(Reuters) Exxon Mobil Corp said today it and partners would spend US$4.4 billion to develop part of the Liza oilfield off the coast of Guyana, approving a megaproject at a time when the oil industry has grown obsessed with lower-cost shale.
The police say they are making stringent efforts to apprehend two male suspects, one of whom is alleged to have murdered 40-year-old miner Orlando LaCruz of Pomeroon River.
BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) – India put on a display of composed and confident batting as they cruised into the final of the Champions Trophy with a nine-wicket victory over Bangladesh on Thursday, setting up a clash with old rivals Pakistan on Sunday.
Demerara completed the championship double after they retained the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/ Hand-in-Hand Under-19 Three-day title at the Everest Cricket Club Ground, yesterday.
West Demerara Secondary laboured to a 3-0 win over L’Aventure yesterday, when the 7th Annual Digicel Schools Football Championship, continued at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora, West Coast Demerara.
The Right Start Foundation in collaboration with BK International, presents a grand Fathers’ Day Football Classic tomorrow, at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground, Linden.
Government yesterday announced that it has issued a production licence to ExxonMobil for the Liza Field in the Stabroek Block saying that while quantifying oil in the well is not yet completed, it is estimated that there is as much as two billion barrels.
LEICESTER, England, CMC – Senior player Anisa Mohammed has praised the 17-day preparation camp in Southampton and says it has left West Indies Women equipped and focussed enough to win the upcoming ICC Women’s World Cup here.
The opposition PPP last night said that two Members of Parliament for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic, Dharamkumar Seeraj and Nigel Dharamlall, have recently received letters from the Consular Section of the Embassy of the United States of America, Georgetown informing them that their non-immigrant visas have been revoked.
ERIN, Wisconsin, (Reuters) – Rickie Fowler, a prime candidate to become the next in a long line of first-time major winners, fired a record-equalling seven-under-par 65 to seize a two-shot clubhouse lead in Thursday’s first round of the U.S.
Three years after the original application, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has granted the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) temporary approval to raise domestic rates for some of its services.
(Reuters) – World number one Andy Murray has voiced his support for changes designed to speed up tennis being tested at the inaugural Next Generation ATP Finals in Milan this November.
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo says that a proposal he made to amend the constitution to include non-nationals as nominees for the position of Gecom Chairman was rejected by President David Granger on Monday.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Claudio Ranieri, the veteran Italian coach who led Leicester City to their English Premier League title last season against all the odds, has taken over at Nantes, the Ligue 1 club said on Thursday.
Dear Editor,
Minister Jordan’s comments to Demerara Waves on June 5th touch on two critical and interlocking issues I had previously raised in the letters column.
A recent two-day business-to-business encounter between a delegation headed by the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce and a number of local companies seems set to pave the way for the long-anticipated strengthening of business and commercial ties between the private sectors of the two Caricom countries, Stabroek Business has been informed.
The APNU+AFC government yesterday tabled in Parliament a long-expected bill seeking to place a ban on smoking in indoor public places and disallowing the advertising of cigarettes.
MUMBAI, India, CMC – India have named a strong 15-man squad for the five-match One-Day International series against West Indies bowling off in Trinidad and Tobago next week.
The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) yesterday said that a Capitol News cameraman who was detained in the Kaieteur National Park (KNP) over the weekend had behaved in a “reckless and irresponsible” manner.
Port Kaituma is one of several gold-mining communities that has had to adjust to the vicissitudes of the gold-mining industry, not least the instability in gold prices and the attendant fluctuation of the fortunes of gold miners on the one hand, and the strengthening of environmental, safety and health and other regulations that compel a higher level of operational compliance on the other.
Dear Editor,
Actually, the trend of re-recruiting is a positive sign, particularly when it involves veterans, since there is just the hint that ‘other public servants’ could have similar expectations.
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says all the finance required to construct the national mulit-sports complex will come from the controversial Citizenship by Investment Programme (CBI).
ZURICH,(Reuters) – Soccer’s governing body FIFA promised on Thursday to take steps to stop what it called the mobbing of referees during the Confederations Cup in Russia this month as part of its so-called “play fair” initiative.
Dear Editor,
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo reportedly earlier today referred to a letter which gives me authorization to discuss the possible privatization of GuySuCo, in whole or in part with potential investors, and accuses the APNU+AFC government of misleading the Guyanese people and making a sham of consultations with stakeholders.
During the wee hours of yesterday, bandits broke into an electronics store located at Lot 10 B Albion Front, a few buildings away from the Albion Police Station and carted off close to $1.9M in cash and items.
STUTTGART, Germany, (Reuters) – Second seed Grigor Dimitrov slumped to a 7-6 (4) 6-3 loss to world number 155 Jerzy Janowicz at the Stuttgart Open on Thursday, with the Pole booking a surprise quarter-final spot.
(Jamaica Observer) – “To be honest, we were forced to. Sometimes you change things because you foresee things or because you are forced to,” said Ueli Bangerter.
