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Guyana is preparing to sell rice to Panama, amid lingering uncertainty about the future of the lucrative Venezuelan market. President Donald Ramotar told a news conference on Friday that details about the Panamanian rice market would be announced by Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy. A few weeks ago I had a meeting with the President of Panama (Juan Carlos ...

In the face of a warning that the University of Guyana (UG) would have to shut down operations if the Ministry of Finance does not disburse money for student loans, President Donald Ramotar on Friday assured that the issue would be resolved before the new academic year begins. “The matter will be resolved before the next two weeks,” he told ...

Agents of the United States (US) Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are expected to assist their Guyanese law enforcement counterparts in studying the implications of a homemade Self-Propelled Semi-Submersible (SSPS) vessel that was made in the Guyanese jungle to smuggle tons of cocaine to other parts of the world. President Donald Ramotar announced the DEA’s involvement at a news conference at ...

House Speaker, Raphael Trotman has given the green-light for the opposition-sponsored no-confidence motion against the government to be debated when parliament resumes less than two months from now, but President Donald Ramotar gave on Friday gave no clear indication of whether he would call elections before. “I like to make decisions when the time has come for me to make ...

Guyanese soldiers and agents of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) believe that a well-organised group was behind the construction of a semi-submersible vessel that would have been used to smuggle a huge amount of cocaine from Guyana on a Trans-Atlantic route. No illegal item was found aboard the vessel and no arrest was reported, CANU said. Demerara Waves Online ...

Guyanese law enforcement authorities believe that a cocaine-smuggling submarine found in the Waini area, North West District was made in Guyana to move large amounts of cocaine to Africa and other ‎parts of the world.Officials said the 65-feet long by 12 feet wide and seven feet deep semi-submersible was also fitte‎d with a diesel engine. No cocaine was found in ...

Rescuers intensified a search Thursday for the two men who remained missing after a Motor Tanker ‘Swift Dolphin’ capsized off the Corentyne Coast in Guyana waters, the Transport and Harbours Department said in a statement. The vessel, which was sailing to Georgetown from Suriname, capsized on Tuesday August 12, 2014 around 21:10 hrs about 49 nautical miles at St. Andrews ...

A threatening behavior charge against the man, who was accused of firing a single gunshot during the People National Congress Reform’s (PNCR) 18th Biennial Congress last month, was Thursday dismissed because the lone witness did not appear to testify. City Magistrate, Geeta Chandan-Edmond dismissed the case against Linden Primo after the complainant, Akeshaw Barker, did not appear in court on ...

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Dr. Steve Surujbally on Thursday challenged the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to produce evidence that there have been irregularities resulting in an increase in the number of registrants by 78,000 persons. But PPP Civic General Secretary, Clement Rohee said his party does not have to provide the list of persons because the party ...

The two seamen, who were aboard the now capsized Surinamese-owned Motor Tanker Swift Dolphin, were Thursday afternoon being transported to Georgetown for medical attention but their two colleagues were trapped in the vessel and believed dead, according to well-placed sources. The survivors have been positively identified as Augustus Persaud and Anthony Sukhdeo. Persaud was injured but his condition is not ...