General Manager of the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC)Teshawna Lall is urging persons to take advantage of the services provided by corporation to grow their businesses. Lall was speaking at the 11th-anniversary celebration of the Guyana Shop on Wednesday. “Let me remind you that we are a start-to-finish agency where we assist you on how to […]
Nursery-aged students of Hotoquai, Mabaruma sub-district, Region One will no longer have to attend school on a shift system, as the new nursery school is scheduled to be completed by month-end. The construction of the new wooden building began on May 8, 2023, and when completed will comfortably accommodate 26 pupils. Speaking to the Department […]
The residents of Apoteri, Rewa, and Crashwater in the North Rupununi, Region 9 are now recipients of scores of solar panels as the government advances the 30,000-household solar electrification programme. Visiting the communities to hand over the equipment, Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat highlighted that the government, since reassuming office in 2020, began the […]
On Wednesday, 18th October, 2023 the Hon. Mohabir Anil Nandlall SC MP, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs met with a team of Executive Members of the Guyana Bar Association. The Hon. Attorney General was accompanied by Deputy Solictor General, Ms. Deborah Kumar, Assistant Solicitor General, Ms. Shoshanna Lall and Anti-Money Laundering and Countering […]
A total of 68 households in Hotoquai Village in the Mabaruma sub-district, Region One are now beneficiaries of a $6.5 million tractor to support their economic development. The tractor is equipped with a trailer, harrow and plough. Tractors and trailers help with the labour-intensive parts of agriculture and provide transportation for those living in far-flung […]
More households in Region One are benefitting from enhanced access to electricity, as 257 solar systems were on Wednesday distributed to communities in the Mabaruma sub-district. Some 97 solar panels were distributed in Imbotero, 22 in Morawhanna, 58 in Hobodeia, 68 in Hotoquai, and Lower Koriabo received 12. The Department of Public Information (DPI) spoke […]
Minister Deodat Indar on Wednesday commended China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a means of transforming nations that participate in the decade’s long brainchild of President Xi Jinping. The Minister was at the time addressing the High Level Forum of Connectivity of the Third Belt and Road Forum of Infrastructure Cooperation that is underway […]
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a US$90 million loan to contribute to human capital development in Guyana. The loan approved by the IDB’s Board of Executive Directors is designed to expand access to safe and improved learning environments and enhance educational services for vulnerable students in Guyana. This is the first individual operation of […]
Some $47,157,000 in School Grants were on Wednesday distributed to nursery, primary and secondary schools in Region Seven. The Ministry of Education’s School Grant gives schools full autonomy to purchase their resources and empowers Headteachers to become better managers of their schools. Under the grant, teachers will be given $4,000 per child on the Coastland […]
The New Guyana Marketing Corporation and the Guyana Shop celebrated eleven years of providing marketing and other support to local producers and manufacturers, as the agriculture sector continues to expand. Speaking at an activity to mark the occasion on Wednesday, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha noted that the shop is a testament to the government’s […]