The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce & Industry, President Clinton Urling says he  is saddened by the recent actions of the Opposition Parties in the National Assembly to vote down four bills presented by the Minister of Home Affairs last week. Urling said  for the business community security is a major issue of concern. The Chamber in a press statement said that it would appear as though the Opposition p ...

As the Guyana Power and Light Company, seeks the Public Utility Commission’s permission to authorize the proposed tariff increase of some 26.7%, the company’s Chief Executive Officer Bharat Dindyal said there is a possibility that if the permission is granted, those rates could eventually drop early next year. He stated that the PUC’s Tariff adjustment mechanism could serve as a means of reducing the cost o ...

An IDB-funded project is under scrutiny after allegations of fraud were leveled against an official managing a division of the project. The Inter-American Development Bank sent investigators to Guyana from the United States who are looking at how an official of the Citizen Security Program may have developed allegedly a conflict of interest in the award and processing of contracts under his purview. The IDB ...

Caricom Countries are expected to design projects in the Maritime Transport and the Information Technology sector in order to benefit from an Aid for Trade strategy. The Caricom Regional Aid For Trade strategy was launched in Haiti and is being promoted in the International community by the Director General of the World trade Organistaion Pascal Lamy and  other friends of the Region. In a statement Secretar ...

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Telcor Broadcasting is linked to Minister of National Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud. Documents seen by this Newscast indicate that the incorporator of the company is Ruth Baljit, the sister of Minister Persaud. However, the signature on documents submitted to the Deeds Registry appear different than the one on Baljit’s New York Identification Card, which was also seen by this Newscast. There ...