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President Irfaan Ali on Sunday said government was turning to Guatemala, Latin America’s second largest sugar producer, to revive the ailing Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) which he insisted would not be closed because of its socio-economic and financial importance. “That is why Guatemala is also coming in to help us.  We are not going to reinvent the wheel so sugar ...

Ahead of the reduction of more COVID-19 measures, President Irfaan Ali on Sunday said arriving passengers at Guyana’s two international airports would no longer have to fill out COVID location forms. He said passengers no longer needed to fill up COVID locator forms and have them stamped at the Health Desk before going to immigration, in response to complaints by ...

President Irfaan Ali was Sunday tight-lipped on reasons for rejecting opposition nominees to sit on the governing board of the Natural Resources Fund (NRF), suggesting that the parliamentary majoritarian process in the appointments committee in the end held sway in favour of one of government’s nominees. “The parliamentary process is that the committee selects someone of standing in a society ...

President Irfaan Ali on Sunday appeared to hinge any  chance of power sharing  to the opposition agreeing to free and fair elections, just days after People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Leader Aubrey Norton pegged it to a clean voters list. Against the background of  a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded report recommending that Guyana should move towards power-sharing ...

President Irfaan Ali on Sunday announced that he plans to meet with marijuana farmers to encourage them to get into the cultivation of high-value hemp. ” I intend to have a meeting very soon with all the marijuana growers in this country. I intend to have a meeting and to let them understand that there is a viable future in ...

Mr. Joseph Harmon has resigned as a parliamentarian for A Partnership for National Unity++Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC),  well-placed sources confirmed on Saturday. The resignation  was submitted to House Speaker Manzoor Nadir and a copy was provided to Representative of the APNU+AFC  list of candidates, David Granger. “I have given this decision my deepest thoughts and am of the view that ...

President Irfaan Ali has recommended that the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Central American Integration System (SICA) combine their efforts to maximise food production in the region. He also proposed a joint meeting between the Central American Agricultural Council and CARICOM’s  Agricultural Ministerial Task Force “so that we can marry the priorities to establish a time-bound framework that is ...

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said a 45-year old man of North East La Penitence was arrested Wednesday during an operation on West Coast Demerara and East Bank Essequibo, In custody is Ian Griffith because, according to the anti-drug agency, he had 2.330 kilogrammes of cocaine in his possession, The agency said he was nabbed during an operation between Ruby, ...

ExxonMobil plans to drill 20 additional exploration wells offshore Guyana, as the company gathers more seismic data from other discoveries and plans to link oil producing vessels to nearby wells in order to guarantee a steady flow of crude, the company’s  Senior Vice President Neil Chapman said. Speaking during a question and answer session at Investor Day 2022 held on ...

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Wednesday slammed the Irfaan Ali-led administration for shutting out the opposition from the Natural Resource Fund’s (NRF) Board, dashing hopes of keeping an eye on how the ‘oil money’ would be spent. “By these actions, the PPP has shown again its total lack of interest in transparency, accountability and inclusivity. It continues to ...