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Guyana’s President, David Granger on Monday said waterways running through a number of countries of the Guiana Shield must be properly managed as part of a security mechanism, and that rivers must not be polluted. He was at the time addressing the 8th World Water Forum in Brasilia, Brazil “Rivers are important for the security of states. Half of the ...

Guyana will for the first time host the 2018 International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Air Transport Conference; a significant responsibility it has earned following the improvement in its compliance with ICAO. The five-day conference, which will be held in November later this year, was officially launched today at the Umana Yana, Kingston Georgetown. Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation ...

Working People’s Alliance (WPA) executive member, Professor David Hinds, who was recently sacked by the state-owned and government-controlled Guyana Chronicle newspaper on Monday objected strongly to People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) General Secretary, Amna Ally calling the spat over freedom of expression a “little issue” “First, the statement betrays a cavalier attitude to a pivotal aspect of good governance—government’s respect ...

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) on Monday- March 19, 2018- began dismantling a fence which it said was found to be encroaching on its reserve near the Lama Canal. Only the first of the two-layered zinc fence was removed. The utility company said in a statement that the fence was encroaching on 66 feet of the company’s reserve near the  Canal ...

A major fire was Monday afternoon averted in the Water Street, Kingston compound of the Guyana Power and Light Inc. as a result of quick action by staff of Power Producers and Distributors Inc; backed up by support from the Guyana Fire Service, officials said. Fire fighters were investigating that the fire started when a man was welding a truck. ...

General Secretary of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Amna Ally on Monday shrugged off suggestions by sections of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) that it should leave her party’s dominated A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). “We don’t have any deteriorating relations,” she told Demerara Waves Online News. She said “this little issue” concerning the discontinuation of columns by ...

Guyana’s Police Commissioner, David Ramnaraine on Monday justified the killing of three suspected bandits on the Georgetown seawall road although only two of them were armed and one gun was recovered. “The specific details can always be debated but at the end of the day the evidence is there that they were part of a criminal enterprise so whatever specific ...

Chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute (TTI), Dion Abdool Saturday night urged Guyanese to learn from his country’s mistakes as this country prepares to become a major oil producer. Addressing the Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc.’s (TIGI) annual fund-raising dinner held at the Pegasus Hotel, he recommended that Guyana’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GEITI) be the independent third ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) appears increasingly impatient at the way it is being treated by the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-dominated A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), saying that it was no longer prepared to tolerate being bullied; a situation that Sunday prompted at least one executive member to float the idea of leaving the coalition. “After careful consideration ...

The University of Guyana’s Department of Computer Science is laying the groundwork to shift away from teaching Information Technology to the teaching of computing from the primary school level with the aim of fostering innovation and creativity,  a co-promoter of a week of activities said. “Beyond Word and Excel, let’s make something, let’s learn some coding, let’s build something,” UG ...