (UG) on Saturday said that every effort was being made to cover its operational costs and hold the graduation of thousands of students next month. The publicly-owned tertiary education institution said since government’s announcement of free university tuition there was need to urgently address “some conditions” ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 19 October 2024, 18:49 by Writer The cockpit voice recorder of the Guyana Defence Force’s (GDF) Bell 412EPI helicopter that crashed and burnt almost one year ago in dense jungle was badly damaged, causing investigators to rely heavily on the personal accounts of the co-pilot and another survivor, well-placed sources said. “The black box was damaged,” ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 19 October 2024, 18:55 by Writer President Irfaan Ali on Friday praised the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) for attaching financial literacy as a component of direct cash transfers to the poor. Dr Ali referred to the “One Family” programme in 2023 that aimed to assist 1,000 poor households to rise out of poverty structurally by offering ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 19 October 2024, 18:40 by Writer American Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole Theriot on Friday said the United States (US) was paying attention to the swirling corruption allegations in the Guyana Police Force (GPF). “We don’t want to be providing resources and funding to an organisation that has those issues but, again, they are just allegations at ...