Guyana News

Businessman Peter Ramsaroop will be the new investment czar, sources close to the government say.

The Irfaan Ali-led PPP/C government yesterday inked the licence agreement for ExxonMobil’s US$9 billion Payara project in the Stabroek Block,  its first major oil & gas agreement since it took office on August 2. 

Twenty-nine companies on Tuesday responded to government’s retender for Request for Proposals (RFPs) to market Guyana’s share of oil from the Liza Destiny FPSO, and while ExxonMobil again did not submit a proposal, its partner in the Stabroek Block – Hess – was one of eight new companies vying to win the contract.

Talking up the benefits of the United States’ corporate investment portfolio, United States Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch has said that oil major ExxonMobil operates in line with its international standards, which Guyana should prioritise in all investments after doing its due diligence.

By Readawne Henery Police yesterday fired pellets and tear gas in a bid to remove squatters in the vicinity of  Success, East Coast Demerara who have overrun lands belonging to the sugar corporation, GuySuCo.

The Opposition APNU+AFC yesterday charged that the government has no strategy to tackle COVID-19 in Guyana and has referred to its management of the pandemic as appalling.

After managing to elude the police for almost five years, a 49-year-old man who is accused of murdering taxi driver Colin Clarke in 2015 was apprehended in Mahdia, Region Eight on Monday.

In wake of the recent unrest at the Lusignan Prison, inmates have raised a number of concerns—among them overcrowding at the penal facility which they say has become unbearable and frustrating.

Several bills lowering fees and another removing corporation tax on private health care in line with the 2020 budget were approved in the National Assembly on Tuesday.

Four months after Terry Danraj died in a motor vehicle accident at La Penitence, the truck driver involved in the accident has been charged with vehicular manslaughter.

A Canefield Settlement, East Canje Berbice, hire car driver, was arrested on Tuesday evening after he torched the house he once occupied with his partner and her daughter, which was located in Reliance, East Canje Berbice. 

A 26-year-old police constable stationed at the Tactical Services Unit (TSU), Eve Leary was on Tuesday night held at gunpoint and robbed of his XR motorcycle.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Around midnight on February 23, Eulalio Bravo, a marine electrician, was dozing in his rack aboard the San Ramon, an oil tanker anchored off the coast of Venezuela.

The Good Life Supermarket at Canefield, East Canje, Berbice, was burgled on Sunday evening for the second time in three months.  

Two more persons have died as a result of COVID-19 in Guyana while 48 new positive cases have been recorded.

President Irfaan Ali says that forensic evidence obtained by the police in the murders of teenaged cousins Isiah and Joel Henry has been sent to St.

Leroy Chacon was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment after he was found guilty of committing a sexual offence on the body of a woman at a mortuary.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) this evening said that as of  5 pm today, two other persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The Alliance For Change has summoned an emergency meeting for Sunday following the controversy at the Region Four elections where its candidate for Vice-Chair was rejected by its fellow APNU coalition members.

The PPP/C government this afternoon confirmed that the two international airports will reopen to commercial flights on October 12th.