David Papannah

For miles, acres of rice fields and farmland greet the main access road along the Essequibo Coast, serving as testament that the region is an agricultural powerhouse.

Government’s partnership with Barbados to train 6,000 Guyanese for the hospitality sector is intended to meet needs of the industry by ensuring a skilled workforce is ready as several major hotel projects are in the works, according to Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Oneidge Walrond, who says the administration’s plan for a local hospitality institute is also still on the cards.

With China Railway Group Limited found to be the “most capable partner” for the development of the Amaila Falls Hydro Project (AFHP), Cabinet has given its no-objection to the Office of the Prime Minister to engage the Chinese company on the venture, which is expected to see Guyanese accessing cheaper electricity.

Work to restore Georgetown’s City Hall is scheduled to begin tomorrow and Trinidadian contractor Fides Ltd has said Guyanese will make up a large part of its labour force.

As ExxonMobil seeks to win approval for its fourth well development at Yellowtail, one of its senior officials told Monday’s information session at the Umana Yana that the company takes the environment seriously and even the spilling of a teaspoon of oil will be reported to the authorities.

The lifeless body of a Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo shop owner was yesterday morning discovered bound and gagged and his home ransacked.

Even as many remain hesitant about being vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret’d) Egbert Field firmly believes being vaccinated saved his life when he tested positive for the virus.

An accident at Branch Road, Mahaicony claimed the lives of a farmer and his friend on Saturday night after their vehicle plunged into a trench.

The police shot and killed the two suspects in the robbery and murder of 19-year-old Joshua Denny on Saturday evening.

Receiving his pension from the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) 26 years after retiring is a day Mon Repos resident, Shamean Matthews, thought would never come.

The five pairs of elevators installed in the overhead pedestrian crossings along the East Bank of Demerara remain inoperable.

Due to the uncertainty over what is included in the Region Four 2022 Budget, Regional Chairman Daniel Seeram is mulling a caucus with councillors to determine the way forward.

Once bustling with bars, snackettes and miners, the landing which serves as the core of the gold mining community in the Marudi Mountains in the Rupununi has become eerily desolate – a ghost town filled with nothing but empty shacks and a handful of persons as a years-long stalemate between prospectors and the regulatory authorities continues.

A compromised drainage system is suspected to be the primary cause of the recent flash flooding in Matthews Ridge, Region One, after the reservoir belonging to Chinese-owned Guyana Manganese Inc (GMI) collapsed, Regional Chairman Brentnol Ashley said yesterday.

A Vreed-en-Hoop boat builder was fatally stabbed on Saturday night and his brother is hospitalised after they were stabbed by a man who was denied permission to use a passageway at the Vreed-en-Hoop dockyard, West Coast Demerara (WCD).

Maintaining that they were given short notice to prepare and submit projects for the upcoming 2022 budget, Region Four APNU+AFC councillors yesterday slammed Regional Executive Officer (REO) Donald Gajraj for failing to inform them in a timely manner and accused him of disenfranchising residents from the process. 

With the ban on the export of catfish (Siluriformes) to the United States still in effect, discussions between technical officers here and in the US are ongoing in an effort to resume the trade.

Hoping to help boost capacity of its aquaculture investments and seafood processing standards, local seafood company Pritipaul Singh Investments (PSI) is seeking to tap into India’s vast knowledge in the area and has begun discussions on collaborative efforts.

Shouting through their masks “Our body! Our choice!” and “No to mandatory vaccination,” scores of persons yesterday protested government’s COVID-19 vaccination policy which requires those seeking walk-in services at state agencies to show proof of inoculation.

Two Region Four Alliance for Change (AFC) Councillors are positioning themselves to table a motion of no confidence against the APNU Chairman, Daniel Seeram.