Guyana News

With projections for the production of 220,000 barrels of oil per day from 2023 and 500,000 by 2025, ExxonMobil yesterday said that the Houston, East Bank Demerara shore base alone will not suffice and has advertised for firms to show their onshore support services capabilities.

With more COVID-19 vaccines slated for Guyana and the government hoping to move to the second tier of persons for vaccination, a minimum age to qualify has been announced.

A suspect was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of Keith Andrew Willis, a Bachelor’s Adventure man who was found murdered a short distance away from his home last December.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) in an effort to address the large number of issues faced by the public related to compliance has launched Compliance Month with effect from March 1st to the  31st.

A neighbour was yesterday charged and remanded to prison over the murder of Clifton Bhagwandat, a horse cart operator who was stabbed over a pack of cigarettes.

A ruling handed down yesterday by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has rejected a challenge to the renaming of the Ogle Airport to the Eugene F Correia International Airport (EFCIA).

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Monday stated that he would not endorse the 2021 National Budget as it was visionless and disconnected from the ordinary man in the country.

Following submissions by both Guyana and Venezuela, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is expected to set timelines for submissions related to the border controversy being heard in The Hague, Netherlands.

Retired Major-General Norman McLean has voiced concerns to Mayor Ubraj Narine over the state of the Le Repentir Cemetery, which he says has become a virtual dump.

The provision of $8.4 billion in the 2021 budget to be spent on Guyana’s power generating sector will pave the way for the Irfaan Ali-led government to achieve its objective for affordable, stable and reliable energy throughout the country, Prime Minister Mark Phillips said on Monday as he made his budget presentation.

Testing has begun on the faulty flash gas compressor which had to be resent to the manufacturers in Germany last month, ExxonMobil stated yesterday while reiterating that flaring continues daily offshore at some 16 million cubic feet of gas per day.

Nicaraguan authorities said yesterday the bodies of six people, apparently migrants, have been found in a small boat drifting off its Caribbean coast, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is investigating an allegation that one of his officers was a victim of sexual assault.

Two Aquafina Water Delivery Service staffers were robbed yesterday in an attack at Dazzell Housing Scheme by two men, including one armed with a handgun.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has withdrawn the murder charge against one of the accused in the murder of building contractor Peter Gonsalves.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the charge against four men over the 2019 murder of a Better Hope, East Coast Demerara money changer and his daughter will continue today, when the last six witnesses are expected to testify.

Law enforcement authorities in Jamaica announced today that they have unearthed over a hundred packages with more than 300 pounds of cocaine in containers from Guyana at the Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited (KFTL).

Rudolph Small has been removed from the post of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC).

The Ministry of Health today said that another person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

Guyana will receive 20,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from China today while another 80,000 are expected next Monday from India.