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Guyanese living along the densely populated coastline were Saturday warned to brace themselves for flooding due to a combination of heavy rainfall and spring tide. “We advise that wet conditions with possible flooding in low lying areas that wet conditions with possible flooding in low lying areas when rain is coupled with spring tide event will prevail,” the Ministry of ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) says it is prepared to pass the hydro-electric bill it opposed on Thursday but that it needs more guarantees before it okays a motion to raise the debt ceiling.  At a news conference on Friday party executive Moses Nagamootoo said they had indicated their support for the bill Hydro Electric Power (Amendment) Bill 2013 but ...

Regional airline LIAT on Saturday announced that it would shortly commence scheduled services to and from the Ogle International Airport in Guyana. Effective Monday July 22, LIAT will operate a daily flight from Barbados to Ogle with a daily return service. Flight LI 521 will depart the Grantley Adams International Airport at 12:30 pm daily, arriving at Ogle at 2:20 pm. The return ...

A woman was Friday night stabbed by her common-law husband and admitted a patient at the Port Kaituma Hospital, authorities said. The incident occurred at the Port Kaituma bus park. The woman should have been air-dashed to the city for treatment of stab wounds to one of her arms and her abdomen.  At the centre of the dispute, is her ...

President Donald Ramotar has decried the parliamentary opposition’s use of its majority to vote against a bill and a motion tied to the Amaila Hydropower Project as an “act of terrorism” against national development. This is according to a statement released by the Government Information Agency (GINA) Friday evening. The entire statement is reproduced below. My fellow Guyanese, Following our ...

LIAT on Saturday explained that its daytime flights between Guyana and Barbados are continuing as normal while the two night-time flights that have been cancelled will resume on August 1. LIAT spokesman, Desmond Brown told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com) that flight LI 521 is scheduled to depart Barbados at 12:30 pm and arrive in Guyana at 2:30 PM. Then flight ...

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is providing loans totalling USD 65 million dollars to four shareholder governments of regional airline LIAT to assist with the purchase of aircraft under a Fleet Modernisation Project, the airline said in a statement. The loan agreements provide for the loans to be on-lent to, and repaid by, LIAT over athirteen-year period, following a grace ...

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Friday dismissed efforts by the political opposition to link approval for the Amaila Falls hydro power project to governance issues on grounds that the generation facility is a “national” matter. Chairman of the PSC’s Communications sub-committee, Kit Nascimento said the umbrella business organisation wanted the opposition to detail aspects of the 165 megawatt facility ...

Leader of the Opposition David Granger says they are not opposed to the rejected hydro-electric bill being returned to the House this session but that the government needs to move on the measures adopted by the National Assembly to ensure good governance. The combined opposition Thursday night voted against the Hydro-Electric Power (Amendment) Bill and a motion seeking to raise ...

(MONGABAY.COM).-Scientists have described a new species of poison dart frog after discovering it during a study to determine the impact of tourism on biodiversity in a tract of rainforest known as “The Lost World” in Guyana. The scientists named the frog Allobates amissibilis — in Latin, “that may be lost” — in recognition of its home, which was the set ...