Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, Amanza Walton-Desir on Monday discarded the 2024 National Budget minutes after Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh delivered the GY$1.1 trillion package of expenditures. “It met my expectations of the PPP (People’s Progressive Party) government and that is absolutely nothing of substance for working class Guyanese,” she told reporters. Old Age ...

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 of Guyana. On condition these graduates can demonstrate proof of being ...

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 were in several large bags at a house at Hubu occupied ...

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 Maryam Bacchus, who has been described as having a “passion for ...

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 Leader, Aubrey Norton has produced a wish-list for the 2024 National ...

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 procuring entity, asked businesses to say how they would design, finance, ...

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 to do with numbers, charts, graphs, or footnotes.  It had everything ...

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 call for a Third Force is deeply problematic. Allow me to ...

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: Following the PNCR and Opposition Leader, Mr Aubrey Norton’s explanation for ...

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 US$1.002 billion in 2023 from the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) based ...