More than 6,500 small and medium-sized enterprises have been registered through the Small Business Bureau over the past six years, with government reporting encouraging survival rates among businesses receiving support.

Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Susan Rodrigues says expanded business clinics are also helping more entrepreneurs formalise and grow their operations.

The Bureau has also been monitoring businesses to assess their progress, with 75 percent of those visited over the past fiv

Amid ongoing El Nino conditions the Region Six RDC has assured that measures are being implemented to safeguard agricultural production and minimize the impact of the dry weather on farmers.

“We have been engaging with farmers on a day to day basis. Request that are made from farmers we are trying our utmost best to support them because we want to support agriculture. We want to support the growth of agriculture in the region. And like I said, we are doing everythi

Guyana’s Aeronautical Search and Rescue Plan (SAR), supported by round-the-clock arrangements and provisions for additional personnel, was activated minutes after the MV Barima emitted a distress alert. 

Director of Air Navigation Services at the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Rickford Samaroo, outlined this in his testimony before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the MV Barima tragedy on Monday.

Samaroo returned to tender three documents the Commission requested during his e

The Guyana Defence Force deployed a Bell 407 helicopter and an Islander aircraft in successive flights as part of the search-and-rescue operation following the July 18 MV Barima tragedy, the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (COI) heard on Monday.

GDF pilot Major Lloyden Layne testified that he departed Eugene F. Correia International Airport in the Islander after the Bell 407 helicopter returned from an earlier reconnaissance flight.

Appearing before the five-member Commission at the Arthur Chun

President Dr Irfaan Ali has announced restrictions on the importation of vapes and vaping products into Guyana, citing growing concerns about their potential health risks, particularly among children and young people.

The measure prohibits the importation of vapes of all kinds, except where approved by the Minister of Health or the National Tobacco Control Council or Tobacco Control Board.

President Ali said the decision reflects growing public concern about the wide

Motorists travelling through Linden will soon benefit from improved traffic circulation, with new roundabouts constructed at Millie’s Hideout and on both approaches to the new Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge. 

The developments are expected to ease congestion, improve road safety and support smoother movement across the mining town.

As Linden’s road network undergoes major transformation, new roundabouts are being introduced to better manage traffic and improve connectivity.

The rounda