Guyana News

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.

Acting head teacher of the Moblissa Primary School, Yonette Amsterdam has praised the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) Region Ten for what she has dubbed as the timely and important fixing of roads within the community.

Dr. Arron Fraser was on Saturday elected Presi-dent of the Queen’s College Old Students’ Association (QC-OSA) at an Extra-ordinary General Meeting at Queen’s College.

A Best Village, West Coast Demerara (WCD) man is in a critical condition after he was shot by a passenger in a car that was passing as he walked on the Crane Public Road yesterday.

Five persons were arrested during an intelligence-led operation in several East Coast Demerara (ECD) villages that unearthed an unlicensed gun and a quantity of drugs yesterday.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of a so far unidentified male of African descent, clad in short camouflage pants, blue jersey and a pair of fawn Clarks shoes.

While Norway has releas-ed all remaining payments from its forest protection accord with Guyana, the current APNU+AFC government cannot access the funds due to its current caretaker status and payments cannot be sanctioned until after the expected March 2nd general elections.

A search is now underway for three Corentyne, Ber-bice fishermen after a fellow crewmember was found dead and their unmanned boat, with evidence of blood, was recovered aback Cromarty Village, Corentyne, on Friday.

Going strong since pre-independence Guyana and famed for its cuisine, Shanta’s Puri Shop is facing its sternest test yet as the battle between two brothers for the building and their mother’s legacy has moved from the courts to the streets.

Facing huge deficits that could impair its financial sustainability, the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is eyeing investing overseas but Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has urged that it look closer to home in areas such as the housing sector that could prove lucrative.