– VP Jagdeo says focus is on rebooting economy, increasing spending power – business climate still ripe for investment, says GCCI president By Vishani Ragobeer THOUGH the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reduced the projected positive growth rate of Guyana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Vice-President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo says the Government is more keen on…
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is investigating several pyramid schemes which are referred to as ‘The Bless Circle’ or ‘Rhe Flower’ after some persons were scammed of their monies. “As we speak, we are investigating one instance where persons would have collected money from individuals…they refer to it as a flower and every petal, you…
The Director of Public Prosecutions has decided to withdraw the charge of larceny which Attorney General Anil Nandlall was facing in the Courts over the the alleged theft of law books belonging to the state. When the matter was called in Court for hearing, the Magistrate informed the Court that the matter has been withdrawn…
-only country in Caribbean & Latin America with positive growth GUYANA is the only country in the Caribbean and Latin America region projected to have positive real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, pegged at 26.2 per cent, in spite of the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The…
A three week virtual training course targeting doctors and nurses opened on Monday and aims to better equip and inform health workers on the mental health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic caused a disruption to the already limited and stretched service given to mental health. Among the vulnerable groups that are greatly affected…
With the state-owned sugar company, GUYSUCO, continuing to flood its lands at Success to get squatters off, the government has moved to set up sleeping facilities at an East Coast Primary School to house squatters who have been displaced. Many of the squatters have rejected the offer made by the Prime Minister for them to…
– Human Services Ministry, diaspora ready to assist By Vishani Ragobeer PRIME MINISTER, Brigadier (ret’d) Mark Phillips, during a meeting with the squatters at Success on Saturday, offered to set up a temporary shelter nearby for them, but his offer was not met with a favourable response. Over the past few months, squatters have been…
Police have arrested a 21-year-old labourer who confessed to murdering his drinking buddy during an argument over what alcohol they were drinking. Dead is Elon ‘Buckman’ Benjamin, 33, a labourer of Grant Enterprise, Lower Pomeroon River. The Guyana Police Force reported that the incident occurred at about 23:00h on Saturday at a shop in Grant…
Leader of the Opposition Joe Harmon led an Opposition Parliamentary team to the community of Success on the East Coast of Demerara this morning to meet with squatters who are being flooded off state lands by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO). Mr. Harmon called out the government for its treatment of the squatters and made…
— 350 land titles distributed in ‘Dream Realised Housing Drive’ — 2,600 more in the next few days; 25, 000 homes to be built GOVERNMENT will, in another few days, distribute more than 2,600 land titles countrywide, as part of a wider goal to build 25,000 homes and create 50,000 house lots within the next…
