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Guyana Monday morning signed the United Nations Global Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations. Signing the accord at exactly 11 AM (Guyana Time) was Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador, George Talbot. The Guyana government has, however, faced a major stumbling block in getting domestic arms control legislation passed because the opposition earlier this year blocked amendments ...

A number of men staged a daring Monday morning robbery at the Wismar Post Office, carting off an undisclosed sum of money.An official of the Guyana Post Office confirmed that a robbery has occurred and the headquarters was awaiting more information. The amount of cash and other valuables carted off was not immediately known.The robbers also took away an an ...

The Guyana government on Saturday sought to explain how a company, whose principal player is bosom friend of former President Bharrat Jagdeo, was granted licenses for radio licenses.

The Grace Kennedy Financial Group plans to expand its banking and insurance operations to the rest of the Caribbean but much depend on regulatory approval by the Bank of Guyana, a top official said Saturday night.

The constitutionality of the granting of 22 radio and television licenses by then President Bharrat Jagdeo is being challenged in the High Court on grounds that he handed them out largely to his political and close associates in breach of an agreement with the opposition.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee faces questions on the security allocations. The National Assembly Friday Night approved the $17.5B allocation for the security sector without amendments despite a lack of support from the APNU for sums budgeted for the Home Affairs Ministry. The Alliance For Change had proposed several cuts under the home ministry but at the time of the ...

The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) on Friday called on the Guyana government to overhaul the system for granting radio and television licenses, as condemnation intensifies that most pro-government and ruling party persons were issued licenses a few short months before Bharrat Jagdeo departed the presidency.

L to R Director of the Guyana Tourism Authority, Indranauth Haralsingh; Michelle Kalamandeen of the Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society, Dianne Mc Turk of Karanambo, Nirvana Persaud of the National Trust and Shawn Mc Grath of Atta Lodge. Guyana has, for the second consecutive year, emerged as the biggest winners at the 2013 Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO)/TravelMole Sustainable Tourism Awards, having been awarded three ...

Mr. Yesu Persaud Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) and subsidiaries have announced the group’s results for the financial year 2012, the company said in a statement.

Banks DIH Limited has begun its multi-million dollar modernization of its brewery at Thirst Park to produce large quantities and higher quality beer.