See below 56th Independence Day message from the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU): The attainment of political independence represented the culmination of years of struggles of our people to extract themselves from the yoke of colonialism. Indeed, it was widely felt that the chains of the colonial master served as a major restraint…
Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat announced today that his Ministry is putting necessary measures in place to ensure that Guyanese benefit from the oil and gas sector with its new Local Content Legislation. During a consultation on the Local Content Policy, Minister Bharrat said a Local Content Secretariat has already been established to serve…
— $25M allocated to cash crop farmers for same GOVERNMENT has set aside some $250M for rice farmers in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) and a further $25M for cash crop farmers there to purchase fertilizers, Vice-President, Bharrat Jagdeo announced on Wednesday. The Vice-President made the announcement during a meeting with scores of farmers, primarily rice farmers,…
CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr. Carla Barnett, has congratulated the Government and People of Guyana on the occasion of the country’s Fifty-Sixth anniversary of Independence which it celebrates on 26 May 2022. See message by Secretary-General Barnett to President of Guyana, His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali: “On behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), I extend congratulations…
Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat announced today that his Ministry is putting necessary measures in place to ensure that Guyanese benefit from the oil and gas sector with its new Local Content Legislation. During a consultation on the Local Content Policy, Minister Bharrat said a Local Content Secretariat has already been established to serve…
MORE than 200 small grants were, on Wednesday, distributed to Region Two residents to either start a business or expand their existing business as government looks to reinvigorate life into the region’s business sector which, like other parts of the country, is feeling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The distribution of grants valued at…
Persistent rainfall has forced organisers of the highly anticipated Dave West Indian Imports’ Independence Day Challenge featuring the Albion Community Centre Cricket Club and the Everest Cricket Club to postpone the 40-over contest, which was originally set to be played on Thursday (May 26). The match has been shifted to a date to be confirmed in…
Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat announced today that his Ministry is putting necessary measures in place to ensure that Guyanese benefit from the oil and gas sector with its new Local Content Legislation. During a consultation on the Local Content Policy, Minister Bharrat said a Local Content Secretariat has already been established to serve…
HAILED as the largest public infrastructure project undertaken in Guyana, the government, on Wednesday, signed a US$260 million contract for the construction of the new Demerara River Bridge at the Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara (EBD) site where the eastern end of the bridge will land. Deodat Indar, Minister within the Ministry of Public Works,…
West Indies player Shemaine Campbelle has been appointed skipper of the Guyana team to compete in the Cricket West Indies’ CG Insurance Women Super50 Cup and T20 Blaze to be held in Guyana next month. Campbelle will have as her deputy all-rounder Shabika Gajnabi, the Guyana Cricket Board announced on Wednesday. The CG Insurance Super50…
