The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Monday called on government to prove that a study has been conducted to determine whether the construction of a new Berbice River bridge would be feasible, and if there would be any legal risk involving the existing Berbice Bridge Company. The AFC also wants an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) conducted before the ...

Britain’s Trade Commissioner for Latin America and the Caribbean, Jonathan Knott said he would ask his government to increase its United Kingdom Export Finance (UKEF) funding to Guyana once all of the already increased amount has been exhausted. “The first thing we’ve got to do is exhaust the limit of UK Export Finance financing. My hope is that we’re super ...

A total of two persons have succumbed to gunshot injuries they received early Saturday morning outside V’s Delight, Lodge, Georgetown where there was an All Black party, the Guyana Police Force said Sunday. Police said Lawrence ‘Boy-Boy’ Wayne died Sunday morning at about 9 hours. ‘Boy-Boy’ was not named in two earlier police bulletins, and it was unclear when he was ...

By: Dr. Vivian M. Williams, Esq. ConocoPhillips knew it was in for a rough ride when it gave in to the lure of Venezuela’s oil and an array of concessions. Oil it was that put Venezuela on a slippery path to conflict on the global stage. Before bedazzling ConocoPhillips in the 1990s, the South American provocateur nationalized the oil concessions ...

by GHK Lall Members of Guyana’s indigenous community came to Georgetown for their own power convention and ended up at a PPP Congress. The Toshaos may have thought that this was going to be their 2024 summit meeting, a version of their state in the state, only for matters quickly to deteriorate to the usual. That is, the usual ruling ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus We all love truth, but they are different kinds of truths. The truth most universally loved is moral and transcendental. We can call this truth in itself; it is spaceless and timeless. Then there is truth that is based on rationality. In this case, truth is based on cost-benefit analysis, on a logic of ...

The motorcar, which was allegedly used in an early Saturday morning drive-by shooting that left one person dead and six others injured, was found later in the day in South Ruimveldt, police said. At about 9:30 Saturday morning, detectives said they went to Manatee Place, South Ruimveldt Georgetown, where they observed a black Toyota Premio motorcar, without number plate, parked ...

Businessman Lawrence Duprey has died, several sources close to him have confirmed to the Trinidad Express. Duprey was best known for his role as the former executive chairman of CL Financial and director at Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) (Trinidad) Limited. In 2009, the Trinidad and Tobago government had initiated a multi-billion-dollar bailout of CLICO. CLICO had failed operations in ...

Guyana has asked port health staff to be on the lookout for persons with signs of monkeypox, also known mpox, even as doctors were being put on alert and vaccines have been stockpiled to be possibly given to vulnerable segments of the population, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony said Saturday. The Health Ministry says mpox is a viral zoonotic infection ...

Public Works Minister, Deodat Indar has slapped opposition-aligned social media commentators, Sherod Duncan and Melissa Atwell with a GY$50 million defamation lawsuit. Mr Indar is also asking the High Court to order the duo to remove all false and defamatory posts from their Facebook pages, in addition to an injunction restraining them from publishing such defamatory words. Through his lawyer, ...