The Guyana Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (GCCAC) is being challenged to go after rogue businesses rather than only focusing largely on consumer protection, according to the Chairman of the Trade and Investment Committee of Guyana’s Private Sector Commission (PSC) Ramesh Dookhoo. “I heard very little of competition activities by the CCAC. There are a lot of rogue businesses out ...

Three workers of the Demerara Harbour Bridge have been sent on leave pending an investigation into how a Panama-registered oil tanker, MV Tradewind Passion, left Guyana without any record after the High Court ordered its release based on a GY$247 million Letter of Undertaking in connection with serious damage to that east-west corridor. The Public Works Ministry has calculated the ...

A privately-owned healthcare institution, Royalty Home-Care and Private Nurse Services, has expanded its operations and is now training patient care assistants at its Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo  headquarters. Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Royalty Home-Care and Private Nurse Services, Nurse Alicia Solomon, who is also studying to become a medical doctor, said the institution has been properly registered. She ...

Belize’s overhaul of its administration of justice has now paved the way for prominent Caribbean jurist, Louise Blenman to become that Central American nation’s first Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal. Her additional scope of responsibility comes just over two months after she was sworn in as Belize’s Chief Justice of the High Court. Chief Justice Blenman was sworn ...

The opposition Alliance For Change has accused the Irfaan Ali-led administration of refusing to summon meetings of parliamentary sectoral committee on natural resources to subject ministers and officials to scrutiny. “We wanted to get the natural resources parliamentary sectoral committee to start functioning. What we understand is that the PPP does not want that parliamentary sector committee to function because ...

Minister of Local Government Nigel Dharamlall on Friday said government has decided to revert to the 2016 local district boundaries and widen others to ensure  greater representation of Guyanese at the March 13, 2023 Local Government Elections. He said 14 local authorities had been changed by the then A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) administration for the 2018 ...

Guyana has selected the United Kingdom-based BP International out of a total of 14 companies  to market the country’s share of crude oil from the Liza 1 and Liza 11 offshore fields, the Ministry of Natural Resources announced Thursday night. Under the Production Sharing Agreement, Guyana is entitled to 50 percent of the profit oil share- that is 12.5 percent ...

The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) on Thursday begged government for an increase in salaries, even as it welcomed an increase in the minimum salaries for police, fire fighters and soldiers. Reacting to President Irfaan Ali’s announced upward adjustment of salary scales for those Disciplined Services, the GTU said the police and fire service officers have every right to be elated ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced that 8,000 members of the Guyana Police Force, Guyana Fire Service and the Guyana Defence Force will now get higher salaries as a result of the increase in their minimum salaries. No increase was mentioned for Guyana Prison Service personnel. Also, there was no increase for senior officers of the Guyana Defence Force. Dr ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton and Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan are among several prominent politicians, trade unionists and community activists in Guyana and the Diaspora who are calling for an international mediation to address alleged discrimination against African Guyanese and opponents of the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP). “We, the undersigned, hereby call on the United ...