Guyana is finding a hard time hiring contractors from India to execute huge projects here because the rules have changed and the contracts are comparatively too small, Finance Minister Winston Jordan said Thursday. “One of the problems is that there is a new system in place in India- a new procurement tendering system- which, according to High Commissioner (of India), ...

Guyana has scrapped the India-funded Specialty Hospital project and will repay the amount of money that has been already spent on works at the Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara location, Finance Minister Winston Jordan announced Thursday. “This issue is dead, dead,” he told a news briefing when asked about the status of that health institution.  Jordan explained that at the request ...

The rate of implementation of Guyana’s Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP) has been pegged at a lowly 20 percent, prompting a call by Finance Minister Winston Jordan for retired persons to become evaluators. “If there is one that we haven’t really got going is the Public Sector Investment Programme, we would like to see far more done,” he said, adding ...

President David Granger on Wednesday met with Mr. John Hess, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of HESS Corporation, the exploration company that holds a 30 percent interest in Exxon Mobil’s offshore drilling operations in the Stabroek Block. The CEO was accompanied by the company’s President and Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Greg Hill, Executive Vice President at Exxon Mobil Exploration Corporation, Mr. Mike Cousins, Country ...

Following is the Working People’s Alliance’s tribute to late Tchaiko Kwayana The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is deeply pained and saddened at the death of Sister Tchaiko Kawayana, who, after a struggle with cancer, departed the world of the living to join her ancestors on the morning of Saturday May 6th 2017 in the USA. Sister Tchaiko was the wife ...

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs (MOIPA), Alfred King, has disclosed an alarming state of affairs at the government agency, unearthed in a review of the Ministry’s compliance with legislative and accounting standards. King was at the time addressing the opening of now quarterly meetings of Community Development Officers attached to the Ministry and posted across the ...

A logger of Phase Two Amelia’s Ward, Linden was early this morning arrested with a quantity of ammunition and an unlicensed firearm, at his home, police said. Police acting on information went to the logger’s home about 02:00 hrs. and conducted a search of the two –story structure and that of a bond in the yard ,in the presence of ...

Less than one day after allegations of financial irregularities were levelled against Director of Sport, Christopher Jones, he denied the claims and deemed them “politically” motivated and jealousy of his achievements in promoting and developing sport. “I have every reason to believe that this article is part of a naked attack on my person, character and integrity which is politically motivated. ...

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Tuesday ordered Guyana to refund the Trinidad-based beverage company, SM Jaleel and its subsidiary in Guyana,  a yet to be agreed large amount of Environmental Tax levied between 2011 and 2015 in violation of Caricom’s trade rules. “The Court holds that Guyana has been clearly unjustly enriched at the expense of SMJ and ...

A labourer, who allegedly threw a bag with marijuana and other prohibited items, over the Georgetown Prison fence Monday night was arrested and would be charged shortly, police said. The incident occurred at about 9:30PM when a policeman observed the man with a “bulky bag which he swiftly threw over the north-eastern fence of the prison and attempted to flee ...