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Govt.’s Green Paper on Natural Resources Fund takes Guyana back to square one –...

Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo, is not impressed with Government’s Green Paper – “Managing Future Petroleum Revenues and Establishment...

58 murders recorded in seven months

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has recorded 58 murders at of the end of July, 31, 2018 with disorderly murders...

WPA endorses Prof. Thomas’ call for US$5000 pay out from oil proceeds to poor...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA), recently endorsed the call made by Professor Clive Thomas to make some of Guyana’s petroleum...

Taxes represent more than 90 percent of Govt.’s revenue for first half of 2018

Finance Minister, Winston Jordan proudly told the National Assembly on Thursday that the agriculture, fishing and forestry sectors showed great...

Green State Development Strategy to be presented to Cabinet next month

The Department of the Environment (DoE) is in the advanced stages of finalising the Green State Development Strategy (GSDS) which...

CH&PA begins review of housing application backlog to determine those more in need

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA), has begun the sanitisation of the government housing programme’s application backlog. The exercise...

Taxi driver caught dropping unlicensed gun remanded

Following a high speed chase on Thursday, during which a 38-year-old taxi driver was caught by police ranks dropping a...

Gold declarations fell 19.4% below original projection – Mid-year Report

In the first half of 2018, declared gold production fell to 288,114 ounces, which translates to 19.4 percent below the...

US$460M pre-contract cost not audited due to lack of capacity-Jordan

The controversial US$460M pre-contract costs that ExxonMobil has charged Guyana is yet to be audited. And while Finance Minister, Winston...

Jagdeo says Finance Minister will have overall control of National Resources Fund

Government’s Green Paper which outlines the procedures for the management of proceeds from the oil and gas industry, places the...

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