If the Guyana Elections Commissions (GECOM) suspends the current national house-to-house registration process by the end of this month, the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) believes that there will be enough time to facilitate elections by the end of October.
The Ministry of Natural Resources will be signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Board (PTCCB) and other stakeholders to make it harder for persons to import mercury as the country aims to reduce its wanton use in the mining sector.
There are over 25,000 active applications for house lots and the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) is working to clear the backlog, according to its Chief Executive Officer Lelon Saul.
The newly-commissioned Valmiki College for Business and Technology is aiming to equip youths with the skills needed to enter the working world.
The Guyana Prison Service last night said prison wardens were forced to put out a fire that was set in the security block of the New Amsterdam Prison.
A $1.8 million facility for triage has been commissioned at the Port Mourant Hospital earlier this week so as to improve the comfort of visitors to the institution.
With funding from the Ministry of Communities, Georgetown’s City Council has commenced rehabilitation of main access road and the internal road network for the East Ruimveldt Market.
Luther Orlando Charles, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Domestic Airways Incorporated, was yesterday given a week to pay a $200,000 fine for failing to provide an Occupational Safety and Health Officer with information about the accident that led to the death of pilot Randy Liverpool.
Two new ambulances, expected to be put into operation immediately, were officially handed over to the Regional Health Officers (RHOs) of Region Three and Region Four on Wednesday.
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Amid growing international criticism over the wildfires raging through the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday admitted farmers could be illegally setting the rainforest ablaze but told foreign powers not to interfere.
(Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline’s experimental HIV injection is as effective when given every other month as monthly, according to a study, a convenience that could help the British drugmaker in its battle against a rival drug from Gilead Sciences.GSK’s
Eleven Guyana Defence Force (GDF) scholarship awardees are due to travel soon to the People’s Republic of China to begin their studies.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian state oil major Rosneft has become the main trader of Venezuelan crude, shipping oil to buyers in China and India and helping Caracas offset the loss of traditional dealers who are avoiding it for fear of breaching U.S.
Nine companies have bid to provide security services for schools in Georgetown.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Action movie hero Dwayne Johnson, star of the “Jumanji” and “Fast and Furious” franchises, topped the annual list of the world’s highest-paid actors, Forbes magazine reported on Wednesday.
(Trinidad Express) Gunmen showed no regard for the cries of four children to spare their father when they came after 30-year-old Akil Sutherland on Tuesday evening.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday morning on an indictment in connection with his upcoming criminal trial, a spokesman for the Manhattan district attorney said on Thursday.
Two Bourda Market vendors have each been ordered to serve 10 hours of community service after a long simmering dispute erupted into physical violence.
An Independence Boulevard youth was granted bail on Monday after he denied a charge of robbing a man of almost $300,000 worth of cash and items.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House will not move forward with plans to cut billions of dollars in foreign aid, U.S.
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