United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon is calling on the international community to help improve the health and well-being of  Indigenous Peoples across the world. He listed them as inadequate sanitation and housing, lack of prenatal care, widespread violence against women, and high rates of diabetes, drug and alcohol abuse, youth suicide and infant mortality. Ban issued the call ...

Reproduced from Barbados Advocate Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Freundel Stuart, met yesterday with His Excellency Jorge Arreaza, Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The Vice President was in Barbados as part of a regional tour to discuss Venezuela’s territorial and maritime claims in the region. During their discussions, Prime Minister Stuart emphasised the need to maintain peace ...

After several weeks of intense grilling, the man police believed shot dead political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing was Friday afternoon charged with murder. He is 37-year old Regan ‘Grey Boy’ Rodrigues of Riverview, Ruimveldt. He is acuused of the murder of Crum-Ewing on March 10,2015 at Diamond , East Bank Demerara. Rodrigues was not required to plea to the indictable charge ...

by Zena Henry The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) on Friday welcomed government’s announcement that it would be fulfilling its 100 day promise to small miners by waiving duties on fuel, tools and small scale mining equipment. “We are very pleased. We have been asking for these things for a long while but we haven’t seen the list ...

by Zena Henry The Ministry of Finance has put in place new measures to tighten possible squandering and dishonesty in relation to government officials travel allowances and advances effective June 16, 2015. This revelation comes as government defended itself against a newspaper article claiming that the new government was setting to pay themselves big time when going on state business ...

by Zena Henry Guyana’s immigration authority was finally able to have eight Indian nationals, who were denied entry into the country, depart early Friday morning. The men, it was reported were unable to provide adequate information on their place of accommodation and purpose for entering into the country and were thus disallowed. The Cheddi Jagan International Airport has said that ...

Finance Minister Winston Jordan on Friday said government plans to withdraw an estimated GUY$30 billion in deposits being held by semi-autonomous state entities in commercial banks, saying that it would help to narrow the deficit. Jordan, who is a former Budget Director at the Finance Ministry, said he told executives of the Guyana Association of Bankers that the monies to ...

The police are conducting investigations into a robbery/murder that occurred at the Jade Stone Chinese Restaurant, Mandela Avenue, Georgetown. At about 0030h. today Friday August 07, 2015, Fei Su, 32 years, was confronted in her home above the restaurant by a group of men who assaulted her and took away an undisclosed sum of money. On checking later, she found ...

The Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, says it has recently approved a grant of US $551,386 for a project with Mobile Money Guyana(MMG), that will create access to formal money transfer and payments for at least 10,000 domestic remittance-sending clients that live in remote, underserved areas in Guyana’s  regions 4, 6, 9, and 10 ...

by Zena Henry With the significant oil find offshore Guyana, many persons have questioned the contract between Guyana and United States-based oil giant Exxon Mobil, hoping that the country will get what it deserves. However, at this point the government seems quite satisfied with the current agreement between the two entities. Minister of State Raphael Trotman told Demerara Waves Wednesday ...