Business

United Airlines on Monday landed its first scheduled flight to Guyana, and Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Oneidge Walrond forecasts that the entry of that American carrier in the local market would be a fillip to the economy. “We expect this to lead to a significant increase in visitor arrivals, which will have a positive ripple effect throughout our ...

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GGCI), Guyana’s oldest business organisation, has recorded 150 new members in the 2023-2024 financial year, and has recorded 85.6 percent in surplus cash, according to chamber President, Kester Hutson. Mr Hutson told Demerara Waves Online News that that business support organisation has more than 1,000 members. Boasting a diverse membership, he told the ...

Two weeks after Guyana signed a US$23.27 million deal to buy two India-made Dornier aircraft for the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), two India Air Force  transport planes touched down at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on Sunday with the two planes, sources said. The two Boeing C-17 Globemaster military transport planes arrived in Guyana shortly after 6 PM Sunday with ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday accused the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration of failing to pay healthcare workers more but was preparing to hire Bangladeshis and other foreign healthcare workers at higher salaries, but Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said they would be paid the same as Guyanese. “You cannot bring Bangladeshis, bring whoever you want to bring and ...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) on Thursday asked Guyana to take steps to stamp out corruption especially in law enforcement agencies, public procurement and the oil sector as a matter of priority and ensure that all anti-corruption bodies are truly independent “The Committee urges the State party to adopt concrete measures to address the root causes of corruption ...

The Guyana government is constructing a GY$600 million abattoir at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice, and that facility is expected to be the country’s main slaughtering area, authorities said. “When completed, the facility will become the main slaughtering area for cattle in the country as Region Five is poised to become the hub for the ‘cattle industry’,” government said. The state-of-the ...

The Dominican Republic (DR)-headquartered electricity company, InterEnergy Group (IEG), said it is ready to assist the state-owned Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) to manage its electricity supply including the 300 megawatts that would be generated from the natural gas-fired power plant being built at Wales, West Bank Demerara. “We believe that we can bring to Guyana Power and Light ...

Guyanese who would like to visit European Union (EU) member-nations would from next year no longer have to travel to Suriname to obtain Schengen visas, as France would be doing so in 2025 when it opens an embassy in Georgetown, Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd said Saturday. Mr Todd said France’s decision to establish a full-fledged diplomatic presence here was ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd on Monday confirmed that government has given approval to a private company to hire health care workers, and said that the company could now do so from any other country not just Bangladesh. “They have amended that…It can be Latin America and the Caribbean, it could be Asia. It is broad now so they are ...

The leaders of Guyana and Suriname have decided that ministers from both neighbouring South American nations would have to hold further talks on key issues for the construction of a US$300 million bridge across the Corentyne River. Major decisions were take by President Irfaan Ali and his Surinamese counterpart, Chandrikapersad Santokhi in talks held at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara on ...