September 2024

The Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) is beginning a project tonight in front of Parliament Building, in the City, to replace the transmission and distributions lines from Broad to Hadfield Streets and from Hadfield Street to Bank of Guyana. GWI has often said that the infrastructure in Georgetown is very old, with some of the lines
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Consultants were in Guyana assessing the Gas-to-Energy project at Wales, West Bank Demerara (WBD) for the United States Export-Import (EXIM) Bank. With the process of “due diligence” now complete, Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo says the country’s request for funds could be taken to the Board for approval sometime in October. Guyana is awaiting the
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Guyana’s top female badminton player Priyanna Ramdhani has advanced to the semi-finals of the 2024 Costa Rica Future Series Tournament. Ramdhani has teamed up with Chequeda de Boulet of Trinidad and Tobago and the pair has enjoyed a successful run thus far. In the Round-of-16, they defeated their Gabriela Barrios and Margareth Revelo of El
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Cricket West Indies (CWI) on Thursday announced the commencement of the recruitment process for a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The post will become vacant on Friday November 1, 2024, with the departure of outgoing CEO Johnny Grave, who has led the organisation since February 2017. An executive manager is confirmed to lead the organisation
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Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan), through its Skills to Access the Green Economy (SAGE) program—a Government of Canada funded initiative—has teamed up with the Ministry of Human Services and Social Protection, the Guyana Women Miners Association, Conservation International Guyana, and the Guyana Mining School to launch a groundbreaking program aimed at empowering women in the
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As of January 8, 2025, Guyanese will need more than just their travel bags and passports to visit the United Kingdom (UK). They’ll require an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), a new digital checkpoint introduced by the UK Government which will be extended to 49 countries from January. This change marks a significant shift from the
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Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo said that the former APNU+AFC government introduced more than 350 new taxes and onerous measures while in government from 2015 to 2020. The Vice President, speaking at a People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) press conference on Thursday, reminded citizens that it was believed that the coalition government had introduced about
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In a case that intertwines land disputes, alleged fraud and political influence, Akicha Coates, a devoted mother of two, is speaking out about what she claims is a gross miscarriage of justice involving a property she purchased in 2004. Coates, who relocated from Guyana to St. Kitts and Nevis with her husband in 2001, invested
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Some $100 million has been earmarked to upgrade several internal roads at Campbelltown in Region Eight. The transformative project fulfills a commitment made by Vice President, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo during a recent visit. Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill met with community members on Wednesday and made it clear that the project will be undertaken
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The body of a female, known only as Desiree, was discovered Thursday morning at approximately 9:00 hrsin a guard hut at Merriman’s Mall, situated between North Road and Church Road on Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, Georgetown. Desiree, who had been living in the guard hut with Troy Williams, an unemployed male, for the past three years,
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