WASHINGTON, June 6, 2013  The World Bank Board of Directors approved a US$10 million loan to Antigua and Barbuda to support the Governments efforts to improve public sector efficiency, strengthen capacity and institutions, and deliver better services to its citizens and residents.  The Public and Social Sector Transformation Project seeks to:”Strengthen Antigua and Barbudas capacity to manage public policies and public services. “Improve ...

The Miss World Pageant which is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious beauty contests has announced that New York based Guyanese business woman and Financial Analyst, Natasha Martindale has been awarded the Miss World Franchise for Guyana. Ms. Matindale will now be tasked with organizing and hosting the Guyana leg of the international beauty event to find the ...

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Thursday shrugged off suggestions that the opposition alliance would lose votes because of unrests in Linden and Agricola last year. Insiders of the governing Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) say they plan to crank up their electioneering campaign to show their traditional supporters that the opposition was bent on destroying the country and ...

The results of this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) are to be made public on Friday, an education source says. The official told Demerara Waves Online News that Education Minister Priya Manickchand will present a report on the results at a press conference at 1PM. The results from this year’s exam along with those from exams written at Grades ...

UN Resident Coordinator in Guyana Khadija Musa has sounded a warning about the exploitation of natural resources by cash-rich countries. She was speaking at the World Environment Day observance on Wednesday at the Umana Yana where she said natural resources could be the source of future conflicts. “Governments have to be really careful when powerful countries with plenty of money ...

A Port Kaituma businessman was late Wednesday night beaten in his head with a handgun and tied up after three robbers carted off a huge sum of cash and mercury, he said. Police have since arrested two suspects and found GUY$100,000 in possession of one of them. No firearm was reportedly found. Police were hunting a third man. Reynold Moore, ...

The APNU has joined the AFC in publicly stating its opposition to the president and his Cabinet retaining any role in the awarding of public contracts whenever the Public Procurement Commission is set up. The AFC last week vowed to oppose government’s intention to amend the Procurement Act to allow Cabinet oversight to be retained. The Act, which was passed ...

The Guyana government on Wednesday deemed as unconstitutional” Opposition Leader David Granger’s suggestion that the posts of Chief Justice and Chancellor of the Judiciary be advertised. “The President appoints! Not the President and the Leader of the Opposition appoint. There is no defined process that involves the Leader of the Opposition other than agreeing with or not agreeing with the ...

US Ambassador in Georgetown Brent Hardt says it is vital that local government elections be held this year as signs of yet another postponement emerge. The envoy made the remark on Wednesday at an event in observance of World Environment Day at the Umana Yana where he said that the garbage situation was part of the larger problem of local ...

Guyana will ask Argentina for information about claims that Iran has been setting up terrorist cells here and other parts of South America and the Caribbean, a senior government official said Wednesday. Luncheon’s announcement came less than one week after an Argentine Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman claimed that the 2010 conviction of two Guyanese men for conspiring to blow up the ...