By GHK Lall Guyana’s archbishop of straight talk, fair play, and telling it as it is, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, is up to his usual sanctimonious self again. Guyanese must learn to ‘temper’ their expectations relative to their oil riches. What they get, how much they are going to get, and when they will get, something of substance from their oil ...

GTT, in partnership with WANSAT, has successfully backhauled cellular traffic from the hinterland to Georgetown via an international satellite and fibre connection, the phone company said Monday. The project is being managed entirely from WANSAT’s Network Operations Centre (NOC) in Georgetown and is a first implementation of its kind for any telecom operator in Guyana. Cellular backhaul is the process ...

Amid persistent calls by sections of Guyanese for government to use some of the oil earnings to pay increased wages and salaries, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Sunday sought to calm expectations that the country has a huge chunk of money pouring into the economy to do so. “How are we going to distribute what we don’t have?,” he told ...

Although the Ministry of Education has publicly ruled out negotiating a 2019-2023 salary increase, the Guyana Teachers’ Union says it expects a counter-proposal when the two sides meet again on Tuesday. “When we go back to the meeting on Tuesday, our expectation is that government will bring a position to the table to say ‘look, we’re offering this percentage for ...

As Guyana gradually prepares for general elections next year, General Secretary of the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Sunday warned emerging political challengers that they could face stiff response “You got all kinds, some who are trying to challenge us but they better be cautious. They got to come right. It’s a free country politically, but they ...

An early Sunday morning fire destroyed  two hotels and two houses at Eteringbang, a gold mining community on the Guyana side of the border with Venezuela, sources said. No one was injured. A source said the fire was caused by a faulty electricity generator. The Guyana Fire Service, however, said the fire that started at about 3 AM was of ...

By GHK Lall President Irfaan Ali went to Williamsburg, Corentyne, Berbice for the ribbon cutting for a new Republic Bank branch. The president spoke about loans, mortgages, investments, and more. He should have limited himself to ribbon cutting. It was a mouthful, according to a Demerara News article captioned, “More loans being repaid, borrowings increasingly diversified-President Ali” (March 09). When ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC. More than 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed by incessant military activities by the Israeli Defense Force. Most of the dead are women and children, and noncombatants. Although Israel undoubtedly has every right to defend itself, it does not have the right to wantonly violate every international and humanitarian ...

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) welcomes the Government of Guyana’s milestone announcement on the authorization of carbon units for use in the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) for the 2024-2026 compliance period. Under the ICAO Council approved Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) programme, 4.64 million CORSIA-eligible units have been issued and authorized by Guyana, now ...

President Irfaan Ali on Saturday said the number of Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) in Guyana has dropped to 2.8 percent, the lowest in Latin America and the Caribbean, and more money is being borrowed for a wider variety of projects. “That is not accidental. That is because there is more money in the economy. That is because there is more disposable ...