Guyana News

March 15 is observed by Consumers International (CI) each year as World Consumer Rights Day.

President Bharrat Jagdeo is concerned that even though the country will benefit from the recently announced US$467M debt write-off from the Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB), there will be a reduction in Guyana’s access to concessionary funding.

Several of the existing interior airstrips, many of which cannot be monitored because of scarce financial and human resources are hotbeds for drug smuggling and also facilitate the movement of illegal Brazilian miners, a source in the aviation sector has said.

Talks are underway for the construction of a nuclear power plant and an aluminium smelter in Suriname.

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Today’s column considers the (ab)use of forestry concessions as tradable commodities by Asian FDI-benefiting (Foreign Direct Investment) companies, practices that are against forest law and policy in Guyana.

The Ukranian chess player Vasily Ivanchuk, who keeps climbing in and then being thrown out of the world’s top ten, gives a splendid performance in the following game.

Thousands of years ago, power was gained mostly through physical violence and maintained with brute strength.

Co-authored by Clarence Trotz and Alec Farley, CXC Physics is just the latest offering in the Macmillan Science Series.

Increased salaries, improved working conditions and progress, top the list of workers’ expectations as the Chinese company Bosai Minerals Group Co Ltd (BOSAI), gets ready to take the helm of Omai Bauxite Mining Incorporated (OBMI) next week.

Barama Company Limited (BCL) is confident of being back in good stead with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) after a pre-audit inspection by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) shows that the company has fulfilled most of the corrective actions required.

A 15-year-old boy is missing from his Public Road, Kitty home, after his mother sent him to buy bread on Thursday.

Fifty works taking the natural world as their theme by leading Guyanese photographer Robert Fernandes will be on display at the National Gallery beginning on Wednesday.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) said Value-Added Tax (VAT) and Excise Tax returns for the second tax period are due on Thursday.

Eucryl Anthony Calder who passed away on March 4, will be buried today, Sunday March 18.

Two men on a motorcycle robbed a Regent Street store on Friday and escaped with an undisclosed sum of money.

Police are investigating a $9M robbery at Alexander Village which occurred on Thursday last, but have complained about not getting very far because of a lack of adequate information from the victim.

Brazil’s second largest producer of bio-diesel, Bio-Capital, is still awaiting detailed information on policies and practices from the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) in order to move ahead with a proposed investment for sugar cane cultivation and ethanol production.

The sugar production target for the first crop this year is 99,500 tonnes, a 10% increase over last year.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) is urging stakeholders who will interact closely with the visitors for the Cricket World Cup to use the metric system.