The Members of the Natural Resource Fund Board as well as the Public Accountability and Oversight Committee of the Board and the Investment Committee were formally appointed today with President Irfaan Ali expressing full confidence that those who have been selected will ensure that the country’s oil and gas resources are properly managed. The NRF…
TOURISM operators will no longer have to go through a long and tedious process to obtain their licences as the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) on Monday launched its business-licensing portal, which will provide a more efficient and affordable service. Speaking at the simple launch ceremony held at Herdmanston Lodge, GTA’s Director Kamrul Baksh said the…
PRESIDENT of the Guyana Oil and Gas Energy Chamber (GOGEC), Manniram Prashad, is attending the Offshore Northern Shore (ONS) 2022 conference in Stavanger, Norway, and is slated to address the august forum today. Prashad will be delivering a presentation titled “Guyana – The Fastest Growing Offshore Market,” which will include an introduction about the country,…
ULTIMATUS Electicus, a team from the University of Guyana (UG) consisting of undergraduate engineering students, came in first place at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport’s National Science Fair Finals and Expo, winning $1 million. Their prize-winning project was the wireless fault line indicator project which would help Guyana Power and Light (GPL) to…
See below full statement from the Guyana Agriculture and General Workers Union (GAWU): Several former workers of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) on (Monday) August, 29, 2022 picketed against the management of the Guyana Forestry Commission for their continuing violation of the Collective Labour Agreement (CLA) between the GFC and the GAWU. Five (5) workers…
Eighty payment vouchers totalling $47.320M for 2020 and 250 payment vouchers totalling $85M for the years 2017 to 2019 were not presented for audit verification by the then Ministry of the Presidency. This is according to the Auditor General’s 2020 report, which noted that “as a result, the completeness, accuracy and validity of the transactions…
See the full statement from the Guyana Oil and Gas Energy Chamber below: ONS 2022 is a leading offshore and gas industry trade fair and will be held from the 29th of August to the 1st of September at Stavanger Forum. The previous edition welcomed over 68 000 international trade visitors and more than…
MONEY will be set aside in the 2023 National Budget for the construction of a nursery school at Parabara, Region Nine. The small community, which is located within the Deep South Rupununi district, currently has almost 20 children that meet the age for nursery education. President, Dr Irfaan Ali made the announcement when he met…
In a bid to make its services more accessible to stakeholders countrywide, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) has launched its business licensing portal – an online service that will eliminate the need for persons desirous of registering with the authority to travel to the authority’s Georgetown office to do so. Speaking at the portal’s launching…
A GROUP of students from the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) won three prizes in the Ministry of Education (MoE) Spark Programme, which held its closing ceremony on Monday at the National Centre for Education Resource Development (NCERD), Kingston, Georgetown. The CPCE group called “Service over Wealth” included students Crystal Cramer, Joel Bunbury, Tagedevi Roopnarine,…
