Strike action by factory workers at the Uitvlugt estate yesterday forced the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) to implement an emergency plan to save approximately $32 million in sugarcane.
The mounting accusations about Chinese nationals here in Guyana being part of elaborate money laundering and bribery schemes in exchange for investment opportunities “should be investigated by security agencies”, President Irfaan Ali said yesterday.
After months of negotiations, discussions for the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) between the government and China Railway First Group Limited (CRFGL) have ended in deadlock.
Residents of Buxton yesterday peppered a high-level government delegation, led by Prime Minister Mark Phillips, with a flurry complaints on deplorable streets, the need for a farm-to-market road and drainage issues.
As of June 30th, China Harbour and Engineering Corporation (CHEC) has completed all major works at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), where an expansion project has been underway for almost a decade.
President Irfaan Ali yesterday appointed four of the five members of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) and emphasised the crucial role of oversight of the public procurement process as Guyana has embarked on a transformation phase.
-hoping to target 30% of UK prawns market
The US$25m Hubu Aquafarms project aims to revolutionise aquaculture here with high technology and organic harvests and it hopes to eventually net 30% of the UK’s prawns market.
After years in the pipeline, a US$106.3 million contract was yesterday signed between the government and Indian company Ashoka Build Con for a road link between Ogle, East Coast Demerara and Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD) and it could be finished in two years.
Government this afternoon signed the contract for the construction of the long awaited road link between Ogle, East Coast Demerara and Eccles, East Bank Demerara.
A proposal to bring immediate relief to the decades-old drainage problems of flood-prone South Georgetown was yesterday unveiled to residents during a multi-agency government outreach.
Acting Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken yesterday said he was unaware that ranks from the force had trailed Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Monday.
The partnership between Guyanese manufacturer DuraVilla and Barbados’ National Housing Corporation (NHC) is set to have spinoff effects for businesses here as well as on the island, the company’s Chief Executive Officer Rafeek Khan says.
Model homes constructed from recycled materials as well as 3D printing are among the innovative housing solution expected to be on display when the Ministry of Housing and Water hosts its International Building Expo next month.
Sixteen days after the body of Reonol Williams went missing from an accident scene, the driver of the motor car that struck him yesterday took investigators to the area where he dumped the man’s body.
-police response criticized
A brutal attack by a gang of men on Saturday night claimed the life of a Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara (ECD) mason and left a shop owner with damage in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.