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 ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Wednesday claimed that Mr Charandass Persaud was still functioning as Guyana’s High Commissioner to India although he was recalled earlier this month when a video surfaced of him verbally abusing a prominent Indian animal rights activist at his official residence in India, but a Foreign Ministry official denied that he was still performing the ...

Just days after the World Bank announced that it has debarred a Spanish consultant because of corrupt practice, the Guyana government on Wednesday said the man was hired by the then A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition-led administration in early 2020 and was effectively fired eight months later. The Ministry of Natural Resources said Mr. Carlos Barberán ...

by GHK Lall A cautionary note is in order as I share on traffic today. All laws and rules are dumped into the garbage can. Well, that is precisely what most Guyanese have done with them. Frequently, I am ready to say all Guyanese, so prevalent, so every day, are the departures from the rules, dismissals of them, and making ...

Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh on Tuesday lauded the New Building Society (NBS) for taking the bold step of leading the way in being the first financial institution to implement the use of Mobile Money Guyana (MMG) for mortgage payments. The Minister was at the time speaking at the launch ceremony held at the NBS Head Office on Avenue of ...