In what can be described as historic, H.E. First Lady Arya Ali has secured 100 scholarships for Indigenous women in the hinterland to be trained in the maritime and offshore industry through a local maritime training school. Atlantic Alliance (AA) Maritime & Offshore Training School is a 100% owed Guyanese company which the First Lady […]
Members of the Guyana Fire Service were this morning engaged in several muster parades across the country. The short exercise was aimed at inspecting ranks’ uniform, protective gears and firefighting equipment. Minister of Home Affairs, Hon. Robeson Benn during brief remarks told ranks that the exercise signals the transitioning of the Guyana Fire Service into […]
–Minister Edghill tells civil aviation graduating class The Civil Aviation Training School (CATS) on Friday graduated 17 persons after they successfully completed the Aeronautical Information Management and Air Traffic Control Assistant course. Minister of Public Works, Bishop Juan Edghill, M.P., while delivering remarks at the graduation ceremony held at the Transport and Harbours Sports Club […]
Some 55 residents of Plantation Hope Estate Scheme-Cum Annexes, East Coast Demerara, will soon be receiving their titles or transport documents for lands they have been occupying for decades. On Saturday, Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, M.P, led an outreach at the Hope Estate Compound, to begin the land verification process. A team […]
The Government has put two critical pieces of legislation in place – Local Content Act 2021 and Natural Resource Fund Act 2021, and it does not plan to stop there. It intends to put structures in place to protect its peoples’ interests, while providing efficient regulatory services of international standard. Delivering the government’s policy for […]
Today, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha met with workers from the Enmore Packaging Facility to update them on the future of the facility. The workers were told that Guysons K+B Industries (GKB) had entered into an agreement with the Government of Guyana to lease the facility which will then be transformed into a modern oil field […]
–‘Small Party’ online statement filled with blatant misinformation The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), in exercising its mandate to deliver quality drainage and irrigation services to farming communities across the country, has been working with various contractors and consultants to ensure drainage and irrigation works are executed to a specified standard across the country. […]
Prime Minister, Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips presented a telecommunications licence this afternoon to a new local telecommunications provider, Green Gibraltar. During a simple ceremony in the boardroom of the Prime Minister’s Office, the senior government official said that he was happy to welcome the local company and that it is his hope that the increased […]
Guyanese welders and other technical professionals are set to undergo high level courses that will allow their expertise to mirror international standards. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) providing international training in these fields was signed on Friday at the Marriot hotel, Georgetown, on the sidelines of the International Energy Conference and Expo. The agreement was […]
