GEORGETOWN – President David Granger has assured Guyana that the date for a general election will be revealed at the right time. Granger said it would be reckless for him to name a date for elections without the advice of the Elections Commission with regard to its readiness. The President said the Elections Commission must […]
Trinidadian conglomerate Massy will next Wednesday open one of its largest stores in the Caribbean at Turkeyen, East Coast, Demerara, Guyana. Located in the MovieTowne compound, “Massy Stores –Mega” will be opened three years after its first supermarket here. In 2016, Massy’s supermarket was opened at Providence. The store’s design incorporates extensive aisles to comfortably […]
Guyana joined six fellow Amazonian countries last Friday in Letecia, Colombia to sign a pact to protect the world’s largest tropical forest. Signed at a time when the Amazon is under threat from fires, the pact aims to coordinate disaster response and satellite monitoring, the Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana said. Minister […]
GEORGETOWN – The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will meet this to discuss a proposal that the fresh regional and general election as mandated by the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) be held in March next year. One of the three government appointed GECOM commissioner, Vincent Alexander, said that there’s nothing definitive about the proposal […]
Two years after its establishment, Pomeroon Trading, a coconut growing and processing agribusiness, is preparing to be publicly traded on the Guyana Stock Exchange. A press statement from the company stated that it will list all of its shares and will issue 133,333 new shares at a price of USD 7.50 per share to any […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Nineteen teachers will soon begin training which will equip them with the necessary skills to teach English as a second language to children of Venezuelan migrants who’ve travelled to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to escape hardship in the Spanish-speaking nation. The Government said it has been working with the Office of […]
By Jasminee Sahoye Canadians of Guyanese heritage want to know about Exxon Mobil’s plans should there be an oil spill during their oil production operations in Guyana. This was among a number of questions posed to the company’s executives during a Town Hall on Guyana’s Oil and Gas Development, organized by the Canadian Council for […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The High Court has declared there’s nothing unconstitutional about the ongoing house-to-house registration that the Guyana Elections Commission – GECOM – says is necessary to have a clean voters list ahead of polls that have become due following the passage of a no-confidence motion against the government. But Acting Chief Justice Roxane […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – UK-based Tullow Oil has struck liquid gold in Guyana. Director of the Department of Energy Dr Mark Bynoe announced last week that Tullow Oil Plc’s wholly owned subsidiary Tullow Guyana B.V. has discovered oil in commercial quantities at the Jethro-1 exploration well, drilled in the Orinduik Block offshore Guyana. The Jethro-1 well […]
Guyana’s total estimated income from 13 discoveries is now projected at 117.5 billion US dollars. This massive windfall for a country of just 750,000 people places Guyana well on its way to becoming one of the richest countries in the world in per capita terms. And, with clear indications that there is a lot more […]
