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Digicel (Guyana) on Thursday – International Literacy Day 2016- helped to reinforce the importance of reading by providing assistance to the St. Cuthbert’s Mission Nursery School, Mahaica River. “Today we are spending some time with these little ones to show them the importance of reading. The staff members are here today to give back to the community by interacting with ...

President David Granger on Thursday criticized the now aborted removal of a television news anchor  at Guyana’s National Communications Network (NCN) from reading the news because she is pregnant and he has described as inhumane the one month suspension of a Sport Editor without pay. “We didn’t think it would have come to do this because as I am concerned ...

In the face of threats of legal action challenging a deal to rent a pharmaceutical bond from a city businessman’s company, the Guyana government on Thursday caved into widespread public criticism and deemed it “undesirable” and said it was searching for a new facility. “Cabinet was engaged in full and thorough discussions on the issue of the storage of government ...

Guyana has been advised that ExxonMobil’s latest exploratory well offshore Guyana named SkipJack has turned up dry, according to usually reliable sources. The Ministry of Natural Resources said that ExxonMobil, which is a major partner in the local subsidiary of Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, communicated SkipJack’s poor showing to Guyanese authorities. The Ministry of Natural Resources was informed by ExxonMobil ...

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon on Thursday said he had no part to play in informing city businessman Lawrence “Larry” Singh that government needed to rent a pharmaceutical bond. “If I told Mr. Larry Singh? Joseph Harmon? No,” Harmon said when asked by Demerara Waves Online News asked him whether he told Singh that government needed a bond to store ...

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo on Wednesday ordered the Chief Executive Officer of the National Communications Network (NCN), Lennox Cornette to apologise for using her pregnancy as the basis for removing her from anchoring the 6 O’clock news. “It agonises me to get involved in what is an NCN management matter but, as a journalist and as a parent, I refuse ...

Now that all of Bai Shan Lin’s concessions have been repossessed by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC), that regulatory agency is about to sell already harvested logs to help recover some of the debts owed by that company that claims it has registered a loss for more than 20 years. The total size of the concessions is 680,000 hectares including joint ...

Mining camps in the Upper Mazaruni are running low on food, fuel and other supplies, and secondary school students have been unable to travel to Bartica to begin the new school term because a partially submerged ‘draga’ is blocking the Mazaruni River channel. The mining raft has been  stuck  at the Pirimap Falls for the past three months. Crown Mining Supplies ...

Bourda Market area fruit and vegetable vendors were Wednesday warned by Town Clerk, Royston King that they would be banned from selling on Robb Street if they do not keep the area clean and continue to encroach on the roadway and obstruct vehicular traffic. “If we return after we would have lifted the suspension and find people dumping in places ...

More than 100 vendors and transporters of agricultural produce were Tuesday blocked from selling on Robb Street between Alexander and Bourda Street, resulting in the potential loss of millions of dollars in agricultural produce. Acting Mayor, Sherod Duncan said he “is unaware of what led to the decision, but I am looking into it.” Vendors said Town Clerk, Royston King ...