Days after President Dr. Irfaan Ali announced that the government will distribute free cement and steel to some categories of home builders, Housing Minister Collin Croal promised that the building materials will be transparently distributed soon. Minister Croal said the Housing Minister’s technical team is currently working on the distribution model for the support programme;…
Weeks after announcing that he would go after his former friend and tenant, Chinese businessman Su Zhi Rong, Guyana’s Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the businessman over statements that the businessman made in a Vice News undercover report. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Vice President by…
FLAG-BEARERS … ALIYAH Abrams and boxer Keevin Allicock, will be Guyana’s Flag-bearers at opening of the 22nd Commonwealth Games tomorrow. For Allicock, the 2022 event will mark his second appearance at the Commonwealth Games following his participation at the 2018 games in Australia. Allicock, 23, in 2017, won silver at the Youth Commonwealth Games in…
Prime Minister, Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips on Tuesday officially announced the appointment of Colonel (Ret’d) Nazrul Hussain as Director-General of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC). The announcement was made during an officiating ceremony at the CDC headquarters in Thomas Lands. Colonel Hussain, who retired in 2019, has 35 years of service in the Guyana Defence Force.…
The APNU+AFC Opposition today expressed its displeasure over a recent decision of the Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir to disallow a motion filed by the Opposition Leader, which called for an international investigation into allegations of bribery and corruption involving Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo. In denying the motion last Thursday, the Speaker said…
AS preparations for Exercise Tradewinds 2023 heighten, coordinating team members recently conducted a series of strategic site s urveys to assess the possibility of including a Human Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) serial as part of the exercise. A team including the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), the Civil Defence Commission, US Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), and…
For several athletes in Birmingham representing Guyana at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, their participation at the 22nd hosting of the event provides an opportunity for redemption after failing to either make it out of the first round or advance further at the 2018 games, held in Australia’s Gold Coast. Athletes in the disciplines of squash,…
Ensuring First Peoples are not last citizens (Part II)… ROBERT H. Schomburgk’s language in ‘Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana’ is both pitiful and supportive of its First Peoples, made clear in the very first paragraph of the book’s preface: “It is needless for me here to repeat how I have become acquainted with…
There is a growing demand for housing solutions in Guyana and a new, local company Trican Developments Inc is hoping to provide luxury accommodation solutions with a more than US$20 million investment in condominiums and office spaces at Cummings Lodge, Georgetown. The sod-turning ceremony for the company’s first condominium and office space will be done…
WHILE Guyana is rapidly evolving as an oil-and-gas market, the nation’s economy will not depend solely on the treasured natural resource for countrywide development. President, Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali, said the essential resource is an important part of the country’s development trajectory. The head of state made it clear that the hydrocarbon will bring essential…
