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An MMC Security Guard shot and killed one of his colleagues at the security guard’s service’s headquarters at Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara. The incident occurred at about 8 O’clock Saturday morning. The victim has been identified as 36-year old Vibert Verwayne of 710 Block 8, Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo. Police investigators said the incident stemmed from an altercation over the assailant’s ...

Guyana’s Ministry of Natural Resources on Friday said “intensified” efforts would be made to remove a mining raft, popularly called a draga, that has been blocking the main channel of the Mazaruni River, resulting in difficulties in transporting people and vital food and mining supplies. The ministry did not name the mining company, Crown Mining, but said the “responsible mining operator” ...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will be conducting an appraisal of several projects in Guyana in the coming months as it seeks to return here for the first time in 16 years, possibly with the financing of a deepwater port that could be a springboard for the eventual construction of the Lethem-Georgetown road. EIB Vice President, Pim van Ballekom noted ...

Guyana has asked the Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, to assess the feasibility of expanding the coastal fibre-optic network to include other areas of the country, even as it downplayed concerns that that company might be engaged in espionage. Head of Guyana’s E-Government Unit, Floyd Levi said the assessment would determine the cost and types of technologies of expanding the US$32 ...

The Guyana government and the National Insurance Scheme on Friday inked an agreement to re-capitalise the cash-strapped social security institution , the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), which had invested in the now failed Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO). The first payment of $317,359,002.94 will be made to NIS in January 2017. Finance Minister, Winston Jordan signed an Agreement with the ...

Education Minister Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine on Friday called on teachers to stop beating students  and instead establish a counselling mechanism within the education system. Delivering remarks at the Education Month rally held at D’urban Park, Dr. Roopnaraine said that corporal punishment must be ousted from schools by “taking the stick and the wild-cane out of the school.” He stated that discipline must ...

Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson has announced that a generator set from the Onverwagt power station in West Berbice was due to arrive in Bartica on Friday, to boost power generation in the Region Seven community. The Government Information Agency (GINA) said township is set to receive improved electricity distribution by Sunday, September 18. Recently the Bartica Township was plagued ...

Ogle Airport Inc. on Thursday said that its lease agreement with the Guyana government only provides for a review panel, a mechanism that Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson said a legal consultant has recommended. Asked how alleged anti-competitive behaviours by the Correias at the Eugene F. Correia “Ogle” Airport are being addressed, Patterson said a review of the lease agreement ...

The Guyana government is moving to purchase a new dredge that would deepen, among other waterways, the Demerara River, Public Infrastructure Minister, David Patterson said Thursday. For several years, shipping companies and their umbrella organisation, the Shipping Association of Guyana (SAG), have been lobbying government to dredge the Demerara River to accommodate larger ships with more cargo and so lower ...

Slow implementation of multi-million dollar projects is dogging the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, partly because contractors are overburdened with projects and the unavailability of the required number of engineers. Public Infrastructure Minister, David Patterson said that up to August 31, 2016 GYD$11 billion of the GYD$24.28 billion set aside for capital works of the Public Sector Investment Programme were spent. ...