No public money was used to finance a trip by coalition government members to the United States last week for a victory rally, says Minister of the Presidency Joseph Harmon. Several people, including Harmon, Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman and Minister of Tourism, Kathy Hughes journeyed to New York to take part in an A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) ...

Cabinet is exploring the possibility of redirecting the remaining US$14million ($2.8billion) of a US$18million ($3.6billion) loan secured from Export-Import (Exim) Bank of China Bank by the Donald Ramotar administration for the construction of a specialty hospital for the purpose of bolstering existing public health infrastructure and capacity. “The current thinking of the administration is that once those sums of money ...

by Zena Henry With a history-making production on the way, debts to rice farmers and Venezuela being the State’s only rice market, the government is setting for bilateral talks with the Spanish speaking nation to seek an extension of the oil –for-rice agreement which is expected to expire this year. Guyana last year produced 600,000 tons of the grain in ...

The new administration is reviewing the President’s Scholarship Award Programme due to several “issues” surrounding its functioning, says Minister of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon. In addition to looking at opportunities for young Guyanese scholarships abroad, the Education Minister, he said, has been tasked with reviewing the programme to incorporate increased opportunities for Guyanese at home to study at the University ...

by Zena Henry The government has approved release of $3.8B out of the $16B that the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has requested to keep it operational up to year end. Minister of State Joseph Harmon told a media briefing at the Ministry of the Presidency Wednesday June 17, that this portion of the request will be released immediately to ensure ...

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has granted Guyana a US$20,000 reduction on the cost run to reschedule the sitting of Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE). As such, government is now required to pay CXC approximately US$365,000 ($73 million) as opposed to the previous figure of approximately US$380,000 ($80 million.) This is according to Minister ...

One of two carjackers was arrested and a stolen item recovered, following a shootout between police and the bandits. The Guyana Police Force said in a statement that at about 2100h last night Tuesday June 16, 2015, taxi-driver Zaheer Khaleel, 22 years, of Diamond Housing Scheme, EBD, was held up in the Housing Scheme by two men who had hired ...

Rejected Ballots at record low A total of 4043 ballots were declared invalid and thus rejected during Elections 2015, says Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Dr. Steve Surujbally. 412,012 persons voted in this year’s elections. As such, the number of rejected ballots amounts to 0.098 percent of total votes cast. This is down from 1.32 percent in 2011, when ...

(BARBADOS TODAY).-A Guyanese man was sentenced to seven years in prison by Chief Magistrate Pamela Beckles yesterday. The sentence was imposed after Ryon Marlon George pleaded guilty to seven drug charges in the Oistins Magistrates’ Court, involving 19. 6 kilograms of cocaine. The contraband, worth almost $1 million, was found on the MV Fairland cargo ship.    George lives at ...

In the face of intensified aggression by Venezuela to lay claim over the Essequibo Region, the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) on Tuesday called on the main opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) in the National Assembly and send a unified message to Guyana’s western neighbour. “The IAC recognizes that at this critical juncture in the history of Guyana, the PPP ...