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Guyana Telephone and Telegraph’s (GTTs) Home Solutions and Fixed Networks this weekend continued the second phase of an unprecedented roll-out of its high speed fibre service to improve the internet connection of 20,000 homes across 18 communities within record breaking time of just three months. Over the past two weeks, the company rolled out fibre to Melanie, Coldingen, Enterprise Gardens, ...

Former Finance Minister Winston Jordan on Sunday recommended the creation of an African Development Fund and urged the government-funded  International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly – Guyana (IDPADA-G) to conduct a data-driven scientific study on the social and economic plight of Afro-Guyanese. While IDPADA-G has conducted an analysis of the historical condition of enslaved Africans and their descendants, ...

United Kingdom (UK) High Commissioner to Guyana Jane Miller said the British government was considering an assessment that could lead to the removal of visa restrictions on Guyanese travelling to that European country. “We are looking into it at the moment. I can’t make any promises but it’s obviously something we constantly look at,” she told Demerara Waves Online News, ...

Guyana’s Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony on Wednesday recommended that Caribbean pharmacists join their counterparts in other parts of the world in patient management rather than merely dispensing prescriptions. He told the formal opening of the Caribbean Association of Pharmacists (CAP) CAP2022 Convention that the time has come for pharmacists in the region to be involved in patient management. ...

President Irfaan Ali has announced plans to develop a Land Surveying Institution in Guyana which will serve the entire Caribbean as well as countries in Latin America. “Our vision is to create a land surveying institute in this country that will provide services for the entire Caribbean and Latin America. We must be in a position in three years to ...

Guyana would not have to pay for vacant seats on British Airways flights to Guyana to keep the United Kingdom-headquartered carrier on the Georgetown-Gatwick route, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said Wednesday. “We don’t have to do that with British Airways. I can tell you that upfront. That is not part of our negotiations. We don’t have to do that ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has announced that government has begun taking steps to repossess about 5,000 acres of former sugar estate land at Wales, West Bank Demerara and allocate the land for housing. He told a large meeting at Patentia, West Bank Demerara that the land includes several acres that had been leased to a private concern for the cultivation ...

President Irfaan Ali on Saturday announced that a Guyanese, who works with the global online marketplace, Amazon, is working with government to set up a special platform on which youths would be able to sell their products. Addressing the 4th anniversary of the Buxton-Friendship Museum, Archives and Culture Centre, Dr Ali said he was working with an Afro-Guyanese “who did ...

Guyana’s low carbon dioxide emission crude oil and break-even price of an average of U$28 per barrel have positioned the country’s reserves for a good market, even with a projected global demand of up to 50 million barrels per day by 2050 due to the shift to cleaner energy such as renewables, according to the Norway-headquartered Rystad Energy. Rystad Energy’s ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday said the United States (US) would be assisting Guyana in jointly assessing its hydro-electricity generation capacity. He told the opening of a Latin America and Caribbean meeting of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) that is one of the outcomes of his recent one-week visit to Washington DC where he held talks with the US Department ...