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FORMER President David Granger comes across as a cool, calm and collected guy. Quite light spirited, thoughtful, a stickler for discipline and deliberative. I often heard terms like “Granger the chest grandmaster” and Granger “the Brigadier/strategist”, in reference to his politics. These may indeed aptly describe his interpersonal qualities which would make him an excellent […]

THE Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) has embarked on the Coastal Water Treatment Infrastructure Programme (CWTIP) to increase the treated water coverage to 90 per cent by 2025. This programme seeks to construct seven new large water treatment plants, 15 small plants, upgrading 12 existing plants and installing 200 kilometers of transmission mains to improve water

President Mohamed Irfaan Ali’s recent announcement that his administration will disburse, effective immediately, GY$100,000 one-off prosperity cash grants to every adult Guyanese, was greeted with much praise by almost everyone and for good reasons. The President also expanded the policy of a free education at the University of Guyana to include all government technical and

By Vanessa Cort THE well-appointed and landscaped Herdmanston Lodge was host to riotous blooms and plants of all descriptions last weekend. The two-day show saw the ‘plant ladies’ turn out in their numbers, some representing botanical nurseries, to show off and sell their flowering shrubs and house plants. The plants – from bougainvillea to cactuses

BEFORE President Irfaan Ali rose to address a special session of the National Assembly on Thursday, the APNU+AFC opposition led by Aubrey Norton, staged a protest some distance from the Arthur Chung Conference Centre. They had no idea what the President was going to announce. It turned out to be a bag of gifts that

DARK clouds have been hanging over Gaza and the West Bank for a year now. The only useful exercise the international community and media networks can perform, it appears, is to count the dead and report the grotesque statistics with precision, as if death and suffering on this scale can be measured in numbers. There

ON the 19 January, 2019, Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali was elected Presidential candidate of the PPP to contest against an increasingly unpopular David Granger administration. Dr Ali’s nomination was greeted by apprehension both inside and outside the PPP. Many felt that he was not ready, he was too rough around the edges and there were

AT the opening ceremony of the 2023 China International Import Expo (CIIE), Chinese Premier Li Qiang shared an inspiring story of Ali Faiz, a young merchant from Afghanistan, a country long plagued by war and in desperate need of development. Through CIIE, Ali brought to China handmade wool carpets from his hometown, each skilfully crafted

LAST week, President Irfaan Ali delivered two remarkable speeches at the United Nations General Assembly’s Sixth plenary meeting, 79th session in New York City. His speeches, interviews and engagements were eloquent elaborations of Guyana’s development trajectory which seeks to strike a balance between exploiting oil and gas resources, while adhering to a model of conservation