Contender for Leader of the PNCR Dr Richard Van West-Charles on Saturday launched his leadership campaign in Linden and stressed that the party needs to first focus on rebuilding itself to enable it to tackle national struggles and this is why delegates should vote for him.
Candidate for the leadership of the PNCR, Aubrey Norton says that he was on Saturday blocked by MoneyGram from receiving US$500 and does not believe it was regulatory procedures being adhered to but an abuse of this country’s anti-money laundering laws that speak to politically exposed persons.
The disclosure that the period for forensic scrutiny of US$9.5b in expenses racked up by ExxonMobil and its partners had expired without an auditing firm being appointed is scandalous and must be immediately remedied.
The spike in the price for fertilisers has resulted in Region Two rice farmers protesting and calling for immediate intervention by the Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha.
Partnering with local investor Ryan Pereira of Cataleya Energy, Trinidad and Tobago-headquartered CIC insurance brokers has entered the Guyana market and said it looks forward to helping develop the industry here as it taps into the oil and gas market.
Following Nomination Day on Friday, the PNCR’s five-member Elections Accreditation Committee will today meet to finalize the process for submission of the list of nominees for the posts of Leader of the Party and executives to serve for the next two years.
Fifty-six persons recently benefited from microbiology training as a result of a collaboration between the University of Guyana’s Berbice Campus (UGBC) and the Nand Persaud Group of Companies.
The Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) yesterday issued a public advisory over the highly contagious African Swine Fever (ASF) which was recently detected in the Dominican Republic.
A West Coast Berbice (WCB) man was last evening fatally beaten while his son sustained head and other injuries after they were attacked by five villagers from a nearby village who claimed that the older man had broken into their house and stolen jewellery.
As it denounced government’s negligence in failing to meet the deadline for the audit of over US$9 billion in expenses claimed by ExxonMobil, anti-corruption watchdog Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc.
A New and United Guyana (ANUG) has called for inquests into the deaths of four men who were killed by members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) within the last two months.
Civil society group Article 13 has issued a call for the government to ban the exportation of logs and provide full disclosure on foreign companies working in Guyana’s forestry sector.
By Baytoram Ramharack
On July 9, 1999, University of the West Indies lecturer Tyrone Ferguson launched his book To Survive Sensibly or to Court Heroic Death: The Political and Economic Management of Guyana 1965-1985, which examined Forbes Burnham’s political tenure in office.
The Chief Education Officer Dr. Marcel Hutson on Friday announced that the programme to inoculate children ages 5 to 11 against COVID-19 will commence this Friday.
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.
President Irfaan Ali on Friday said discussions are ongoing on promised wages and salary increases for public servants and an announcement would be made very soon.