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Thursday, December 26, 2024

Citizens urged to take precautions against possible flooding

Prime Minister Mark Phillips is urging persons who reside in low-lying and flood-prone areas to take the necessary precautions in the coming days as...

Iwokrama welcomes Guyana’s innovative Carbon Agreement

See full statement from the Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development: The Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development extends...

Norway, World Conservation Society congratulate Guyana on issuance of high-quality carbon credits

    Norway’s Climate and Environment Minister, Espen Barth-Eide, has congratulated Guyana on being the first country in the world to get issued carbon credits under...

UNICEF donates water tanks, containers, & water purification tablets to CDC

UNICEF Representative to Guyana and Suriname, Mr. Nicolas Pron, today handed over 100 water tanks, 10,000 collapsible water containers, and two million water purification...

Shuman’s party lauds Carbon Credit deal with Hess

See below for a statement from the Lenox Shuman-led Liberty & Justice Party on Guyana's historic Carbon Credits deal with Hess Corp: The Liberty and...

FITUG congratulates Gov’t on sale of carbon credits

See below for a statement from FITUG extending congratulations to Government on sale of Carbon Credits: The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG)...

Carbon Credit deal with Hess: US$112M to be injected into Indigenous communities – Jagdeo

...1st payment of US$75M expected by Dec 15  Following the historic US$750 million deal signed by the Guyana Government on Friday for the sale of...

Hess to buy US$750M in carbon credits from Guyana

Hess Corporation, a global oil and gas firm, has committed to purchasing US$750M in carbon credits from Guyana. Today, the Guyana Government has signed the...

EPA approves environmental permit for Gas-to-Shore Project

After several rounds of consultations and intense review of the project over the past months, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the Environmental...

CDC monitoring flooding across the country as heavy rainfall continues

See full statement from the Civil Defence Commission (CDC): The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) has received several reports of flood impacts along the coastland of...

Recent Articles

Vessels fraudulently using Guyana’s flag sanctioned by US Treasury Dept

See full statement from the Maritime Administration Department: The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) wishes to share the facts in relation to information shared in a...

Historic moment for Guyana & US – Ambassador Theriot on Gte loan approval

    Today, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM), announced an approval of more than $526 million to the Ministry of Finance of the...

US EXIM Bank Grants Final Approval for US$526 M Gas to Energy Loan to...

Today at noon, His Excellency the President Dr. Mohammed Irfaan Ali received a telephone call from the President and Chair of the United States...

$100K cash grant: Rigid systems in place to avoid registration, issuance of cash grants...

                In light of specious and baseless claims by some sections of the public that dead people were registered for the 100,000 one-off cash grant...

ExxonMobil now owns all 3 FPSOs operating in Stabroek Block

      The purchase of the Liza Destiny Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel by ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL), was recently completed for US$535 million,...

Christmas 2024 in Guyana – When the tradition keeps on living – by Sébastien...

An account from Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana Sébastien Sigouin on his 1st Guyanese Christmas experience  If there was one distinctive part of my Christmases...

Pedestrian killed in Corentyne accident

    A Corentyne man is now dead after being hit by a car about 30 minutes before Christmas Day.   Dead is Jermaine Fraser, 40, of Auchlyne...

E-bike rider killed after colliding with minibus at WCB

      An electric bike rider is now dead after colliding with a minibus at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) on Christmas Eve. Dead...

25 years of hard work burnt to the ground, rebuilt for Christmas

By: Mishael Henry The smell of burnt charcoal lingers in the nostrils of Andrew McBean, and is etched into his memory like a sore scar. Exactly...

A soldier’s boots under the tree, but no son to wear them

By: La'Wanda McAllister  Festive homes all over Guyana are glimmering with Christmas lights and the melody of carols float in the warm December air. But...