Public Works Minister Juan Edghill at the weekend announced that a well-known promoter has been virtually banned from hiring Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) ferries for cruise parties. Addressing the formal launch of the Online booking system, Ferry Pass, Mr Edghill said the promoter flouted the conditions under which he contracted the vessel to host the cruise. “We had a ...

Veteran People’s Progressive Party (PPP) member, Philomena Sahoye-Shury died on Sunday, her party confirmed. General Secretary of the PPP, Bharrat Jagdeo said, “on behalf of myself and the People’s Progressive Party, I wish to extended deepest condolences to the relatives and friends of Cde Philomena Sahoye-Shury following her passing.” Her party issued a similar statement following the death of Ms ...

Guyana’s first online ferry booking system will help the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) to decide whether to postpone trips with few bookings as well as weed out corruption by staff who facilitate priority vehicle crossings, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said Saturday. “We have to stop the corruption. We have to stop the occasion for corruption and often times ...

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh on Saturday announced that motorists will from Sunday pay 20 percent less for gasoline and 15 percent less for diesel. While government’s decision is only for fuels being sold by the state-owned Guyana Oil Company (GUYOIL), eventually other suppliers may reduce their prices. In a statement issued Saturday night, the Finance Minister said gasoline price ...

Five persons were injured early Saturday morning in a collision between a car and a lorry on the Winifred Gaskin Public Road, Half Mile Wismar, Linden, the Guyana Police Force said. Police said the accident occurred at about 3:54 AM in the vicinity of New Silver City Secondary School where the car, bearing licence number PMM 2777, owned by Martin ...

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Friday accused the government of attempting to silence New York-based Guyanese political activist Rickford Burke with trumped up allegations of extortion. “The PPP (People’s Progressive Party) , therefore, is waging a campaign to silence him through acts of harassment, intimidation, and character assassination,” the APNU+AFC said in a statement. ...

The Beterverwagting -Triumph Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) on Friday vowed to ensure that 143. 10 acres of lands aback the East Coast Demerara village of Beterverwagting (BV) are not lost to a private company they believe is fronting for John Fernandes Limited (JFL) that has since publicly abandoned interest in the acreage. The NDC Chairman, Jummaul Bagot said the council ...

High Court Judge Navindra Singh on Friday ordered the Guyana Public Service Cooperative Credit Union Limited  to hold a special members meeting by October 24, 2022 and pay GY$100,000 in cost. Justice Singh granted the orders that were sought by Mehalai Mc Almont, Keith Marks and Natasha Duran. Attorney-at-Law Roysdale Forde, who represented the applicants, said the judge found that ...

by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Food. It is grown, harvested, processed, packaged, transported, distributed, traded, bought, prepared and then… thrown out. Each year, approximately 14 percent of the food we produce is lost between when it is harvested and before it reaches the shops. A further 17 percent of our food ends up being wasted by ...

Well-known New York-based Guyanese political activist, Rickford Burke is wanted by Guyanese police for questioning about his alleged role in the publication of defamatory libel in order to extort money, according to a bulletin issued late Thursday hours after he released a statement and a recording of part of a conversation purportedly with a businessman. Police said Mr Burke allegedly ...