Guyana

Georgetown : At the Tourism Ministry Colgrain House, Minister of Telecommunication and Tourism, Catherine Hughes presented 23 retractable banners to Director of the Diaspora Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, An…

Georgetown: Joint service forces descended on the Georgetown Prison Wednesday night after chaos broke out after prisoners lit multiple fires within the prison but quick action by the authorities prevented…

Georgetown: The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has confirmed the arrival of all the ballot papers for Local Government Elections (LGE), which is scheduled to be held in two weeks time.…

Georgetown: President David Granger, who is Chancellor of the Orders of Guyana, Wednesday conferred Brazil’s Minister of External Affairs, Mr. MauroLuiz Iecker Vieira with the insignia of the Order of Roraima,…

Georgetown: The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) will be offering free glaucoma testing in observance of World Glaucoma Week. The free screening sessions dubbed “Check your eyes for Glaucoma” will…

Georgetown: Chief Justice (ag) Yonette Cummings-Edwards was Wednesday sworn in as a member of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). The simple ceremony took place at the Ministry of the Presidency,…

Georgetown: By mid-month at least 40 staffers from the Mayor and City Council’s (M&CC) Information Technology (IT) Department, Treasurer’s Department among others would have received complementary training for what is…

Georgetown : The Ministry of Public Health has reported that it is continuing to closely monitor the mosquito – borne Zika virus. Public Health Minister Dr. George Norton said that…

Caribbean governments have been urged to speed up legal and regulatory reform amid predictions of slower economic growth for the region, following last year’s mixed fortunes. The advice came yesterday…

Emerging markets, including those in the Caribbean, must find new models of economic growth, and the first step is to move away from models based on high government spending or…