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Just days after the World Bank announced that it has debarred a Spanish consultant because of corrupt practice, the Guyana government on Wednesday said the man was hired by the then A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition-led administration in early 2020 and was effectively fired eight months later. The Ministry of Natural Resources said Mr. Carlos Barberán ...

Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh on Tuesday lauded the New Building Society (NBS) for taking the bold step of leading the way in being the first financial institution to implement the use of Mobile Money Guyana (MMG) for mortgage payments. The Minister was at the time speaking at the launch ceremony held at the NBS Head Office on Avenue of ...

The University of Guyana (UG), in collaboration with Banks DIH Ltd., has been making progress in baking bread with 25 percent less wheaten flour,  according to Head of UG’s Institute of Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Patsy Francis. She said tests were carried out using cassava flour and sweet potato flour and so far there is a preference for the latter. ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Wednesday declined to comment on the fate of the nine Alliance For Change (AFC) parliamentarians after that party withdraws from the coalition with his People’s National Congress Reform-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). “When we are formally communicated with , we will then make the decisions as to what we will do. There are ...

The prime suspect in the stabbing death of his child’s mother was Tuesday morning found hanging in an abandoned house in Wismar, Linden, police said. The Commander of Regional Police Division #10, Mr Hugh Winter named the man as Leseton Baynes. The Police were looking for Leseton Baynes following the stabbing death of 22-year-old Kelly Charlotte, a teacher of 790 ...

Guyana on Tuesday rejected Venezuela’s arguments that the United Kingdom (UK) is a necessary party to this former British colony’s case on the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award, and asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to focus the conduct of the arbitrators. Venezuela, for its part, wants the ICJ to find that Guyana’s case is inadmissible because ...

Police in Linden were Monday morning continuing their manhunt for the prime suspect in the killing of a teacher after she broke up their relationship. Dead is 22-year Kelly Charlotte who lived at 790 One Mile Extention, Wismar, Linden. Police said they are looking for the son’s father, a 28-year-old truck driver of One Mile Extention Wismar, Linden. Charlotte was ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall says the Chief Immigration Officer and the Commissioner of Registration of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) cannot collaborate to remove the names of non-resident Guyanese from the national database of registrants. “He fails to appreciate that insofar as that Regulation authorises the removal of names from the National Register of Registrants (NRR) on the basis of ...

The World Bank Group has announced the three-year debarment with conditional release of an individual consultant in connection with a corrupt practice as part of the Petroleum Governance and Management Project in Guyana. The debarment makes Mr. Carlos Barberán Diez, a Spanish national, and his controlled affiliates, AC Oil & Gas SL and AC Oil & Gas Emirates LLC, ineligible ...

Ilan Goldfajn was elected president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on Sunday during a Special Meeting of the Bank’s Board of Governors. The meeting was held at IDB Headquarters in Washington, D.C., with delegations attending virtually and in person, the hemispheric bank said in a statement. Nominated by Brazil, Goldfajn will take office for a five-year term on December ...