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Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton says if his People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led coalition wins the 2025 general and regional elections a number of senior police officers would be removed. “We have got to clean the police force of those senior corrupt officers who have no interest in law enforcement but are interested in getting wealthy,” he said on KAMSTV. He ...

Former Finance Minister Winston Jordan is insisting that government’s assistance to the agriculture sector is skewed in favour of People’s Progressive Party (PPP) supporters rather than across the board, but a senior official of the governing party accused him of race-baiting and said the evidence proves otherwise. “This $1 billion subsidy that was given last year in fertiliser subsidy was ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo 0n Thursday said the United States’s Export-Import (EXIM) Bank has informed Guyana that it has received environmental and technical reports showing that the US$756 million dollar electricity and natural gas liquids plants are “sound”. “They have examined all the technical stuff. That is the drawings and everything else for the project. They have satisfied themselves that ...

Former Special Economic Advisor to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dr Maurice Odle on Wednesday lamented the failure of Caribbean nations to take advantage of the 2008 European Union-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) in order to tap into European markets. Speaking at the launch of his autobiography titled “An Eventful Life”, he said it is very hard for Caribbean services to ...

The then Divisional Commander of Region One (Barima-Waini), Senior Superintendent Himnauth Sawh is now Head of the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Transport Workshop. The law enforcement agency did not issue a specific release about the change of command, but Mr Sawh’s name and new responsibility was mentioned in a news release about police benefitting from a two-day procurement process training ...

The Guyana Police Force on Tuesday changed its Divisional Commander for Region One (Barima-Waini), just over one week after 4.4 tonnes of cocaine were unearthed from pits near an illegal airstrip in Matthews Ridge, North West District. Superintendent Krishna Ramana said he assumed duty at the remote interior location on Tuesday, replacing Senior Superintendent Himnauth Sawh. In announcing the discovery and ...

Guyana’s Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand on Tuesday said questions were being raised about whether the Caribbean Examinations Council’s (CXC) Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) mathematics exam this year was tougher and so resulted in lower grades. “Kids came out of the exam bawling in a way that they did not last year. CXC is our servant like I am ...

President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday ann0unced plans for improving the rundown state of Georgetown, once regarded as the Garden City of the Caribbean, with assistance from the United Kingdom’s King Charles Foundation. The Guyanese leader said the local government – Mayor and City Council – would be involved in that urban renewal project, but central government would be responsible for ...

The Ministry of Education on Tuesday launched a teachers’ college pilot project to improve Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) mathematics grades, with a stern warning that under-performing teachers would be removed. Education Minister, Priya Manickchand said the aim is to improve the pass rate to 45 or 50 percent, up from just over 30 percent this year. The pilot project ...

Trinidad and Tobago’s state-owned National Energy Company (NEC) has raked in profits ten times its expenses of setting up business in Guyana, that twin-island nation’s Energy Minister Stuart Young said Monday. Responding to questions in the Senate, he said the company earned US$5.3 million (TT$36,262,827). He detailed that NEC earned TT$350,000 (US$51,564.) for technical services, and TT$35,912, 363 (US$5,291,298) for ...