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Human Services Ministry expands support for seniors
Dr Vindhya Persaud, Minister of Human Services and Social Security, at the Ministry's year-end press conference. (Photo: News Room) The year 2024 saw Guyana’s highest number of pensioners, with a 17% ...
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Tankers fraudulently using Guyana’s flag sanctioned by US – MARAD
Guyana’s Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) said recently that the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned five oil tankers that are reportedly owned by a Syrian conglomerate and ...
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With salary increases, more private-sector workers switching to gov’t work – President
With salary increases and adjustments across the public sector, President Dr. Irfaan Ali on Tuesday said more workers from the private sector are switching to public sector work. “You have many ...
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‘Record high’ rice production in 2024 – Mustapha
There was record rice production in Guyana this year, according to the Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha. Mustapha, speaking during his ministry’s yearend press conference on Monday, said ...
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‘A game changer’ for Guyana- New tissue culture lab to boost agri production
A $402.5 million tissue culture laboratory is being established on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD). This lab will allow local authorities to use plant fragments to produce millions of plantlets, a ...
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Toddler boy perishes in Albouystown house fire
A three-year-old boy, Amanie Abrahams, tragically perished in a house fire at Cooper Street, Albouystown in the wee hours of Monday. Police Headquarters reported that the toddler was left home alone ...
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Trinidad declares State of Emergency
(Loop News) Trinidad and Tobago has declared a State of Emergency. In a statement Monday morning, the government said: “Pursuant to secton 8 of the Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, ...
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Carter: “The most personal danger I have felt since leaving the White House was in Guyana in 1992″
President Desmond Hoyte welcomed President and Mrs. Carter during a visit to Guyana in October 1990. (Photo K Moore/The Carter Center) Guyana’s 1992 elections marked a historic turning point for the ...
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Deeds and Commercial Registries earned $2.6B this year
The Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority (DCRA) earned $2.6 billion in revenue from January to November 2024. This information was provided by the Attorney General’s Chambers. The sum is likely ...
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Guyana hopes to save big by producing hatching eggs locally
Guyana spends about US$6.6 million (or approximately GY$1.3 billion) importing about 53 million hatching eggs to satisfy local demand. Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha, however, told reporters ...
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‘False info’ on cash grant causing chaos – Government
Full statement issued by the Government of Guyana: It has been brought to the Government’s attention that persons connected to the APNU/AFC, bent on creating mischief and chaos, are circulating false ...
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Man dies in bee attack in Lethem; son, 13, hospitalised
Dead: Daniel Darrell Snr., a 39-year-old truck driver Daniel Darrell Snr., a 39-year-old truck driver from Tabatinga in Central Lethem, Region Nine died on Sunday after he was attacked by a swarm of ...