Pork production set for boost as Ministry donates 20 pigs to new farmers 

The Ministry of Agriculture today handed over 20 improved breeds of pigs to new and established swine farmers. This activity was executed through the...

DPP discontinues charge filed by Nigel Hughes against Crime Chief Blanhum

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack has discontinued the private criminal charge filed by Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes against the Crime Chief, Wendell...

Driver, 45, dies following Mandela Avenue accident

Police are probing a fatal accident that occurred around 01:30hrs today at Nelson Mandela Avenue and Vlissengen Road. Dead is 45-year-old Nigel Cush of Roxanne...

Squatters to be relocated to facilitate $1.5B Independence Boulevard project

The Public Works Ministry will be engaging the Housing and Water Ministry to put systems in place to relocate squatters residing at Cemetery Road,...

Nationwide fire prevention awareness outreach launched

The Fire Advisory Board of Guyana has launched an education awareness outreach programme to inform the public on fire safety and prevention. The programme was...

25 Buxtonians sign $56M in contracts to rehabilitate bridges

– employment, training underway Twenty-five contractors from the village of Buxton, East Coast Demerara were awarded contracts to rehabilitate 25 bridges in the community to...

GECOM Extends ongoing Claims and Objection Exercise by a week

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has extended the ongoing Claims and Objections Exercise by seven days, to afford eligible persons further opportunities to participate...

Kato, Monkey Mountain farmers benefit from $32M in equipment to boost agriculture 

Through the Ministry of Agriculture’s Rural Agriculture Infrastructure Development Project (RAID), farmers from the villages of Kato and Monkey Mountain in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni)...

Gov’t approves Local Content Master Plans with new 45-day payment period

The Ministry of Natural Resources on Wednesday approved the Local Content Master Plans of tier-one contractors – SBM Offshore, Halliburton among others – operating...

Cop arrested after he “sent away” suspect in attempted shooting

A police constable is now under close arrest after he allegedly released a man accused of attempting to shoot a woman at a food...

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