The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) says it successfully energized a new 13.8 kV submarine cable across the Demerara River linking the Vreed-en-Hoop and Kingston power plants on Tuesday, June 12, 2019. On June 2, GPL’s 69 kV cable ...
The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Saturday elected Khemraj Ramjattan as its leader and Raphael Trotman as its Chairman, a party spokesman disclosed. Their election followed a decision by other contenders for both posts to withdraw from the race. Ramjattan ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Tangerine Clarke History was made on Saturday, May 25, when 169thStreet and Hillside Avenue, became, Ramesh D. Kalicharran “Kali” Way, co-named for late Guyanese-born, philanthropist, community leader, and the first street naming for an ...
Minister Jaipaul Sharma has been shifted from the Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of Public Infrastructure as its Junior Minister, sources said. Asked for the reason, the source would only say the move was “to enhance public administration”. Sharma, ...
The Guyana Police Force on Friday indicated that Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson has been cleared of corruption and other allegations concerning the hiring of a Netherlands-based company that conducted a feasibility study for a new Demerara River bridge. ...
Director-General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon said Friday that the Guyana government would abide by next week Tuesday’s judgments on whether last December’s no-confidence motion is valid and if President David Granger’s unilateral appointment of James Patterson ...
An investigation into the purported dismissal of three employees of the Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of the Public Service is set to begin on Monday, Director-General of the Ministry of the Presidency Joseph Harmon said Friday. He said the ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Bert Wilkinson Caribbean Community governments said this week that new research has shown that several European nations like Sweden, Switzerland and Russia, which were not previously associated with the TransAtlantic slave trade were in ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King Brooklyn Senator Zellnor Y. Myrie, along with the Senate Democratic Majority, on June 11 passed groundbreaking legislation to change the lives in the LGBTQ communities of New York State. Myrie said ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King A year after the highly successful launch of “The Taste,” a rising Vincentian chef in Brooklyn has impressed patrons again with her second offering. Allona Jackson, otherwise known as Chef Lloni, ...