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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a US$90 million loan to contribute to human capital development in Guyana, the hemispheric bank said Wednesday. The loan approved by the IDB’s Board of Executive Directors is designed to expand access to safe and improved learning environments and enhance educational services for vulnerable students in Guyana. This is the first individual operation of ...

Eight 9 MM handguns and five bulky bags of marijuana were Wednesday afternoon discovered in a barrel by Customs officers at the La Parkan Shipping bond, Cheddi Jagan International Airport. The barrel was shipped by someone who gave an address in Bronx, New York and was consigned to a relative in New Amsterdam, Berbice. The weight of the drugs has ...

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday announced a CDN$3.4 million initiative to provide equipment and assistance to improve the security situation in Haiti, at the Canada-Caribbean Community (CARICOM) summit being held in Ottawa. He said the aid is to “fight weapons-related violence.”  He added that Canada would launch a multi-year training programme to assist Haiti’s National Police Force to ...

Opposition Shadow Local Government Minister, Ganesh Mahipaul and Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha on Wednesday were at loggerheads 0ver the claims by that APNU+AFC parliamentarian that the termination of a contract to build an irrigation pump at Black Bush Polder would result in a loss of more than GY$38 million. But Mr Mustapha countered saying that his ministry’s National Drainage ...

As Venezuela deployed 150 soldiers near their border with Guyana, Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd asked the Venezuelan Ambassador to Guyana to explain the movement of troops near the border between the two countries that are embroiled in a territorial controversy. The Foreign Affairs Ministry said though the Venezuelan Ambassador, Carlos Amador Pérez Silva claimed that the mobilisation of troops ...

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Wednesday definitively ruled out any possibility of the US$214 million in disputed audited costs for expenses incurred from 1999 to 2017 being changed, leaving the door open now for the company to move to arbitration.  “The Authority wishes to categorically re-iterate that it stands by its advice to the Ministry of Natural Resources and ...

by Peter Richards BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Oct 17, CMC – Venezuela’s government and opposition Tuesday signed agreements here paving the way for new electoral conditions in the South American country and raising the possibility of the removal of sanctions by the United States against Caracas. The signings here came following the latest round of talks mediated by Norway and after multiple ...

The bipartisan Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Guyana’s National Assembly was Monday informed that a number of then officials of the Maritime Administration (MARAD) were relieved of their duties for allegedly not abiding by the procurement rules that had led to the variation in the award of multi-million-dollar contracts. Government parliamentarian Dharamkumar Seeraj and his opposition counterpart, Ganesh Mahipaul questioned ...

Worried about a “soft invasion” of Guyana and eventual annexation of the Essequibo Region by Venezuela, the opposition People’s National Congress Reform-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) on Tuesday called on government to screen Venezuelan “refugees”. “Should they become a majority in any sizeable area of our territory, Guyana could face the threat ...

ExxonMobil President Alistair Routledge on Tuesday acknowledged telling a parliamentary opposition delegation that an agreement had been reached with government for the reduction in disputed audited costs to US$3 million but said that was not a formal accord. “We did not have any formal agreement from the ministry and,indeed as the ministry, the minister and the Vice President made clearer, ...