The People’s National Congress Reform-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Tuesday said it was not in favour of the Alliance For Change’s (AFC) choice for Vice Chairmanship of Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice), but AFC Chairman Cathy Hughes said her party was not budging on its principle that it should be allowed to choose its elected leaders. Mr. ...

Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony says Guyana has recorded its first case of monkeypox, and the person is hospitalised in a stable condition while health authorities conduct contact-tracing The man lives in Region Four. He says the man, who is in his 50s and is from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica),  was first suspected at the weekend and later confirmed. “We are ...

The International Decade for People of African Descent- Guyana (IDPADA-G) on Monday debunked suggestions by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo that the Board of Directors has personally received monies from the almost GY$500 million allocated by the government. Already, according to IPADA-G, the government has turned down its formal requests for $58 million in 2020 and 2021 to provide grants. “We ...

President Irfaan Ali on Monday said he has asked the Caribbean Community’s Regional Security System (RSS) to investigate the gunning down of  Ricardo “Paper Shorts” Fagundes outside Palm Court, Georgetown more than one year ago. Dr. Ali briefly made the disclosure, saying that he asked the RSS for help to conduct the probe and not only the allegations by a ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday said his People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is preparing for Local Government Elections (LGE) befire yearend, amid indications from the Guyana Elections Commission that it could be ready to hold the polls by November, 2022. “The PPP will be contesting Local Government Elections,” said Mr Jagdeo who is also the PPP’s General Secretary. He confirmed ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday announced that bids for the estimated US$700 million gas-to-shore power plant and Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) would have to be manufactured by one of two Western companies. He said bidders would have to propose using either Siemens or General Electric (GE) technologies, but he gave no reason for government deciding to limit its preferences ...

Leaders of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are impatient by the failure so far by the region’s private sector to invest in a transportation system to move mainly agricultural cargo, President Irfaan Ali said Friday. He cautioned at the opening of the 2nd Regional Agri-Investment Forum in Port-of-Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, that if CARICOM’s private sector failed ...

Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali- the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) leader who is responsible for agriculture- on Friday said the region has made “significant progress” towards the 25 percent reduction of its food imports by 2025, even as a number of member-states have submitted proposals to Republic Bank to tap into a US$100 million credit facility. Addressing the 2nd CARICOM Agri-Investment Forum ...

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday quashed the murder conviction of Jarvis Small for the murder of 16-year old Neesa Gopaul whose body was found inside a suitcase submerged in a creek on the Linden Soesdyke Highway. “In summary, the court allowed the appeal against conviction and sentence of Jarvis Small and it dismissed the appeal of Bibi ...

Just weeks after Guyana began importing Blackbelly sheep from Barbados,  the Sheep Farmers Inc. of the Barbados Agricultural Society (BAS) said it was embarking on a new project to import a breed of sheep that can be crossed with the local Blackbelly variety which is not very profitable, Barbados Today reported on Thursday. Guyana’s Agriculture Minister Zukfikar Mustapha has already ...