The Ministry of Agriculture said approximately 2:00 am on Thursday the sluice door at Providence developed a breach resulting in flooding in parts of the area. More than 200 households in Providence and Peter’s Hall are reportedly affected by flooding, with the lower flats of these houses being inundated with river water. After learning of the incident, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar ...

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who last visited Guyana in 1994, died on Thursday. She was 96 years old. The Queen reigned for 70 years. The Queen last visited this former British colony in  February 1994. Then, she had visited several places of interest including Santa Mission and Timberhead. The Queen had also addressed a special sitting of the National Assembly ...

President Irfaan Ali said the Guyana National Population and Housing Census is expected to guide government’s policy on, among other matters, the handling migrants. Addressing the formal launch of the countrywide exercise which is scheduled to start on September 15, he indicated if the socio-economic and political crisis continues in  neighbouring Venezuela, nationals of that country may eventually opt to ...

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said representatives of Guyana and Suriname are scheduled to meet in the coming weeks to iron out that Dutch-speaking neighbour’s failure so far to keep its reported promise to grant 150 coastal fishing licences to Guyanese fishermen. But already, the Guyanese leader has admitted that the major sticking point has to do with the illegal ...

Central government is preparing to rush emergency aid to residents of Dazzell and Bareroot, East Coast Demerara whose houses were severely damaged by a freak storm on Monday,  Housing Minister Susan Rodrigues said Tuesday. She explained that as soon as the Civil Defence Commission compiles and dispatches a report of its assessment of the impact of the storm, government will ...

General Secretary of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Geeta Chandan-Edmond is on leave but she on Tuesday down-played experiencing personal difficulties as the major reason for deciding to proceed on vacation. There is no indication of when she will resume office, as she has since requested an extension without stating the date. Ms Hazel Pyle-Lewis is said to be ...

Although Suriname has already said that the granting of fishing licences to Guyanese would be illegal, the Guyana government on Monday condemned Suriname’s harassment of Guyanese fisherfolk in the waters of that neighbouring country and lamented the apparent slothfulness in  sticking to an agreement to grant fishing boat licences to Guyanese. “The Government of Guyana condemns, in its strongest possible ...

The Office of the President Monday afternoon rejected the claims by the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) that millions of dollars have been spent by several agencies under that office. Permanent Secretary of the Office of the President, Abena Moore says none of the monies allocated so far to the President’s Youth Advisory Council has been ...

A freak storm on Monday damaged several houses at Bareroot,  East Coast Demerara, according to to the Director-General of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), Nazrul Hussain. He said a team of CDC officers have been dispatched to the area to conduct an assessment, but so far that agency has been informed that “six or so houses have been affected by ...

The opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) has retaliated at government’s move to ask for details about how the government-funded International Decade for People of African Descent- Guyana (IDPADA-G) has spent an estimated GY$500 million over the past four years. Randolph Critchlow, who co-chaired a public meeting at Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara, questioned how ...