Due to increased foreign investments in the country’s economy, Guyana-based businesses continue to make rapid progress in adopting Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) norms aligned with international standards. This is according to the 2024 Investment Climate Report, published by the United States Department of State. According to the report, there is…
Zhong Jin Ziang, a 34-year-old female of Chinese descent and a Customer Representative at Muneshwers Travel Service, was charged on Thursday with the offence of ‘Overstaying of Person in Guyana’. She was arrested on July 15 during the course of an investigation into a major money laundering and gold smuggling…
The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) seized a quantity of cocaine and an unregistered firearm during a raid on Friday at an unfinished building in Prashad Nagar, Georgetown. Ranks discovered a 7.62 assault rifle and two brick-like parcels containing a whitish powdery substance suspected to be cocaine. The assault rifle was…
See below the full statement issued: The U.S. Government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Guyana, donated 20,000 malaria rapid diagnostic tests to the Guyana National Malaria Program. The donation is in response to a malaria test kit…
Preparations are in full swing to transform the Guyana National Stadium for the highly anticipated 2024 International Building Expo which is expected to attract the participation of 20 foreign companies and more than 350 exhibitors. Thousands of house lots and land titles will also be distributed while partnerships will be…
See below the full statement issued: Olive Cannings Sampson, the Chief Executive Officer of the now disgraced and virtually defunct International Decade of People of African Descent Guyana -IDPADA-G, has written to newspaper editors to brazenly assert exclusivity for its ‘sister’ political organisation, the African Cultural Development Association-ACDA, regarding emancipation…
In a landmark step towards prisoner rehabilitation and national development, the Guyana Prison Service, through the Ministry of Home Affairs, on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA). The MOU outlines the production of 500,000 concrete blocks by inmates under CH&PA’s Community-based…
President Dr Irfaan Ali said that his Government will be expanding the Agricultural and Innovation Entrepreneurship Programme to enhance food production and business opportunities for young people. The climate-smart initiative, which includes high-value products grown under shade houses, will now also include poultry farming, aquaculture and the construction of farmsteads….
Four persons on Friday appeared at the Diamond Magistrate’s Court, East Bank Demerara, charged separately with the offences of Money Laundering, in contravention of Section 3(1)(b) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act. Police Headquarters reported that Saffee Ahmad called ‘Chillo’, 58; Shameena Ahamad, 52; Ashiana…
The Ministry of Health on Friday partnered with a local group known as Stride592 to launch a new project called ‘Strengthening Our Cardiovascular Advocacy’(SOCA), at the Windjammer Hotel in Kitty, Georgetown. Established some 14 months ago, Stride592 is a movement created to encourage people to exercise and improve their lives….
