President Irfaan Ali on Thursday said the United States (US) would be assisting Guyana in jointly assessing its hydro-electricity generation capacity. He told the opening of a Latin America and Caribbean meeting of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) that is one of the outcomes of his recent one-week visit to Washington DC where he held talks with the US Department ...

Three porters died on the Kuru Kuru, Soesdyke/Linden Highway late Wednesday night when the driver lost control of a lorry and it toppled several times, police said Thursday. Those, who perished, are Michael Edwards of Timehri Base Road, East Bank Demerara, Wilfred Phillips and Aloysius Squad both of Pomeroon River, Essequibo. The accident occurred at about 11:30 Wednesday night. The ...

The parliamentary opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Tuesday night threw down the gauntlet at the two-year-old Irfaan Ali-led administration, signaling that they would block the holding of future elections with what they regard as a padded voters list and pressure the government to address 0ther concerns. “We are organising to ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday night vowed to continue refusing to shake President Irfaan Ali’s hands, alleging that his administration was responsible for discriminatory access to lands, extra judicial killings and unequal access to Guyana’s wealth. A day after he ignored Dr Ali’s outstretched hand at the Emancipation Day celebration in New Amsterdam, Mr Norton defended his decision. “I ...

President Irfaan Ali on Sunday pledged his readiness to talk with any Guyanese to discuss their concerns but cautioned that he would not wait indefinitely,  even as Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton ruled out talks with the government unless there is evident equitable distribution of wealth. Alluding to the United States government citing the need for inclusiveness during Dr Ali’s week-long ...

African Guyanese were Sunday night- Emancipation Day Eve- urged to agitate for a national conversation on the distribution of Guyana’s oil wealth. Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes and Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Executive Member David Hinds issued stirring appeals in speeches at the “Buxton Black is Beautiful Emancipation Cultural Programme”. Mr Hughes recommended that an analysis be conducted to ascertain how much ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Sunday denied that the meetings to which the United States (US) government invited him and President Irfaan Ali were triggered by opposition concerns about the way Guyana was being run, but instead about  America’s importance to Guyana’s national interest. “The key issue here was looking out for national interest and the national interest of Guyana ...

As the sod was turned to construct a €$149million (more than US$150 million) paediatric and maternal hospital, the Guyana government on Sunday announced that contractors would have to abide by new internationally recognised contract terms that would see them bearing the bulk of the responsibilities for the design and build infrastructure model. The hospital, which would be built on 10 ...

President Irfaan Ali on Sunday dismissed a recent suggestion that the United States (US) and other Western Nations were pumping money into Latin America and the Caribbean to only dislodge China rather than help the region as that Asian nation has been doing in Developing Nations. “(I) saw some headline about this relationship and I went there and the US ...

President Irfaan Ali on Sunday lashed out at United States (US) Congressman Hakeem Jeffries who apparently refused to meet with him during last week’s visit to Washington DC. Dr Ali said he asked the Foreign Ministry and Guyana’s Ambassador to the US Samuel Hinds to write Mr Jeffries to formally invite him to a meeting. “He has not responded,” the ...