-by Kurt Campbell- Guyana and China today celebrated their years of friendship and diplomatic relations with the signing of a new cooperation agreement. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed within the framework of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative. The MOU was signed on behalf of the Government…
Confident that his party has overwhelming support in hinterland communities, PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo is not fazed at the formation of a political party by prominent indigenous leaders. Jagdeo said the PPP invested heavily in the development of Amerindian villages and the fostering on indigenous rights. He believes that the indigenous peoples will take…
Guyana’s First Lady, Sandra Granger utilized the opportunity at an international health forum on Wednesday to push for greater attention to be placed on mother-to-child transmission of HIV. The forum was the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018) in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where she chaired one of the plenary discussions. The First Lady, in her opening…
Bandits on Wednesday made off with items valuing $320,000 from the 51-year-old owner of a Wash Bay at lot 38 Public Road, Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara (EBD) in a daring daylight robbery. Reports are that the woman, Debbie Atwell, owner of Presidential Touch Wash Bay, was sitting on a chair on the eastern side at…
(DPI) Forty (40) Guyanese mariners are being trained in occupational safety for jobs in the offshore oil and gas industry by Edison Chouest Offshore in collaboration with El Dorado Offshore. Director of El Dorado Offshore, Natasha Jairam-Abai said the company is hoping to double the number of persons trained in the next six months to…
A 38-year-old miner was today charged with the murder of a woman, whose skeletal remains were recently discovered at a trail in Bartica, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni). Dead: Petal Hafez (Photo taken from Stabroek News) James Allen of Two Friends Village, East Coast Demerara, appeared before Chief Magistrate, Ann McLennan and was not required to…
Weeks after the body of a missing woman was found decomposed on Thomas island in the Puruni river, the man who was last seen with her has been charged for her murder. 38-year-old miner, James Allen, appeared in the Courtroom of the Chief Magistrate this afternoon and was not required to enter a plea to…
Fruitful discussions on Guyana’s overlapping maritime boundaries with Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago is dependent on the outcome of the court case regarding the border controversy with Venezuela. The majority of the Caribbean’s international maritime boundaries are yet to be established, owing to several unresolved boundary matters among Caribbean nations. Though not much progress can…
Guyanese are being encouraged to qualify themselves in preparation for oil production so that they can work in the sector and take advantage of the benefits which are also open to foreigners. Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge said on Monday that Guyanese stand a chance of being overlooked for jobs in the sector if they do not…
The Bank of Guyana Annual Report for 2017 was recently made available on the Bank’s website, an important document that presents a detailed report on the performance and developments within the economy. Having reviewed same, it was shown that real GDP growth declined by 1.3 percent from 3.4 percent for the corresponding period in 2016…
