Fishing vessels will first have to be fitted with Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) before they are licensed in 2014 as part of efforts to monitor harvests in keeping with international rules, the Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday. “We are therefore calling on all fishing vessels to be outfitted with VMS units before they are licensed for next year. Such a ...

Guyana on Tuesday announced that it would be donating US$275,000 to three Eastern Caribbean islands that recently suffered deaths and damage due to bad weather. The Foreign Ministry said the cash would be used to “assist in their recovery efforts in the wake of the recent heavy rains which resulted in the loss of lives and critical damage to property ...

Amid increasing incidents of domestic violence that has left several wounded or dead, President Donald Ramotar on New Years 2014 announced that social and religious organisations would be enlisted to fight the “scourge”. “In 2014, I propose to conscript social and religious organizations in the fight against domestic violence.   I believe that these organizations should play a leading role ...

Transport Minister, Robeson Benn on Monday said refusal to grant permission for the construction of an airstrip in the New River Triangle was in keeping with a policy position about mineral activity in the area. The highly controversial grant of Permission for Geological and Geophysical Survey (PGGS) to a Guyanese company, Muri Brasil Ventures Inc, has put Natural Resources Minister, ...

Guyana’s treasury has so far lost GUY$40 million due to delays in widening the East Coast Demerara public road because of the erection of what government says are an illegal fence and other structures by BM Soat Auto dealership, government said Monday. Public Works Minister, Robeson Benn insisted that BM Soat has encroached on public property at Chateau Margot that ...

In the wake of concerns by the Alliance For Change (AFC) that its telephones are being bugged and conversation recorded, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) on Monday said it does not record phone talk. GT&T’s CEO, Radha Krishna Sharma said the phone company has not been asked by any government agency to provide a recording of a conversation ...

HAMBURG, Germany – The German company, RWE Dea, has a deal with Repsol Exploración Guyana to farm-in to the Kanuku license operated by Repsol in the Guyana-Suriname basin offshore Guyana. By entering the South American country, RWE Dea further expands its upstream position along the northeastern coast of South America. Under the farm-in agreement, RWE Dea will acquire a 30% ...

President Donald Ramotar on Monday expressed concern about the shortage of drugs and dumping of large quantities of expired drugs by public health care institutions. Addressing the Ministry of Health’s launch of “Health Vision 2020- A National Health Strategy for Guyana 2013-2020”, the Guyanese leader said “that is totally unacceptable.” “What is taking place these are things that we have ...

Guyana is looking to achieve universal secondary education by 2016 says Minister Priya Manickchand. She was briefing the media about the ministry’s 2014 plans on Monday at the Cara Lodge. “We intend to achieve universal secondary education before the first term of the Donald Ramotar administration ends. That means that students across the country that are of a secondary age ...

One building formerly housing Sherry’s Taxi Service on Waterloo Street, Georgetown was early Monday morning destroyed by fire suspected to be the work of arsonists. No one lived in the rickety wooden building that was due to be demolished by its new owner very shortly. A two-flat building immediately south of the burnt building, which houses the medical practice of ...