A Guyanese women-owned led company and ExxonMobil are among six separate expressions of interest in Guyana’s first ever auction for oil blocks offshore. The bids were opened by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board, after several push-back in deadlines that allowed for the passage of a new Petroleum Act and the drafting of a new model Production Sharing Agreement. There ...

The private sector on Tuesday appeared satisfied with steps that would be taken to ease an apparent shortage of foreign exchange at  commercial banks, even as the Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC), Komal Singh indicated that he was satisfied with the outcome of Monday’s talks. “The meeting yesterday (Monday) was a very fruitful meeting from a private sector ...

Amid uncertainty over whether President Irfaan Ali would be holding talks with the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) to discuss salaries and other benefits or he would be relying only on his meetings directly with teachers across the country, the union on Monday accused government of embarking on union busting tactics. “It is a form of union busting and it is ...

Secondary school students would now be allowed to cross-stream, and they would no longer have to rewrite exams in 5th Form, Education Minister Priya Manickchand announced on Monday. She told a ceremony to formally open the Maureen Massiah wing of The Bishops’ High School that the directives would be circulated to secondary schools shortly. Ms Manickchand said, “all the national ...

by GHK Lall Before proceeding, I tip my hat to Attorney General Mohabir Anil Nandlall, SC, MP., for announcing the withdrawal of that law firm bid for a $9.6 million public contract.  It is the wise and honorable thing to do, sir.  Well done.  Now to today’s focus. I always wondered why Vice President Jagdeo do almost everything.  Now I ...

An 11-year-old girl, whose primary school performance earned her a place at President’s College, and her father were among four persons who lost their lives in a collision on the De Hoop, Mahaica public road, East Coast Demerara. The Guyana Police Force identified the deceased as 37-year old Jason Rudder of 8 Glasgow Housing Scheme, East Berbice, and his daughter ...

By Dr. Randolph Persaud, Professor Emeritus We are barely done with GHK Lall’s apology, and now another failed APNU-AFC bureaucrat, Dr Vincent Adams, has surfaced to take a shot at Bharrat Jagdeo. Adams’ little deposit in the media (SN 9/9/2023) is more a product of frustration at his own party’s bungled attempt to steal the National and Regional elections of 2020. ...

by GHK Lall No government that claims to be about democracy’s ideals ever degrades to Gestapo-like tactics, coddles stormtroopers.  Live in Guyana is a shadowy online group in Guyana that operates openly and with impunity.  This group is unleashed to malign Guyanese who roll back the veils camouflaging PPP Government practices, and agitate its top brass.  The obscene is used ...

President Irfaan Ali on Saturday said substantive appointments of the Chief Justice and Chancellor of the Judiciary would have to await the work of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), even as he steered away from questions about whether he favoured the acting appointees. “That commission will now conduct its work independently; not only the issue of the Chancellor and the ...

Representatives of the banking sector and the business community are next week Monday scheduled to hammer out ways of addressing concerns about the availability of foreign exchange, President Irfaan Ali said Saturday. He said he has instructed the Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh to convene a stakeholder meeting with the private sector, the Bank of Guyana, all commercial banks ...