Dear Editor,
I refer to a letter recently published in Stabroek News under the heading ‘Region 5 REO often circumvents the authority of the Regional Chairman’ penned by Harry Gill PPP/C Member of Parliament.
BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Bangladesh found India a step too far in the Champions Trophy semi-final on Thursday, losing by nine wickets with nearly ten overs to spare, and skipper Mashrafe Mortaza said they needed to toughen up mentally.
The visit last December to Guyana by officials of the Russian company RUSAL, the majority shareholder in the local company Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) in an effort to end a longstanding industrial relations’ dispute involving workers and management may have paved the way for an improved relationship between the two sides, General Secretary of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) Lincoln Lewis has told the Stabroek Business.
The National Toshaos Council (NTC) yesterday expressed concern that President David Granger chose to meet with the Amerindian People’s Association (APA) on Wednesday instead of it on the controversial Lands Commission of Inquiry (CoI)
On Wednesday, the Ministry of the Presidency announced that Granger had met with the APA and outlined a five-prong plan to ease a row over the lands CoI.
Former Minister of Education Dr Rupert Roopnaraine yesterday said he is comfortable with his reassignment and expressed absolute confidence in his replacement Nicolette Henry.
OSLO, (Reuters) – Sweden’s largest national pension fund, AP7, has sold its investments in six companies that it says violate the Paris climate agreement, a decision environmentalists believe is the first of its kind.
A nine-year-old local music school has been awarded a $1 million grant along with a one-year capacity-building support system through the Small Business Bureau (SBB) designed to equip the institution with the capacity to develop sound and prudent financial best practices in order to facilitate its continued financial growth.
OSLO,(Reuters) – World champion Dafne Schippers was involved in a bizarre women’s 200 metres at the Oslo Diamond League meeting on Thursday when the Dutchwoman false-started, was allowed to race and won, was then disqualified and finally reinstated.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – A commission of Venezuela’s opposition-controlled congress said yesterday the government overpaid $206 million for food imported from Mexico, stepping up criticism of its handling of a scarcity crisis that charities said is causing more malnutrition.
Dear Editor,
Whether the Enmore factory stands or not, whether sugar remains a productive part of the economy or not, whether it ceases to be produced or not, whether the family of the martyrs is still in Guyana or not, whether those of us who have championed this cause are around or not, Enmore Martyrs Day is indelibly etched in the social, cultural, economic and political fabric of this nation.
The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) was yesterday granted permission to intervene in the Marcel Gaskin matter which seeks clarity from the court on the President’s criteria for the selection of a Gecom Chairperson, including whether a judge must be among the nominees for the post.
Dear Editor,
Back in the seventies, King Sugar was considered a vital leg (together with bauxite and rice) of the tripod on which the economy stood, primarily because of the high demand and high price paid by foreign buyers for sugar.
(Reuters) – Hall of Famer and front office wizard Jerry West will leave his position as a special consultant with the Golden State Warriors to become an advisor for the Los Angeles Clippers, according to Sports Illustrated and several reports on Wednesday.
Despite murder accused, Steve Allicock’s claims of not being in the country when Wendell Tappin was murdered, the father of the deceased, Dan Tappin, who said he witnessed the killing, remained adamant that it was Steve, who stabbed his son.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate voted nearly unanimously yesterday for legislation to impose new sanctions on Russia and force President Donald Trump to get Congress’ approval before easing any existing sanctions on Russia.
The visit to Brazil in May by a delegation of heads of various state agencies including the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest), the Guyana National Bureau of Standards and the Lands and Surveys Department and the more recent visit here by a delegation of Trinidad and Tobago business leaders under the auspices of that country’s Chamber of Commerce were both focused, in large measure, on exploring trade and investment opportunities, which is among the issues that have featured in national discourses on the performance of the country’s economy and the prognosis for the future.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Former U.S. Open winner Samantha Stosur is in doubt for Wimbledon next month after suffering stress fractures in her right hand, Australian media reported today.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence stepped up Washington’s war of words with Venezuela yesterday, telling Latin American leaders the country was a prime example of what happens when democracy is undermined, and urging the region to condemn its government.
Dear Editor,
The new coach of the West Indies team, Stuart Law, has brought attention to the fact that our team is less experienced than the Afghanistan team in fifty over cricket at a time when India, the best cricket country in the world, is selecting its best fifty over team to tour the Caribbean to play a 50 over series.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has hired a lawyer known for defending government officials in high-profile investigations to help him with probes into whether there were ties between the election campaign of U.S.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 725’s trading results showed consideration of $2,132,670 from 16,726 shares traded in 11 transactions as compared to session 724’s trading results, which showed consideration of $655,570 from 1,553 shares traded in 7 transactions.
When Nurse Sherlyn Marks dropped a bombshell exposé to the media revealing that Region 5 Councillor Carol Joseph was involved in using the leverage of her office to gain access to prescription drugs, this led to the uncharacteristically (for Guyana) sudden resignation of Councillor Joseph not only from the Regional Administration but from the People’s National Congress Reform as well.
President David Granger last night saluted Britain’s support for the development of Guyana’s security sector and its struggle to preserve its sovereignty and territorial integrity.