From the Blog

[www.straoeknews.com] – Digicel donated building materials and assisted in constructing a basketball court fence for the Kwakwani community on February 21 as part of their 7th anniversary celebrations. The materials, according to a press release from Digicel were donated to the Kwakwani Interest Team after a request was made to build a fence around their basketball […]

[www.stabroeknews.com] – After hours of trekking along the streets of Georgetown in an attempt to wow not only the judges but celebrating Guyanese on Sunday, the Digicel band is among this year’s big winners of the 2014 Mashramani Costume and Float Parade. Judges have chosen to award 16 of the 28 participating bands, which were […]

[www.stabroeknews.com] – A meeting between the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and main opposition coalition APNU, aimed at brokering a compromise on the anti-money laundering amendment bill ahead of Friday’s deadline for passage, ended in a stalemate yesterday. “There is still a possibility of doing what would be required to pass the legislation… that would take […]

[www.stabroeknews.com] – A strong batting performance by the Beterverwagting (BV) Primary school led to them being crowned Lower East Coast (LEC) Champions, even as three other teams became zone champions in the latest action in the Scotiabank Kiddy Cricket Festival. Yesterday’s games in the LEC were all about playing to become champions of the zone.  […]

[www.stabroeknews.com] – While Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority Khurshid Sattaur has been touting the recently instituted Random Selection of Imported Goods for Examination exercise as a means of impacting positively on the level of transparency associated with Customs inspections of imports, the private sector has been expressing its own sometimes divergent views on […]

[www.stabroeknews.com] – A second commercial bank has signed on to the Low Carbon Micro and Small Enterprise Develop-ment Project (LCMSEDP) being administered from within the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, paving the way for significantly enhanced access to lending for medium and small enterprises registered with the project. Derrick Cummings, Chief Executive Officer of […]