Guyana News

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.

PPP General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo last week said that it was wrong for  one of  the party’s  councillors on the isle of Wakenaam to link access to a state cash grant with the purchase of tickets for a hotdog sale.

(Photos from Burna Boy’s official Facebook page) The long-awaited Burna Boy show has come and gone, leaving satisfied patrons still reminiscing about it.

On Tuesday, Trevon Samuels, 53, a labourer  of No. 28 Village West Coast, Berbice appeared at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Teriq Mohamed to  answer to the charge of wounding  Jaipaul Narine.

Machinery Corporation [MACORP] on Monday announced that nine technicians [eight males and one female] from its 16th Heavy Equipment Maintenance and Electric Power Generation Training programme graduated at MACORP’s Providence location last Friday.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited has taken what it describes as “a bold step forward” in digital financial literacy in youth by sponsoring students from several local high schools in the pioneering Sustainable Stock Market Game, a release from the bank stated yesterday.

– Lyte urges unions `For too long we have allowed the employers, our government, present and past to treat us like second and third-class citizens.

Declaring that his government is ”deeply rooted” in the working class, President Irfaan Ali yesterday asserted that it had created more 50,000 new jobs since August 2020.