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PPP seeks to move 14 polling places from public buildings to private homes
Aug 29, 2025 News …Opposition objects, storms out of GECOM meeting Opposition-nominated commissioner of GECOM Vincent Alexander Kaieteur News – With just three days left before September 1 General and Regional Elections, the People’s Progressive...

Mohamed promises aluminum plant, glass factory for Linden
Aug 29, 2025 News …says move will boost jobs for a neglected community Leader of the WIN Party, Azruddin Mohamed speaking at his party’s rally in Linden on Wednesday night. Kaieteur News – Presidential hopeful and leader of the WIN Party, Azruddin...

President commissions $6.6B Number 75 Village hospital
Aug 29, 2025 News The $6.6 billion Number 75 Village hospital Kaieteur News – Citizens of Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) could see significant improvements in healthcare services in that part of the country, as President Irfaan Ali on...

West Indies U-19 ready to embrace Sri Lanka challenge
(CWI) – West Indies Under-19 captain Joshua Dorne says the squad is ready to embrace the challenge of Sri Lanka in a seven-match Youth One-Day International series, which bowls off on Saturday, 30 August at the Coolidge Cricket Ground. The...

Guyana heads to pivotal elections as oil wealth fuels development and debate
Guyana is preparing for General and Regional Elections on 1 September, a vote that could shape the trajectory of one of the world’s fastest-growing economies for the next decade. With vast oil revenues now flowing into state coffers, the small...

PPP/C has comprehensively failed in relation to oil and gas industry
Dear Editor, Let us first be reminded of President Ali’s and 2nd VP Jagdeo’s boisterous pre-2020 election promise and utterings that “We will renegotiate those contracts. The Coalition sold us out to the foreigners and every time there is an oil...

Glenn Lall warns Guyanese: “Don’t fall for Jagdeo’s promises”
Glenn Lall warns Guyanese: “Don’t fall for Jagdeo’s promises” Aug 27, 2025 News …says whenever he promises, he fails and forgets! Businessman, Glenn Lall Kaieteur News – Businessman Glenn Lall has poured cold water on Vice President Bharrat...

Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada discuss sharing energy expertise
News Melissa Doughty Just Now Energy Minister Dr Roodal Moonila, second from left, with Grenada Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell, second from right, and other Grenada officials at an official visit in Grenada from August 23-24. - ENERGY MINISTER Dr...
UAL launches Caribbean Shuttle connecting Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, and Surinam
UAL has introduced the UAL Caribbean Shuttle, a fixed 9-day loop service linking Point Lisas (Trinidad & Tobago), Georgetown (Guyana), and Paramaribo (Suriname). The new service responds to increasing demand for reliable, multipurpose shipping...

Guyana Lost $4.2B in Oil Profits in 2024 Alone – Analysts
By Darshanand Khusial News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Mon. Aug. 25, 2025: As of August 2025, there are now 4 deepwater oil operations in production in Guyana, altogether capable of pumping 900,000 Barrels Of Oil Equivalent (bboe) a day, or US$1.8...
ExxonMobil to contract specialised vessel for work offshore Guyana
US supermajor ExxonMobil has issued a request for information (RFI) as it seeks to identify interested suppliers that can provide multi-purpose support vessels (MPSV) to aid oil and gas activities offshore Guyana. ExxonMobil is already producing...

UAL Launches Caribbean Shuttle Connecting Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, and Suriname
UAL has introduced the UAL Caribbean Shuttle, a fixed 9-day loop service linking Point Lisas (Trinidad & Tobago), Georgetown (Guyana), and Paramaribo (Suriname). The new service responds to increasing demand for reliable, multipurpose shipping...

Climate-resilient fund, opportunities for diversified income among major support for fisherfolk – Pres. Ali announces
Stakeholders within the local fishing industry – including boat owners and operators, their workers, as well as vendors – can look forward to continued investments in the sector under a People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) administration,...

Guyana’s oil fund received almost US$618 million in second quarter of 2025
Aug 25, 2025 News The Prosperity FPSO Kaieteur News – Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund (NRF) received payments totaling US$617,955,248 (GY$126 billion) in deposits from oil revenues during the second quarter of 2025 for the Stabroek block operation....
Guyana’s oil output almost unchanged at 664,000 bpd in July
Oil output in Guyana was almost unchanged last month at around 664,000 barrels per day (bpd), the government said in a bulletin on Thursday, which led to an average of 643,000 bpd in the first seven months of the year. The South American country’s...

Policy Forum Guyana says being squeezed out of role in GYEITI
Aug 26, 2025 News Kaieteur News – Government is being accused of attempting to displace Policy Forum Guyana (PFG) from its long-standing responsibility for coordinating the selection of civil society representatives to the Multi-Stakeholder Group...
Will Guyana election end LGBTQ+ criminalisation in South America?
What’s the context? Parties contesting the Sept. 1 election broadly support ending the continent's last law that makes same-sex intimacy a crime. BERLIN - Most of the political parties running in Guyana's general election next week have promised...

New Great Diamond to Buzz Bee Dam highway another step towards fully connecting Guyana
-President Ali says at commissioning of $10.1B interconnecting thoroughfare -announces plans to extend it to facilitate travel to Soesdyke, Linden COMMUTERS can now look forward to improved travel and reduced congestion, as President, Dr Irfaan...

A Blueprint for Guyana’s Future
PRESIDENT Irfaan Ali’s rally at Sideline Dam in Stewartville is more than just typical campaign talk. It shows a deep understanding that Region Three has become a testing ground for Guyana’s change. His call to “crush ignorance” and “crush...

‘We are the only viable option to take Guyana forward’
–Nandlall positions PPP/C as the only party with a credible track record “SUPPORT us because we have delivered,” People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Executive Member and Attorney-General Anil Nandlall told East Coast residents on Monday evening,...