Public Health Minister Dr George Norton has confirmed police investigators are probing the disappearance of HIV Rapid Test Kits for Region 6. Norton told Demerara Waves Online this information had come from the ministry’s Materials Management Unit (MMU). The disappearances for Region 6 started about two months ago, however, Minister Norton said it was only brought to his attention a ...
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Gov’t invites Opposition, Unions to high-level sugar diversification meeting for saturday
Pushing forward with the agenda to diversify, a group of Ministers, including State Minister Joseph Harmon and Agriculture Minister Noel Holder, will meet with the Opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), and some named trade unions to discuss the way forward for Guyana’s ailing sugar industry. Diversification work has already started at the Wales Estate which ended sugar production a few ...
Read More »Gov’t to engage mining groups on reducing gold buying price by 3%- Minister Trotman
Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman has signalled government’s intention to engage the mining organisations after a recent announcement that the Gold Board considered purchasing gold from small and medium-scale miners at 3% less than the world market price. Those meetings with the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) as well as the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) should happen ...
Read More »Gold Board’s $9B treasury deficit sparks call for shift from gold purchasing to regulating
Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman is convinced that with the Guyana Gold Board racking up a $9B deficit at the Bank of Guyana over the last five or so years, a review of the organisation’s function is necessary which would see it transition into a gold regulator thus reducing its role as a purchaser of gold. From all indications, this ...
Read More »11 laws to be changed before tax measures in Budget 2017 take effect
11 laws will be amended to support tax provisions made in budget 2017, and those proposed amendments were tabled by Finance Minister Winston Jordan in the National Assembly on tuesday. Provisions to be amended included those within the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act; Customs Act; VAT Act; Capital Gains Tax Act; Corporation Tax Act; Income Tax (In Aid of ...
Read More »Guyana scores 64% on compliance for international aviation rating
Guyana’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has scored 64% from an audit assessment facilitated by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), according to the local aviation body’s head, Egbert Field. This marks an increase considering Guyana’s previous score of 44%. Field told Demerara Waves Online the CAA “fell down a little in the audit because we did not have enough expertise.” ...
Read More »Full surveillance of Guyana’s airspace expected in 2017, says head of Air Navigation Services
Guyana will soon be able to fully monitor its airspace, according to the Civil Aviation Authority’s Air Navigational Services Director, Rickford Samaroo, who said the 2017 allocation of $350M will aid in the installation of four other navigational stations. Those stations, according to Samaroo, are to be located at Port Kaituma, Kamarang, Kaieteur, and Annai. Already, the Timehri surveillance system, ...
Read More »Dynamic Airways Guyana operations to be reviewed, to determine way forward- Civil Aviation authority
Guyana’s Civil Aviation Authority will be reviewing the operations of Dynamic Airways in Guyana in order to find an effective way forward, according to CAA’s Director- General, Egbert Field. He said the aviation body is awaiting a report from Dynamic Airways on the Georgetown and New York weekend delays affecting some 400 passengers. “To give definitive answer as to what ...
Read More »CAL, Fly Jamaica planes at CJIA accident still under investigation- Civil Aviation head
Investigations are still ongoing in the recent accident at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport where an incoming Caribbean Airlines plane clipped the tail of a parked Fly Jamaica plane, according to head of the Civil Aviation Authority, Lt. Col. (Ret’d) Egbert Field. “The investigation is still ongoing and the Accident Investigation Group is actively proceeding with that investigation,” Field told ...
Read More »Gov’t budgets for 2017 rental of $12.5M monthly Sussex Street drug bond- Health Minister Norton
Despite Cabinet’s intention to review the contract for the controversial $12M monthly Sussex Street drug bond, Public Health Minister Dr George Norton disclosed in the Supply Committee of the National Assembly that the $12M monthly bond will still be rented for the year 2017. $180M has been budgeted for rental of buildings in 2017 by the Public Health Ministry’s under ...
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