President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that government would import and distribute free vaccines to small and medium-scale poultry farmers to help prevent wider spread of the deadly poultry virus, Inclusion Body Hepatitis (IPH). He also told hundreds of farmers at a meeting held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) that government was importing foreign chicken for free distribution ...

Two firefighters were injured Thursday night while battling a blaze at the Charity Market, Essequibo Coast, the Guyana Fire Service said. The identities of those in injured were not disclosed, but the Fire Service said an officer received a mild electrical shock and was rushed to a hospital where he was undergoing treatment. Another fireman was also injured at the ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday held talks with United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on a number of concerns about governance, corruption and poverty and the need for electoral reforms; talks that International Relations Professor Mark Kirton  hoped could lead to dialogue on major issues. Mr Norton said he told Mr Blinken that Guyana was virtually a one-party ...

Longtime People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member Heston Bostwick says two allegations of corrupt transactions have been concocted as part of a plot to ensure he is not picked from the list of Proportionally Representative (PR) elected persons to sit in the Georgetown City Council. “That is where the issue lies. When I learnt that I was not being selected ...

Leaders of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have decided to fully liberalise free movement of all categories of persons across the Single Market by early next year, and to amend the Treaty of Chaguaramas to guarantee them access to a limited number of services, Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley said. “Freedom of movement of people so is all. There is ...

The opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Wednesday condemned President Irfaan Ali for failing to address the plight of the 16-year old alleged victim in announcing the resignation of Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall. “We find Ali’s statement to be shameless, pathetic, callous, and unacceptable. Irfaan Ali expressed no remorse or sympathy towards ...

Hours after Guyana’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) advised police to drop a rape case against Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall, President Irfaan Ali announced that the accused has decided to resign as a minister and a parliamentarian. “Now that we have received the advice of the DPP, the Minister has asked to resign as Member of Cabinet and Member ...

The Norway-headquartered Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global watchdog against corruption in Guyana’s oil and gas, mining and quarrying, forestry, and fisheries sectors, has lifted its suspension this country after Guyana met the deadline to submit its 2020 report. “The Secretariat can confirm that Guyana published its 2020 EITI Report on 30 June 2023. Thus, the condition for lifting ...

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Tuesday indicated it had halted all investigations into a 16-year old girl’s allegation that Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall raped her at his residence last December. According to the law enforcement agency, that decision was based on advice by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) after the girl last week  gave the DPP a ...

Thirty-four persons of Amerindian descent as well as several activists of the women’s rights organisation, Red Thread, on Tuesday demanded broad-based health, legal and financial support for the 16-year old girl who alleged that she was raped by Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall. “Apolitical coordination of support for the child, with Indigenous groups and communities leading that support. Indigenous villages ...