Prime Minister, Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips stated that the Government will continue to develop the electric vehicle industry to lessen the country’s carbon footprint. He explained that with Guyana’s drive to significantly slash the price of electricity, having electric vehicles will become very viable. “While the proliferation of electric vehicles adds a new dynamic for…
Attorney-at-law and Chairman of the Guyana Bar Association, Pauline Chase, was, on Friday, unanimously elected Chairperson of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC). According to a release, Chase was voted in as Chairman when the commissioners convened their first meeting since the constitution of the commission last Friday. “In accordance with Article 212(Y) (3) of the…
Some 7,000 house lots are being developed in Region Three (Essequibo Island- West Demerara), as part of the PPP/C government’s drive to provide 50,000 house lots to Guyanese by the year 2025. President Irfaan Ali while conducting a walkthrough of the new West Central Mall under construction at Leonora, West Coast Demerara said the first…
FOR their involvement in desecrating the Speaker’s Mace in December 2021, eight members of parliament from the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) are likely to face suspension, according to a media report referencing the Privileges Committee’s investigation. During the debate on the Natural Resources Fund Bill in December 2021, chaos…
There is currently a local shortage of packaged sugar produced by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), according to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sasenarine Singh. Singh, in a video uploaded to GuySuCo’s Facebook page, assured customers that this packaged sugar should be supplied to the local market in another two week’s time. There have been…
GUYANA will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its public policy and fiscal management response to the COVID-19 pandemic with a US$130 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). According to a release, the operation, the second of a two programmatic-based loan series, will support Guyana’s government efforts to promote macroeconomic stability and withdraw…
High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon, on Friday, ordered the immediate release of 58-year-old Raymond Jones who has been languishing on remand for the last nine years for murder. Jones of Micobie Village in Potaro, Region Eight, was freed after Justice Kissoon found that Jones’ constitutional rights to a free trial within a reasonable time by an…
— over US$100M could be earned from next sale GUYANA has raked in over US$108 million (approximately G$22B) from the latest sale of its share of crude oil, which is produced offshore by ExxonMobil. The country was able to rake in this amount because of the soaring prices of oil on the world market caused…
The Parliamentary Committee of Privileges has recommended varied suspensions for eight opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) involved in the parliamentary disruptions resulting in the seizure of the Speaker’s Mace on December 29, 2021. The opposition MPs who reprimand is being recommended for are Annette Ferguson, Christopher Jones, Ganesh Mahipaul, Vinceroy Jordan, Tabitha Sarabo-Halley, Sherod Duncan,…
Guyana’s local content secretariat, which is the oversight body tasked with verifying local companies seeking to operate in Guyana’s nascent oil and gas industry, has confirmed that Ramps Logistics Guyana re-submitted an application for a local content certificate. Based on a press release issued by the company, the application was submitted on Thursday. On Friday,…
