Guyana News

Projecting that he will be re-elected in 2025, President Irfaan Ali on Friday said that the country will be exporting corn and soya by 2027 and he stressed the importance of digitization.

Following weeks of complaints about potholes on the Central Corentyne Highway and poor repairs, the authorities yesterday began patching sections of the thoroughfare.

Former Auditor General, Anand Goolsarran, is suing Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo for in excess of $30,000,000 for allegedly slanderous statements he said Jagdeo made against him at a press conference and a public rally back in March of this year.

President Irfaan Ali on Friday took a swipe at former president, Donald Ramotar who was reported to have said recently that he supported a renegotiating of Guyana’s much criticised Production Sharing Agreement with ExxonMobil.

Preparations are underway for Guyana to host the second AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF23) that will see an anticipated 1,500 foreign delegates from over 100 countries later this month and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) is assuring that Georgetown will be ready.

To improve the State’s capabilities to tackle financial crimes including the civil and criminal forfeiture of proceeds of and properties acquired through these crimes, the Attorney General’s Chambers will partner with the Asset Recovery Unit (ARU) of the Regional Security System (RSS) to host a workshop in Guyana from tomorrow to the 13th of October, 2023.

A fire of unknown origin that started around 7:41 pm yesterday completely destroyed a house at Theatre Alley, Republic Road, New Amsterdam, Region Six.

A 38-year-old woman of El Dorado Village, West Coast Berbice died yesterday morning after she was run over by a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) bus on the Foulis Public Road, West Coast Berbice.

Courts’ “Operation Trans-formation,” a home make-over promotion captured the attention of Maya Persaud, Miss India Guyana 2021.

Shawn Joseph, who was crushed to death by a crane on Thursday, while planting piles on a construction site of a shore base facility at Providence, East, Bank Demerara, was flung out of the machine, says his mother.

The Ministry of Education yesterday warned about scammers targeting residents of Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni).

The Lucas Stock Index fell 1.818 percent during the first period of trading in October 2023. 

The man who shot two women on Freeman Street, East Ruimveldt, George-town, on September 28 is yet to be arrested.

President Irfaan Ali on Friday met with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Food Security Expert and Caribbean Deputy Development Director, Jonathan Reeves, at the Office of the President on Shiv Chanderpaul Drive.

Lavie Long, 38, of El Dorado Village, West Coast Berbice died today after she was run over by a Guyana Defence Force bus on the Foulis Public Road.

The Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) today said that a farmer’s market will be held at Leonora, West Coast Demerara and at Albion, Corentyne tomorrow morning featuring cheaper prices.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday promised that in one week, the backlog of over 5,000 outstanding passports will be gone.

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) is to launch an investigation into the controversial $865 million Belle Vue, West Bank Demerara, Pump Station contract award to Tepui Group and will ask for the documents of the 26 bidders, Opposition Member of Parliament David Patterson yesterday said.

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton yesterday waded into the government for what he believes is an attempt to absolve itself from its responsibilities in the ExxonMobil audit sums reduction from US$214 million to US$3 million, saying they have instead thrown a public servant “under the bus.”

A popular boat operator tragically lost his life after falling into the Essequibo River.