Guyana News

A Paramakatoi man was on Monday released on $150,000 bail after being charged with stealing $2 million.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) this afternoon signed the revised Cummingsburg Accord.

Shell Western Supply and Trading Limited was named today by the Department of Energy as the successful buyer of the first three cargoes of Guyana’s oil.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) was unable to locate 6,534 of the 16,863 new registrants recorded during the truncated national house-to-house (HtH) registration exercise.

Australian mining company Troy Resources Limited yesterday announced that it has secured needed capital for the immediate restart of its Karouni Gold Mine operations in Region Seven, for which it will be hiring workers.

Government yesterday confirmed that the Kingdom of Norway has released G$9.1 billion to the World Bank-run Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF), thereby completing its final payment under a landmark forest protection deal between the two countries.

French oil major Total yesterday announced it had signed an agreement for a stake in an offshore Suriname oil block and will pay a signing bonus of US$100 million on closure of the deal.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had approved the construction of a helipad at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara but is yet to process another application to develop part of the foreshore there as part of the project.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has recommended that no charge be filed against any of the primary school students accused of the rape of a fellow student.

ExxonMobil yesterday announced an oil find offshore Guyana at the Mako-1 well southeast of the Liza field, marking its 15th discovery in the Stabroek Block.

Up to yesterday there was no update by the Department of Energy (DE) on the results so far of the bidding process being used by government to sell first oil cargoes.

A Corentyne mechanic was arrested yesterday midday after he was busted with 46.250 kilogrammes (102 pounds) of cannabis at a roadblock in front of the Weldaad Police Station.

Encountering various challenges in their lives, most of the children of the Prabhu Sharan Orphange at Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara are trying their best to put their past behind and have started to show improvements in their academic performances. 

A young man will be spending the remainder of the year in jail as he awaits his sentence for the crime of stealing from his aunt’s boutique.

A South Ruimveldt man, who police say was found in unlawful possession of a pistol, has been granted his release on $100,000 bail.

A miner was granted bail yesterday after he denied stealing articles valuing $185,000.

The Guyana Police Force has issued an advisory on changes for some traffic routes today in regions Three, Four, Five and Six.

ExxonMobil today said it had made an oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Mako-1 well southeast of the Liza field, marking the 15th discovery on the Stabroek Block.

Up to Saturday, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) was able to verify approximately 55 – 60 per cent of the new registrants from the House to House (HtH) exercise.

Guyana has begun to publish a range of macroeconomic data on the National Summary Data Page (NSDP) on the Bureau of Statistics website.