Labour and materials shortages are being blamed for significant delays in the construction of the Bamia Primary School which was controversially awarded to a company of entertainers and sports persons with no prior experience.
Retired Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Ministry of Legal Affairs, Joylyn Nestor-Burrowes admitted to breaching the Procurement Act in 2019 by allowing a contractor to execute works in the absence of a written contract.
The proposed Barbados-Guyana Food Terminal is currently awaiting approval from the Town and Country Planning of Barbados, according to that country’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Indar Weir.
Preliminary data from the concluding Census 2022 have revealed significant shifts in the population, Guyana’s Chief Statistician, Errol La Cruez said while cautioning that data collected to date is in the analysis and verification process.
Since the establishment of the 12th parliament, the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources, has only met once and the purpose for that meeting was to appoint its Chairman and Vice Chairman.
Citing high production costs, rice farmers across the country are still to be convinced that government’s recent announcement that they will be paid at least $4,000 per bag of paddy will bring any relief to them.
Developers of a mega green-energy project in Region 10 were earlier this month served with a notice of termination by the state holding company, National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), in which it was explained that the entity had failed to deliver its objective as outlined in its business plan.
A visiting delegation from Belize’s Mayan community has said that there are a number of shortfalls in Guyana’s Amerindian Act, which they hope to learn from and improve on in the legislation currently being drafted for that country’s Indigenous people.
Trinidad and Tobago is working to amend archaic laws which will finally allow Guyana’s honey to transit the twin-island republic after years of fruitless deliberations at CARICOM’s trade council.
Government is mulling a day-to-day reporting system for foreign currency at commercial banks, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday, in order to have an understanding behind the alleged short-age.
Even as Guyana mulls alternative options to having the export market for catfish (Siluriformes) to the United States reopened, authorities here are currently awaiting a follow-up technical meeting with the US Food Safety and Inspection Service (US FSIS).
Another lengthy closure of the Demerara Harbour Bridge is scheduled for March, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill last night announced as he inspected the current emergency work being carried out there.
The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) has initiated the required process to seek assistance from the Chinese Embassy on the ongoing probe into the $4.1 billion money laundering case allegedly involving 22 Chinese companies.
By David Papannah
Central Bank Governor, Dr Gobind Ganga, has refuted reports of a shortage of foreign currency, specifically the US dollar, at local banks, following complaints from the business community.
Years after a decision was taken to relocate the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission’s offices (GGMC) to the controversial building at High and Princes streets in Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, rehabilitation has commenced in preparation for this, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat has confirmed.
Population size was a key determining factor in government’s methodology for the distribution of money earned from Guyana’s sale of carbon credits, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo explained yesterday as he announced the first payment of $4.7 billion or US$22 million to 241 indigenous communities.
The parent company of Courts Guyana – Unicomer, yesterday announced a $25 billion (around US$120m) commercial investment for the East Bank of Demerara which will see the construction of a mega shopping complex and hotel along with a logistics yard to support small companies.
Three years after entering into petroleum production, Guyana has met less than half of the needed technical skills in the areas of engineering and environmental specialists and there is still a large deficit in relation to seafarers.
A Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara man died yesterday afternoon after he was trapped in his burning house having gone back in to search for his grandson.