Guyana News

Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Oil Company Limited (GUYOIL) Renatha Exeter yesterday defended the decision to terminate three contracts with a Trinidadian company.

Councillors of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday passed a motion for City Engineer Colvern Venture to resume his duties as City Engineer, pending a recommendation from the Local Government Commission (LGC) on whether he should be sanctioned for failing to hand over duties to his deputy before he proceeded on leave.

President of Beacon Foundation Patrick de Groot has said that the organisation’s inability to access oral morphine through the Ministry of Public Health has resulted in many of its cancer patients suffering in pain.

Following a walk on Sunday that 17-year-old Hadiyyah Mohamed and the Precious Angels Charity (PAC) organised to raise awareness of Rett Syndrome, the Pan-American Health  Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/ WHO) promised to partner with her.

Chief Justice Roxane George will render her decision tomorrow on whether the Cabinet of the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) government stands resigned, or is required to resign ahead of impending elections on March 2, 2019.

Effectively mobilised, civil society’s energies can have a positive impact on national elections, according to the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA).

A labourer, who police say was one of two men who wounded a man during a confrontation at Leopold Street, was remanded to prison yesterday.

A man charged with breaking the windows of his partner’s vehicle was ordered to perform community service after his partner asked the court to be lenient with him.

A gold dealer was shot dead this morning while two others were injured after armed bandits attempted to carry out a daring daylight robbery outside El Dorado Trading, Newtown, Kitty.

Oil major ExxonMobil says that it will not make any contributions to political parties for the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections. 

Suspected Corentyne pirate attack The body of another crewman from a missing Corentyne fishing boat was discovered yesterday along the foreshore at Good Faith, Mahaicony, bringing the death toll to two with two more fishermen still missing.

The operations of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) at Plantation Diamond are now being powered by Liquid Natural Gas (LNG).

A man, who was walking on Church Street, Queenstown, Georgetown, on Saturday night, was choked to death by a 24-year-old man during a suspected robbery.

Local company GuyEnergy’s proposed modular oil refinery in Linden, Region 10, is slated to be completed next year and if the firm wants to purchase some of Guyana’s share of oil expected from the operations of ExxonMobil, it will have to pay “maximum value.”

A Timehri, East Bank Demerara cash crop farmer who willingly agreed to try onion farming when the National Agricultural Research & Extension Institute (NAREI) approached him, is happy that the crop is “coming ‘A’ one.”

Dozens of People’s Progressive Party (PPP) supporters descended on the Saraswati Vidya Niketan’s secondary school graduation ceremony attended by President David Granger yesterday as the opposition party continued its campaign of protests against the caretaker government.

Bids are being invited for the excavation of eight outfalls in Georgetown.

According to Chairman of Region One, Brentnol Ashley, a $264 million solar power farm built in the region is being reclaimed by the forest without having lit one bulb.

Surinam Airways yesterday announced that it will add a fourth non-stop flight to Miami, USA beginning from November 4th.

The Government of Guyana through the Department of Culture will host a second phase of consultations on a national cultural policy from October 15-17, 2019 at the Hotel Tower, commencing from 9 am daily.