The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Wednesday officially launched the Caribbean Agricultural Productivity Improvement Activity (CAPA), a programme that aims at increasing food security efforts, while strengthening the livelihoods of farmers locally. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was also signed by UG’s Vice Chancellor, and Improving Economies for Stronger Communities (IESC) CAPA’s Programme Director, Sandford Edwards, to ...

The Foreign Ministers of  Guyana and Venezuela would be meeting in Brazil on Thursday in keeping with an accord reached in St Vincent a month ago between President Irfaan Ali and his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro. “The meeting is a very important step in fulfilling what we agreed on in St Vincent and that was the establishment of this commission ...

Just under a dozen Afro-Guyanese organisations have deemed President Irfaan Ali a “racist” in its quest to convince the the Ghana-headquartered African Prosperity Network (APN) to rescind the “Global Africa Leadership Award” President Irfaan Ali, but the Guyanese leader on Wednesday lashed back at critics, denying that his administration has been discriminating against Afro-Guyanese. “For APN to bestow an award ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus The $1.146 trillion budget presented by Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance, is testimony to President Ali’s commitment to broaden, deepen, and quicken the pace of economic and social development in Guyana. Anyone who has listened to Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali since he took office in August 2020 ...

Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat on Tuesday said he was very confident that Guyana would recover from a seven-year decline in gold production with new the discovery of deposits by several foreign exploration companies, even as preparations have started for a more than GY$400 million mineral survey this year to assist in efficient allocation of gold bearing areas. Mr ...

-Fire Service to acquire new vehicles Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Tuesday said the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) was not to be blamed for the low level of fire safety at the Mahdia Secondary School dormitories where 20 children were burnt to death last May. “I want to say, not simply in defence of the Guyana Fire Service, that ...

Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan on Tuesday warned the government that if does not pay public servants and pensioners more, government risked enriching a small group of contractors with billions of dollars which would widen the gap between the rich and the poor. “We are going to create a caste system in this country whereby the ...

The opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Monday decried the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration’s  refusal to fund the University of Guyana (UG) adequately. During day one of debate on the 2024 National Budget, Education Minister Priya Manickchand sought to assure Guyanese that the publicly-funded tertiary institution would continue to receive monies from ...

Nine years after the David Granger-led A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) administration had increased ministers’ salaries, that coalition on Monday said People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) ministers were now taking home almost GY$2 million per month in salaries and allowances. “Since 2021 the PPP/C has augmented what was previously dubbed a ‘fat cat salary’ with an additional ...

Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha on Monday filed a GY$5 million libel lawsuit against Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton in connection with a number of posts on Facebook about chicken smuggling. That amount could be more if the High Court yields to Mr Mustapha’s request for exemplary and/or aggravated damages to be awarded. The Minister also wants the High Court to ...