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The rice industry has exceeded 300,000 tonnes of rice as the first crop production for 2014 and could surpass 600,000 tonnes by December 2014.  Minister of Agriculture Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, proudly made the announcement today during the launch of the five new subjects earmarked for the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) Examinations in 2015. Minister Ramsammy ...

Funds from a Chile programme aimed at boosting South-South cooperation are to be used to craft Guyana’s eco-tourism marketing strategy and help the poor and vulnerable in communities rich in eco-tourism potential develop sustainable businesses. Tourism Minister, Irfan Ali said that US$80,000 of the US$200,000 grant would be spent of developing the strategy to push Guyana as a nature tourism ...

Local Government Minister Norman Whittaker Monday afternoon said that Royston King’s appointment as Town Clerk is illegal and he accused King of being “guilty of subordination”. Speaking at a press conference this afternoon at the Ministry’s boardroom at Fort Street , Kingston , Whittaker said that King as well as City Mayor Hamilton Green , should await the outcome of ...

Tension boiled over and tempers flared Monday afternoon over the two persons purporting to be Town Clerk of the Georgetown Municipality. Moments after Royston King took up his seat as Town Clerk,  the ministerial appointed Town Clerk, Carol Ryan-Sooba turned up and had a chair placed in front of King to preside over the Council’s statutory meeting. She promptly seized ...

Former South American beauty queen, Carolan Lynch was Monday morning again freed of the charge of a murder of her wealthy husband, Farouk Razac, seven years ago. The decision to discharge the case was made at the Georgetown Magistrates Court after it was found there was insufficient evidence for her to face trial by a judge and jury. Chief Magistrate ...

In the latest of what appears to be a series of violent domestic disputes at Port Kaituma, North West District, a man late Sunday night allegedly burnt down his house after a quarrel with his wife. Initial reports are that the woman, Evelyn “Rasta Evelyn”Williams, claimed that the man, Eustace Simon, set the house ablaze after yet another disagreement.  Neither ...

Despite Guyana being ordered by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to repay more than US$6 million to a Surinamese beverage manufacturer because an import duty is discriminatory, the opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Sunday vowed not to approve an amendment unless the private sector was consulted and a proper  environmental tax was tabled. “Caricom (Caribbean Community) ...

The Peoples Progressive Party’s (PPP) call for Georgetown’s councillors to be booted out and replaced with an Interim Management Committee (IMC) appear to be hot air because there is a pending court case against the establishment of an un-elected body to run the city’s affairs. Opposition politicians in and out of City Hall on Sunday also said even if the ...

In the wake of several weeks of uproar and legal wrangling between the Town Clerk, Carol Sooba and most of the Councillors of Georgetown, the governing Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) on Saturday called for the Council to be removed and replaced with an Interim Management Committee (IMC). “The PPP demands the removal of Hamilton Green and the entire City Council ...

The University of Guyana (UG) will shortly begin consultations about plans to increase tuition fees t cater for the depreciation of the local dollar during the past 19 years. Outgoing UG Pro Chancellor Dr. Prem Misir preferred to say that the tuition fees would most likely be “adjusted” rather than increased depending on the outcome of the consultations. “What we ...