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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, July 10, 2023: The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) on Monday announced it has approved a US$76.2 million loan to the Government of Guyana for the Guyana Water Supply Improvement Project under which the water supply systems serving five coastal communities will undergo major upgrades. The infrastructure development initiative involves the construction of five water treatment plants, complete with ...

There are growing calls inside the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) for that political party to hold long-overdue meetings of its second highest decision-making body in between congresses. But party Chairman Shurwayne Holder said uncertainty about contesting the Local Government Elections was one of the major reasons for the almost year-long delay in holding General Council. “A General Council is ...

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will by next year establish an aviation school to train military and civilian pilots for the local and Caribbean markets, President Irfaan Ali announced on Saturday. “I have authorised work to be concluded before the third quarter of this year to have a full presentation to the Defence Board of an aviation school-military and civil ...

The High Court has ruled that the police detention of a lawyer because she advised her client to remain silent was unconstitutional and the seizure of her cellular phone was wrongful, Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes said Saturday. Attorney-at-Law Tamieka Clarke last November sued police for in excess of GY$100,000 in damages but the c0urt has pushed back its decision on the ...

President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that government would be making available 25,000 acres of land in East Berbice to increase rice production for the poultry industry with the aim of increasing chicken production for stockpile and the production of sausage and nuggets. Addressing poultry producers, he said Guyana hoped to team up with neighbouring Suriname which would also be ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday said he confronted  United States Democratic Party’s top leader in the US House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries about refusing to meet with Guyana government representatives to hear their perspectives on claims of racism against Afro-Guyanese. “I sought to educate Congressman Jeffries about Guyana and about the narrative that may have misled him so I was ...

President Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that government would import and distribute free vaccines to small and medium-scale poultry farmers to help prevent wider spread of the deadly poultry virus, Inclusion Body Hepatitis (IPH). He also told hundreds of farmers at a meeting held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) that government was importing foreign chicken for free distribution ...

Two firefighters were injured Thursday night while battling a blaze at the Charity Market, Essequibo Coast, the Guyana Fire Service said. The identities of those in injured were not disclosed, but the Fire Service said an officer received a mild electrical shock and was rushed to a hospital where he was undergoing treatment. Another fireman was also injured at the ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday held talks with United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on a number of concerns about governance, corruption and poverty and the need for electoral reforms; talks that International Relations Professor Mark Kirton  hoped could lead to dialogue on major issues. Mr Norton said he told Mr Blinken that Guyana was virtually a one-party ...

Longtime People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member Heston Bostwick says two allegations of corrupt transactions have been concocted as part of a plot to ensure he is not picked from the list of Proportionally Representative (PR) elected persons to sit in the Georgetown City Council. “That is where the issue lies. When I learnt that I was not being selected ...