The Alliance For Change (AFC) has castigated government for reducing the amount of funds to the locally established International Decade for People of African Descent- Guyana (IDPADA-G). “The AFC views this kind of politics as wholly anti-national and its consequences will create only deeper fissures within our ethnic communities which manage by and large,” the AFC said in a statement, ...

Commuters will Saturday be unable to cross the Demerara Harbour Bridge because an oil/chemical tanker smashed a section of that east-west corridor, President Irfaan Ali said. “The Demerara Harbour Bridge is rendered inoperable after a vessel, MV Tradewind Passion, collided with the bridge,” he said on his Facebook page. Dr. Ali said efforts were being made to repair the bridge ...

The Ministry of Health’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Narine Singh has instructed that persons travelling to Guyana no longer need to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, COVID-19. He told the Director-General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Retired Lt Col. Egbert Field that “the government of Guyana has taken a decision to lift the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for entry ...

A 14-year-old girl, who says a woman was taking her into a gold mining area to sell alcohol, has been rescued and handed over to the Child Care and Protection Agency. Police are treating the offence as Trafficking In Persons. The woman, who was arrested at the Bartica Ferry Stelling, also remains in custody. Police say they found almost 500 ...

A 35-year-old man of Tabatinga, Central Rupununi, has been arrested for allegedly being in possession of more than 8 kilogrammes of marijuana and more than 1 kilogramme of cocaine. Police say early Thursday morning, they intercepted the vehicle that the unemployed man was driving. Also in the vehicle were a woman and their nine-month-old son. Investigators say a search unearthed ...

Two men have been charged with robbing a Guyana Defence Force soldier of several items. Police say that among the items stolen from Private Marlon Reynolds was a motorcycle that belongs to the GDF. Those charged are 32-year-old Junior Jordan, a labourer of Non-Pariel Street, Albouystown and 18-year-old Brandon Robinson of Hunter Street, Albouystown, Georgetown. They were not required to ...

A Jamaican accreditation agency, which operates to United States Food and Drugs Administration (USFDA) standards, is offering to certify Guyana’s laboratories for food exports to that North American country, officials said late Thursday. “We are planning to have a relationship with Guyana so that as you produce more food , we provide the testing, in partnership with a Guyanese company ...

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) said the Trinidad-headquartered RAMPS Logistics (Guyana) Inc. has been slapped with 10 charges of making false customs declarations, but the company denied the allegations and stopped short of suggesting that it was retaliatory action for challenging government’s Local Content regime. GRA said after recently completed investigations carried out by its Law Enforcement and Investigations Division ...

The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) and President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday- World Teachers Day- gave different accounts of the professional development and working conditions of teachers. The union said teachers were not being recognised and paid sufficiently  for their hard work and dedication prompting many of them to proceed on early retirement. “Respect our rights by making our lives less ...

The United States (US) late Tuesday night reiterated that it recognises the land boundary between Guyana and Venezuela, on the occasion to mark the 123-year old 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian A. Nichols, under the Democrat administration,  made known his position a day after the anniversary of the decision of the tribunal. ...