The WPA yesterday said that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is unable to guarantee credible elections with the current voters’ list and called for a “workable solution” that would satisfy the main political groupings.
(Jamaica Observer) Another prominent victim of the Windrush scandal has died without receiving compensation or a personal apology from the UK government.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will today begin a week-long review of Demerara Distillers Limited’s (DDL) entire operations at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, EPA head Dr Vincent Adams disclosed yesterday.
The Government of Guyana continues to funnel money into several statutory agencies but audits of the expenditure of billions over the last decade are still pending in many cases.
Guyana last week participated in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) 2019 Global Conference and was lauded for the progress made since 2016 and also invited to be a member of a global network on contract transparency.
SBM Offshore, which has built Guyana’s first oil production platform, on Wednesday observed its sixth annual Life Day event for the first time in this country, an observance that encourages employees to adopt a culture of safety.
Small companies in the extractive industry were not required to declare payments made to the authorities when submitting information for the recent Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GY-EITI) Report because of the materiality threshold.
The Canje Secondary School’s Agriculture Science programme is to be improved through a collaboration among the ministries of education, agriculture and finance.
A man was on Friday asked to post a total of $65,000 in bail for his release after he denied stealing a bicycle and robbing and assaulting an elderly woman.
Twelve Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) staff are currently undergoing an internship at the Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE) in Costa Rica, focused on sustainable animal production.
ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s army chief of staff and the head of the northern state of Amhara were killed in two separate but related attacks when a general tried to seize control of Amhara in an attempted coup, the prime minister’s office said yesterday.
ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkey’s main opposition claimed a decisive victory yesterday in Istanbul’s re-run election, dealing one of the biggest blows to President Tayyip Erdogan during his 16 years in power and promising a new beginning in the country’s largest city.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – U.S.-bound asylum seekers will be sent back to at least two additional Mexican border cities later this week to wait for their claims to be processed, officials said, with one of the cities in a region that is among Mexico’s most chaotic and violent.