-Opposition Leader's claim ignores 68km of access roads, 62 bridges, and major ground works

Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed’s claim that the Government is preparing to spend $121 billion on “just 23 kilometres” of highway has been shredded by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), which has exposed major omissions in the cost comparison used to support the allegation.

In a video released Tuesday, Mohamed compared the estimated cost of the Versailles-to-Parika Four-Lane Highway with the

Guyana's climate resilience agenda is entering a phase focused increasingly on implementation, with an emphasis on ensuring that development is felt at the community level.

Senior Director of Climate Change at the Ministry of Natural Resources, Pradeepa Bholanath, says resilience must go beyond infrastructure and climate adaptation to improving the lives of people.

"Ultimately, resilience is not only about infrastructure, it's not only abo

-Newborn was stabilised and transferred as part of effective referral system

Enmore Regional Hospital has hit back hard at Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed’s account of a newborn’s transfer, flatly rejecting the suggestion that the facility was unable to provide care because it lacked neonatal ventilators.

In a statement issued Wednesday, Hospital Administrator Dr. Badyel Bakhsh said Mohamed’s account created a false impression that Enmore was unequipped to treat the critically ill newborn.

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The Bath Regional Hospital has marked one year since it was commissioned alongside five other new regional hospitals across the country. Since opening its doors in 2025, the facility has treated more than 60,000 patients and performed over 300 surgeries, providing residents with medical services and treatments that were previously unavailable in Region 5. 

Speaking exclusively with NCN News, Medical Superintendent Dr. Daniel Robertson said that of the more than 60,000 patients treat

More than 300 residents are now one step closer to homeownership following a house-lot distribution exercise conducted by the Ministry of Housing, through the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) in Region 5. The exercise follows Vice President Dr Bharrat Jagdeo's recent public day , during which residents raised housing-related concerns and sought assistance in securing house lots.

Residents were allotted low, moderate and middle income lots at Track A Waterloo and Track C

President Dr. Irfaan Ali has pledged to work with 49 schools to create greater opportunities for students pursuing agriculture, agro-processing and entrepreneurship. He made the announcement on Tuesday during an engagement at State House with students from the Bishop's High School, JC Chandisingh Secondary and Canje Secondary. 

The students participated in the Ministry of Education's recently concluded Agro-Processing and Value-Added Product Camp, which focused on equipping young