Guyana to host ACTO confab
Georgetown: : Guyana will be the host country for the 2017 Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) Traditional Knowledge Meeting. The regional conference will be held on November 2-3, 2017, under…
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Minister Harmon calls on EPA for more focus on technical expertise, environmental management
Georgetown: Minister of State, Mr. Joseph Harmon, who holds responsibility for the Department of Environment (DOE) under whose purview the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) falls, yesterday, called on the agency…
Trini national in fake kidnaping plot remanded
Georgetown: The Trinidadian national, who staged his own kidnapping in Guyana and demanded US$700,000 in ransom from his family, was remanded to prison on Tuesday, October 31, 2017. Sawak Maraj,…
Walter Rodney Archives pays tribute to Indian indentured labourers
Georgetown: A country or nation without its past is like a ship without a sail. Recognising this, the Walter Rodney Archives is paying tribute to the Indian indentured labourers who…
Food and Drug Laboratory Complex to be established at UG
Georgetown: A Food and Drug Laboratory Complex is slated to be established at the University of Guyana’s (UG) Turkeyen Campus following a ground-breaking ceremony. The new complex will lessen Guyana’s…
Teachers to enjoy interim salary increase until task force completes dossier
Georgetown: President David Granger met a delegation from the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Monday at State House to discuss the way forward with regard to negotiations between the Government…
Broker arrested in cocaine rice shipment to Belgium
Georgetown: Over 67 kilograms of suspected cocaine were uncovered concealed randomly in sealed 45kg bags of rice destined for export to Belgium, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said on Monday.…
Tried and tested agro-processing model key to economic development across Guyana
Georgetown: With agriculture still one of the most important economic activity across the 10 Administrative Regions of Guyana, President David Granger is urging farming communities and local and international investors…
President Granger went beyond constitutional provisions to select GECOM Chair – Harmon
Georgetown: Minister of State Joseph Harmon said President David Granger did not act unilaterally or unconstitutionally when he selected retired Justice James Patterson to head the country’s Election Commission. Minister…
Prison escapee sentenced to two decades for manslaughter
Georgetown: Kendell Skeete, 38, of Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara (WBD) an escapee from the Lusignan holding area following the Camp Street unrest and who was eventually recaptured in Linden…
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