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The World Bank has agreed to help Guyana prepare for the next major step in becoming a member of the international watchdog on the use of resources such as oil, gold and forests, the Ministry of Natural Resources announced on Monday. The global financial institution is expected to dispatch a consultant to Georgetown to help Guyana set up a Multi-Stakeholder ...

As part of efforts aimed at knitting the Guyanese heritage into the lives of the diaspora living in the United States by creating the atmosphere and environment conducive for Guyanese to meet and interact, a “Guyana Heritage Festival”; which goes hand-in-hand with the celebrations for Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary, is being planned. Under the theme “Land of Our Roots and Culture”, the ...

Competition in the telecommunications industry is heating up with both major phone service providers rolling out various packages to woo customers. The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) has announced that all mobile pre- paid customers would receive a 10% free bonus credit on every top up (cards and electronic) and a 5% free bonus credit on the value of their monthly ...

Guyana’s President David Granger on Saturday announced a target of ensuring that every government building is powered by renewable energy over the next four years as part of the country’s drive to eventually eliminate its addiction to fossil fuels. “I do believe the private sector will come along with us but my short-term objective is to make the government green and ...

With the allocation of additional spectrum by the Ministry of Public Telecommunications, Guyana’s telephone service providers have finally launched their 4G networks across Guyana. Improved telecommunication services are a long awaited advent for Guyana given the increasing demands of today’s technological environment. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Digicel Guyana Kevin Kelly officially launched the service in Bartica on Saturday ...

A group of vendors, who normally sell outside the old Guyana Stores Limited (GSL) bond on Water Street, have now been left out in the cold as the businessman plans to tell the High Court that he never granted them permission to play their trade, but instead they had long obstructed him from using the plot of land. An interim ...

The Full Court of the High Court on Friday ordered the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) to halt the sending home or re-deployment of hundreds of sugar workers stationed at the Wales Sugar Estate until they are consulted in keeping with the law. The order was secured by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), represented by its General Secretary ...

A security guard, who was employed at the Princess Ramada Hotel, and two other men were Friday charged with an GYD$8.5 million robbery committed at the Princess Casino late last month. Appearing before Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan,  the trio Wayne Griffith, 29,  Junior Stewart, 30 of Thomas Street, Kitty and the security guard, 35-year old Andre Blackman of Mc ...

President David Granger on Friday endorsed the clean-up of the Stabroek Market Square and called on the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown to hasten efforts to prepare and provide an alternative location for the vendors, who have been removed from the Stabroek Market Square. “I deeply regret that there has been some delay between the removal of the vendors, ...

Digicel (Guyana) Limited has donated GYD$2 million to assist in financing GuyExpo 2016, at a time when there has been a cut in the budget for the annual trade fair. The donation by the mobile phone carrier includes its rental of a booth at the Sophia Exhibition Centre where it will exhibit its products and services during the event that ...