Guyana News

Prime Minister Mark Phillips met with the Ambassador of the European Union (EU) to Guyana, René van Nes,, at the Office of the Prime Minister on Camp Street in Georgetown on Thursday.

Eighty persons who were allocated moderate-income and middle-income lots at Great Diamond-Block One (Section One) participated in a lot identification exercise led by the agency’s Surveys Unit yesterday morning.

The Police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for Kalvin Murray for questioning in relation to the rape of a child under 16 years.

The lawyer for a New Amsterdam, Berbice businessman has written to Kaieteur News (KN) calling for the retraction of a news item where he was mistakenly identified as controversial Chinese middleman Su Zhirong.

Ramsay Ali, Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Products Limited has been re-elected unopposed as President of  the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA).

Seventy-five local public health and clinical practitioners were on Monday  awarded certificates by the Pan Caribbean Partnership (PANCAP) against HIV and AIDS  for successfully completing the University of Washington Global Health E-learning Programme on Monday, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release stated yesterday.

A second action filed by Danuta Radzik over the granting of a waiver for an environment survey to the Gas-to-Shore project was yesterday dismissed by  Justice Simone Morris-Ramlal who ordered Radzik to pay costs in the sum of $200,000 to the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB).

Approximately 1,000 men are set to benefit from  training opportunities through the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security’s ‘MPOWER’ training programme.

(Reuters) ExxonMobil will take 18 to 24 months to achieve its full production synergies from its US$60 billion purchase of US shale oil producer Pioneer Natural Resources, the company’s top shale executive said yesterday ExxonMobil this week closed all-stock acquisition after agreeing to an antitrust consent order that barred the former Pioneer CEO from joining its board and is moving in the coming weeks to combine operations that will form the largest oil producer in the Permian basin.

The Ministerial Taskforce on Trafficking in Persons, comprising representatives from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, and the Guyana Police Force, conducted a comprehensive training and sensitization outreach in Region 7 from April 26th to 29th, 2024.

Glendon Fordyce appeared before Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court 2 yesterday charged with converting $4m to his own use.

Police in Regional Division 4’C’ are investigating a serious accident which occurred on Thursday at about 19:50 hours on the Unity Old Road, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara that has left 31-year-old Emel Robinson of Mosquito Hall, Mahaica, hospitalised suffering from a fractured skull.

Former President of the Caribbean Development Bank and former Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Professor Compton Bourne is Guyana’s Ambassador-designate to Brazil. 

CARICOM’s agency for crime and security has advised regional governments of a possible Islamic State threat to the upcoming men’s T20 World Cup in June which will be played in Guyana, other parts of the Caribbean and the United States.

Commentator Christopher Ram has said that the Guyana Government should seek to acquire Hess’ 30% share in the lucrative Stabroek Block which is currently at the centre of a dispute between two American oil majors: ExxonMobil and Chevron.

-cites `alarming’ increase in online attack on media workers As the Guyana Press Association (GPA) observes World Press Freedom Day 2024 today, it said that the country is facing an environmental crisis.

The government is planning to upgrade the two-lane road from the Linden/Soesdyke Junction to the Timehri Police Station into a four-lane carriageway.

-Heads of Western missions say in joint statement Given the environmental crises facing Guyana, journalists must have access to more data and science to accurately report to the public, heads of Western missions here said in a joint statement yesterday to mark World Press Freedom Day today.

As gas delivery for Guyana’s ambitious power project draws closer, ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) is gearing up for brief shutdowns of two of its Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) platforms.

Four persons were robbed yesterday morning in D’Urban Backlands after returning home from the Burna Boy Show.