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A Dutch company and a Chinese company have submitted bids to Guyana’s National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) to build the Corentyne River bridge. They are The Netherlands-headquartered Ballast Nedam and China Road and Bridges. Ballast Nedam has built most major river bridges in Suriname. Demerara Waves Online News was told that the next step is for the bids ...

Two members of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), who resisted the eviction and demolition of a building housing their party’s office in Lethem, had charges against them dismissed because the prosecution could prove that the building was in possession of the State. Their Attorney-at-Law, Darren Wade, who is also a PNCR member, described the charges as “politically motivated” against ...

ExxonMobil on Friday remained silent amid calls by Guyana’s opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) for the company to exhibit integrity and admit that it informed the lawmakers that it had reached an agreement with government to reduce disputed costs from US$214 million to US$3 million. A company spokesman said he forwarded a Demerara Waves Online News ...

President Irfaan Ali has said that Guyana is running out of large acreages of land on the coastal strip. Speaking at the recently held Guyana-Canada Chamber of Commerce Dinner and Awards, he said, “the reality is that we don’t have that land now on the coast.” He said he asked for pictures of new developments asked for pictures of the ...

Opposition parliamentarian David Patterson and two other colleagues Thursday night rubbished earlier claims by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo that ExxonMobil officials denied that they ever told a meeting with A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarians that the company had agreed to reduce disputed audited costs from US$214 million US$3 million. Mr Jagdeo related that after learning of ...

The major thoroughfare, Red Road, at Providence, East Bank Demerara on Thursday bulged and cracked, forcing vehicular and to avoid that artery altogether, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said. As a result of the “unusual” occurrence, he said traffic on Red Road would be restricted from the Providence Public Road to Massy’s supermarket. He told reporters that engineers believed that ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said ExxonMobil denied claims by opposition parliamentarian David Patterson that government had decided to reduce the audited costs from US$214 million to US$3 million. Government reiterated that, through the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), it was challenging the US$214 million in costs that Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) as part of the US$1.67 ...

By Dr. Randolph Persaud, Professor Emeritus Only two days into the Israel-Hamas war and already 1600 people have been killed, most of them civilians. Thousands more have been injured, kidnapped, and displaced. The old saying that “war is not the answer” has more meaning now than ever. The parties to the conflict, namely, the state of Israel, and the Palestinian ...

A group of Guyanese picketed the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) headquarters on Tuesday denouncing the Kenya-led United Nations Peacekeeping mission to Haiti and calling for genuine grassroots consultations to decide on a transitional government. “What we want is for general consultations in Haiti. So, far we believe that the current consultation set up by what they call the Eminent Persons Group, ...

The first all-female team is representing Guyana at the First Global Challenge annual Olympics-style robotics competition is now among the top 24 teams in the playoffs in the event being held in Singapore, St Stanislaus College statement. Ariel Taylor(Co-captain), T’Sehai Holder(Co-captain), Xaria Holder (Strategist), Lateisha MacArthur (Driver) and Italy Ton-Chung (Driver) competed against 190 other countries over the last three ...