Political commentator Ramon Gaskin has appealed the ruling of Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire that Hess Guyana Exploration Ltd (Hess) and CNOOC Nexen Petroleum Guyana Ltd (Nexen) do not need separate environmental licences from co-venturer ExxonMobil to conduct oil production here.
The police are currently pursuing two suspects in connection with the murder of Cuban butcher Ofredis Duarte Campos, who was fatally shot during an attempted robbery on Thursday morning.
The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) today announced that the company’s kiosk in the Giftland Mall has started solely cashless bill payments at the location following a gunpoint robbery.
The Ministry of the Presidency today said that the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will, at midnight on Saturday, February 22, 2020, conduct a fireworks display in the vicinity of the Stabroek Square in observance of Guyana’s 50th Republic Anniversary.
The April 2018 piracy attack off of Suriname which claimed the lives of at least 12 Guyanese was a well-organised operation as a result of a turf war over fishing grounds.
According to the Department of Public Information (DPI), President David Granger this morning commended the “smooth voting process” by the disciplined services who are casting their ballots for the upcoming General and Regional Elections today.
Guyana Industrial Minerals (GINMIN), a subsidiary of United States-based First Bauxite (FBX), yesterday commissioned its mine and processing plant at Bonasika, Demerara River, in Region Three, and pledged that the US$100 million investment would be a world-class operation.
The launch of a US$2m agro-processing centre and cold storage bond yesterday is only the beginning of the transformation of the shuttered Wales Sugar Estate into a 200-acre Agro-Industrial Park which will see residents from nearby villages benefiting from the investment.
There are pending enquiries from over 100 United States-based businesses about setting up operations in Guyana, Political and Economic Affairs Chief at the United States Embassy in Georgetown, Alexandra King Pile disclosed yesterday.
A young Cuban family is in a state of shock after their sole breadwinner, a butcher of Rossignol Butchery was gunned down yesterday morning in a suspected robbery attempt while on his way to work.
The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) last night condemned the recent decision of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to reduce the number of Polling Places especially in the Party’s strongholds.
Confident that his US$100M Pegasus Suites and Corporate Centre project will thrive and insisting that he isn’t threatened by branded hotels being established here, hotelier Robert Badal yesterday blazed both the past and current governments for what he called the “alienation” and discriminatory treatment of local investors.
With Guyana’s General Elections coming shortly before the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) hearings on the Venezuela border controversy, this country’s representative at the deliberations, Sir Shridath Ramphal yesterday appealed for national unity as a demonstration to the world.
The suspect in the 2017 murder of a Plaisance, East Coast Demerara welder, was arrested on Wednesday by the police and has reportedly confessed to the murder.
Shemar Moore and Kevin Rose were yesterday committed to stand trial at the High Court for the murder of Patrick Fraser, called ‘White Boy,’ who was gunned down while liming with friends at an abandoned house at Bagotstown last year.
Rape accused Stephen McCurdy now faces a possible retrial after a jury was yesterday unable to arrive at a verdict on the indictment levelled against him.
One day before they cast their ballots in the 2020 General and Regional members of the disciplined forces were the subject of appeals from the two major political parties.
A Port Kaituma businesswoman who is accused of trying to dispose of 3.2 grammes of cocaine before a police search was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $70,000 on a charge of possession of narcotics for trafficking.
A thirty-four-year-old Cuban immigrant was killed minutes to seven this morning in what was believed to be an attempted robbery on Middle Street while on his way to work.