Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday refuted claims by the parliamentary opposition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) that large numbers of Venezuelans were being registered to vote in future general and regional elections. He provided figures to bolster his position that the registration trend and population density were similar to those in previous years. According to ...

by GHK Lall To ringfence or not to ringfence, is now more than the question.  It has risen to the incendiary issue of the hour.  Two men of majestic proportions, Dr. Bharat Jagdeo and Alistair Routledge, have announced and pronounced on ringfencing pros and cons, and in the end, it is not what Jagdeo could do for Guyana, but what ...

by Donald Ramotar, former President of Guyana On October 19, 1983, the Grenada Revolution, which was victorious on March 13, 1979, suffered a very fatal blow. It’s principal leader, Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and five other very prominent leaders of the New Jewel Movement (NJM) and the Grenadian Government, were executed. The others were Noris and Fitzroy Bain, Jacqueline Creft, ...

Guyana’s premier Energy Conference and Expo returns for its third installment in 2024, rebranded as Guyana Energy Conference and Supply Chain Expo, and projected to attract a larger number of participants, the event’s secretariat said Thursday. The Secretariat, along with its partners, said participants would include keynote speakers, policymakers, local and international industry experts. With over 1,200 attendees, 60 international ...

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a US$90 million loan to contribute to human capital development in Guyana, the hemispheric bank said Wednesday. The loan approved by the IDB’s Board of Executive Directors is designed to expand access to safe and improved learning environments and enhance educational services for vulnerable students in Guyana. This is the first individual operation of ...

Eight 9 MM handguns and five bulky bags of marijuana were Wednesday afternoon discovered in a barrel by Customs officers at the La Parkan Shipping bond, Cheddi Jagan International Airport. The barrel was shipped by someone who gave an address in Bronx, New York and was consigned to a relative in New Amsterdam, Berbice. The weight of the drugs has ...

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday announced a CDN$3.4 million initiative to provide equipment and assistance to improve the security situation in Haiti, at the Canada-Caribbean Community (CARICOM) summit being held in Ottawa. He said the aid is to “fight weapons-related violence.”  He added that Canada would launch a multi-year training programme to assist Haiti’s National Police Force to ...

Opposition Shadow Local Government Minister, Ganesh Mahipaul and Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha on Wednesday were at loggerheads 0ver the claims by that APNU+AFC parliamentarian that the termination of a contract to build an irrigation pump at Black Bush Polder would result in a loss of more than GY$38 million. But Mr Mustapha countered saying that his ministry’s National Drainage ...

As Venezuela deployed 150 soldiers near their border with Guyana, Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd asked the Venezuelan Ambassador to Guyana to explain the movement of troops near the border between the two countries that are embroiled in a territorial controversy. The Foreign Affairs Ministry said though the Venezuelan Ambassador, Carlos Amador Pérez Silva claimed that the mobilisation of troops ...

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Wednesday definitively ruled out any possibility of the US$214 million in disputed audited costs for expenses incurred from 1999 to 2017 being changed, leaving the door open now for the company to move to arbitration.  “The Authority wishes to categorically re-iterate that it stands by its advice to the Ministry of Natural Resources and ...