Guyana News

With Guyana’s first oil production projected for next month, ExxonMobil yesterday announced that it will begin drilling three additional exploration wells in the Stabroek Block in the coming months, even as the company boasted of its success here during its third quarter earnings call.

A Harris Paints employee was yesterday charged with robbing the company of over $7 million in a hold-up just over a week ago.

President David Granger yesterday declared that all media houses should have access to state advertisements but suggested that these advertisement should be channeled to media houses based on the type of coverage they provide.

Four persons remained in police custody yesterday as investigators continued to probe the death of a 46-year-old mechanic, who it is claimed accidently shot himself on Wednesday evening at Goat Creek, Essequibo River.

A third man was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the recent murders of four Corentyne fishermen at sea. 

Police are probing the discovery of skeletal remains in a torched car at Mahaicony.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Lyndon Alves remains on administrative leave, which is likely to last until his retirement although he was recently cleared of any criminal conduct in an investigation into alleged corrupt practices, Police Commissioner Leslie James said yesterday.

A majority of the workers attached to the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) Blairmont Estate yesterday went on strike to call for an increase in their salaries.

The Salvation Army yesterday launched its annual Christmas Kettle appeal with the hope of topping the $9 million raised last year.

LaShawn Lewis, who remains unable to walk after being wounded in a shootout at La Penitence Market last month, was yesterday charged with the attempted murder of ex-policeman Teon Allen, called ‘Spoil Child,’ and remanded to prison.

A resident of Grove was yesterday sentenced to nine months in prison after he admitted to chopping a man who was taunting and provoking him.

The driver involved in the Essequibo Coast accident that claimed the life of 21-year-old pedal cyclist Govindra Persaud was on Thursday charged with causing his death.

With assistance from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Ministry of Public Health on Thursday officially launched its latest mass drug administration campaign to eliminate lymphatic filariasis.

The discovery of a mysterious substance oozing from the ground at the home of a Parika, East Bank Essequibo family, has led the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and other agencies to launch an investigation.

Guyana’s first Agri-Tourism Expo is underway and exhibitors are excited to have their locally made products on display.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) Leslie Sobers says that the regulatory body is preparing to initiate action in the High Court to recover over $10 million in fees from broadcasters.

Dipcon Engineering Services Limited has appealed a decision by Justice Damone Younge to set aside a default judgment handed down against Finance Minister Winston Jordan. 

A 38-year-old Bartica resident, who was tried in absentia, was on Thursday sentenced to six months in jail for stealing a metal grill door.

Republic Financial Holdings Limited (RFHL) today announced that it completed the acquisition of seven Scotiabank operations in the Caribbean yesterday.

A deal being hammered out between governing coalition partners APNU and the AFC to save the Cummingsburg Accord would see the AFC prime minister not becoming President were that position to become vacant.