The Guyana Sugar Corporation on Tuesday commissioned a GUY$85M Bioethanol Demonstration Plant at its Albion Estate, Berbice. CEO Paul Bhim said the facility, partly funded by the IDB to the tune of GUY$67M, would be used for training and not commercial purposes. “This plant will operate 32 weeks a year, it cannot operate more than that because it needs steam ...

One person is missing and presumed dead after a passenger boat hit a log in the Port Kaituma River ,North West District Tuesday afternoon. Reports are that a small passenger boat , called “Breeze Out” was heading to Mabaruma  from Port Kaituma around 4 pm when the vessel hit a log during heavy rains.The vessel then slammed into  mangrove patch ...

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment  on Tuesday signed two agreements that will bring significant impetus to environmental protection A $4M one-year co-financing grant was inked with the World Wild Life Fund (WWF); while the second is a $28M contract for construction of a head office to house the newly formed Protected Areas Commission (PAC). Minister of Natural Resources and ...

A large quantity of cocaine was found in a consignment of rice aboard a ship in the Dominican Republic, but it is unclear whether the narcotic was placed in the grain before it left Guyana. The grain was purchased from a local producer and exported by the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) to Venezuela on August 1 via Jamaica and ...

A 13-year old boy drowned on Tuesday in the Mazaruni River, according to well-placed sources. He was the son of son of well-known shopkeeper, Stephen “Syrup” Scipio of the bauxite mining town of Linden. The boy’s body was expected to be flown out of the area. Preliminary information is that the boy was walking on a landing to the edge ...

 Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) on Tuesday said its upgrade of sewerage pump stations and the installation of delivery mains is progressing as planned.  The US$10 million project is being funded under the Government of Guyana/Inter-American Development Georgetown Sanitation Improvement Programme (GSIP) Rehabilitation works at Pump Station P at Regent Street and Avenue of the Republic and Pump Station W at Princess ...

A grievance over money on Tuesday ended up with a youth from Albouystown, Georgetown being stabbed to death, according to sources. The dead man has been identified as  Tadaskie Marshall of 19 Hogg Street. The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) that at 11:20 AM, a28 year old man was taken to the institution with multiple stab wounds to the chest. The ...

Elevated from Commodore to Rear Admiral, outgoing Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Chief- of-Staff, Gary Best is one month away from retiring from a force that he said is set for transformation and modernisation, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported. Today, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces President Donald Ramotar and Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon who is also ...

GENEVA (ILO News) – The International Labour Organization’s Maritime Labour Convention (MLC, 2006) comes into force on 20 August 2013, inaugurating a new era of decent work for seafarers and fair competition for shipowners in the global shipping industry.  “This Convention is a milestone in maritime history,” said ILO Director-General Guy Ryder. “The product of tripartite dialogue and international cooperation, ...

Former General Secretary of the governing Peoples Progressive Party (PPP), Donald Ramotar said a probe could be conducted into open campaigning for elections to the 35-member Central Committee at the recently concluded party congress. “I don’t have any concrete information but that will be the responsibility of this new body to set up. The new General Secretary will determine when ...