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Finance Minister Winston Jordan Wednesday afternoon announced that prices of gasoline and diesel with immediate effect. The new prices are diesel:  GUY$168.00 per liter, down from GUY$174.70 and gasoline is now GUY$199.00, down from GUY$210.00. Jordan hoped that those additional “pro poor measures” would trickle down to ordinary people including school children. “It is hope that these decreases trending in ...

The Caribbean region’s ability to cash in on a potentially lucrative, international export trade in fish and seafood is being held back by huge gaps in measures to protect food safety and animal health, experts say, according to the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM). But  the experts, who are investigating food handling  policies in  ten Caribbean countries  for  the  CRFM,  ...

The Guyana Music Network (GMN) intends to petition government to enact modern copyright legislation to ensure those artistes can earn a fair livelihood from their talent , and also ask government to compel the state-owned radio station to play at least 50 percent of Guyanese music to stimulate demand. “This is not an anti-government thing. It is anti-piracy,” GMN Founder, ...

Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister, Basil Williams believes that court matters that involved the State were not vigourously pursued under the former administration. He related that many of the cases involving the State were contracted out to private firms and individuals rather than being done by those responsible for the task. Williams made his claim during his budget debate ...

Expecting to be heckled for her seemly “wrong” decision to abandon the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) then in opposition, for  the People Progressive Party (PPP) to again end up in opposition, Africo Selman made it absolutely clear Tuesday August 18, that she has the right to associate with the party of choice. Selman, a ...

The newly-elected Guyana government on Tuesday announced plans to beef up the civil aviation sector as part of plans for the country to once again be rated Category One. “Government will spare no effort in ensuring that Guyana attains Catgeory One in the shortest possible time,”  Junior Minister of Public Infrastructure, Annette Ferguson told the National Assembly during debate on ...

Dismissed National Sports Commission (NSC) Director Neend ‘Neil’ Kumar defended his appointment to the office under the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) government and slammed the current administration for what he claimed was his dismissal based on “discrimination.” The opposition member was on Tuesday August 18 delivering his budget debate presentation in the National Assembly when he charged that the government ...

Residents of River View, Ruimveldt woke up Tuesday morning to severe flooding because the koker (drainage sluice) door has been “jammed” and could not close before high tide. Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson told Demerara Waves Online that he was told that when the sluice attendant attempted to close the door at about 2:30 AM, he could not do ...

Veteran Guyanese broadcaster and former Secretary General of the Caribbean Broadcasting (CBU), Terrence “Terry” Holder was Monday inducted into the CBU’s Hall of Fame. In part, the citation read by another veteran regional broadcaster, Jones P. Madeira states: “The television audiences of the Caribbean also have Terry Holder to thank for another programme, which is still fondly-remembered as demonstrating the ...

Amid claims by the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) that government handed out contracts to its friends to audit several State entities, Junior Finance Minister Jaipaul Sharma told the National Assembly that several persons and entities had been invited to conduct the “stocktaking” exercises. “Mr. Speaker, all efforts were made to have a very wide participation of Chartered Accounting firms ...