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Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) is targeting early 2023 for the operationalization of the first World Trade Center in the CARICOM region, according to the company’s Executive Chairman Komal Samaroo.
Bids were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the temporary rental by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) of a (60,000 to 80,000 sq ft) compound situated within Houston to Providence, East Bank Demerara, for storage of goods.
The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs (MoAA) is not taking criticisms of its operations lightly and in a strongly worded statement lashed out at critics for registering concerns over its functioning.
The Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed 11 new COVID-19 infections from a batch of 1,405 tests.
As part of its efforts to assist those fisherfolk who have been impacted by low catches over the past six months, the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday distributed approximately 170 food hampers to fisherfolk and their families from the East Coast of Demerara, The distribution comes months after a group of fishermen complained of not being able to harvest in their usual grounds due to offshore oil operations.
The Guyana Government today wrote the Chair of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Dela Britton expressing concern at what it said were numerous reports of the poor quality of public telecommunications services.
Representative of the APNU+AFC List of Candidates, David Granger has written to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) advising it to extract the names of Aubrey Norton and Volda Lawrence to fill the two empty seats in the National Assembly.
As the probe into the theft of supplies from the Minis-try of Health’s (MoH) drugs bond at Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) widens, director of the facility, Cecil Jacques, and several other staffers were yesterday taken into custody for questioning by police.
ExxonMobil has selected a planned US$600 million Vreed-en-Hoop shore base established by NRG Holdings Incorporated – a consortium of local business persons – to support its offshore oil operations, sources say.
After a two-year hiatus, the ceremonial opening of the criminal assizes returned to the High Court in Demerara yesterday morning and heard a renewed call by the Bar Association for confirmed appointments to the top two posts in the judiciary and the recomposing of the Judicial Service Commission.
Popular city street-food vendor, Debra Salikram, died yesterday morning following an accident on La Penitence Public Road, Georgetown.
A rank who was probing the rape complaint of 18-year-old Tonika Calder, who later died by suicide, was charged with criminal negligence earlier this year but the matter was thrown out by a magistrate at the Vigilance court because the charge was ruled as “bad in law,” according to sources.
On the heels of obtaining government regulatory approvals for its Yellowtail well and the announcement of its US$10 billion Final Investment Decision on that project, US oil major ExxonMobil is now seeking approval for a fifth development, at the Uaru+ well.
Months after the announcement of training for 6,000 Guyanese from the Barbados tourism and hospitality sector, those opportunities are yet to be realized and Minister Oneidge Walrond told this newspaper that it is still a work in progress.
Acting Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken yesterday told police inspectors that the force will be seeking to increase its human resource capacity with diversity being a key aspect of its recruitment drive.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is expected to re-advertise for applications to fill the vacant posts of Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) and Assistant CEO, according to opposition-nominated Commissioner Vincent Alexander.
Two men have been charged and remanded to prison over the robbery of a Kimbia, Berbice family.
President Irfaan Ali accepted the letters of credence yesterday appointing Liselle Blankendal as the Ambassador of the Republic of Suriname to Guyana, the Office of the President said yesterday.
The body of the Corriverton fisherman who allegedly fell overboard on Sunday was yesterday morning discovered in the area where the incident happened in the Corentyne River in the vicinity of Orealla Village.
Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand on Friday commissioned a smart classroom at the Christianburg Secondary School.
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