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With first oil just months away and around six billion barrels of oil equivalent in the offshore Stabroek Block alone, the Director, Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe on Saturday said that a local oil refinery is not feasible at this point.
Former Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran has defended his sharp criticism of the CCJ for not issuing definitive orders in the no confidence motion case and he yesterday pointed out that the High Court here is now being approached for various rulings which should have been issued by Guyana’s top court.
Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) enforcement officers were ordered to remove two illegal dredges from the Kuyuwini River in Region Nine, GGMC Commissioner Newell Dennison has said.
A strong stance against corruption, full respect for the separation of powers and more public ownership rather than privatisation are key aspects of the governance section of the manifesto released last Thursday by the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP).
Hinterland education is being repositioned to help to eliminate inequalities, says President David Granger who has restated that oil revenues will ensure that free education from nursery to university becomes a reality.
Oxen-drawn punts, a Rolls Royce, and pest-fighting insects were among the highlights of a tour of the Albion Estate, which the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has been promoting as part of its cultural heritage tourism product.
Twenty-one youths were on Saturday night recognised for their contributions in various fields while 40 were awarded grants of up to $2 million and they were all charged to continue being role models and trailblazing agents of positive change.
Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon, yesterday visited the village of Aliki, Essequibo Islands- West Demerara (Region Three), where he provided a school boat for the students in the area as had been promised.
An Agricola man, accused of a series of armed robberies, was granted bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Friday.
A couple was charged at a city court on Friday after a former employee reported to the Ministry of Social Protection that they had not paid him after his work with them had been terminated.
A Computer Learning Resource Centre was commissioned yesterday at the Kimbia Primary School.
The court is expected to rule tomorrow on whether to recall a witness in the matter against former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) accountant Peter Ramcharran for alleged falsification of an account.
A labourer from Port Kaituma, accused of biting his wife on the forehead during a quarrel, was released on self-bail and the couple was ordered by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to seek counselling when the man appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Friday.
A Bartica man accused of stealing a metal grill door told a city court on Friday that he did not know he was stealing.
United States Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch has warned that the tenor of some of the ongoing advocacy for the local content policy for the oil and gas sector may make foreign investors feel unwelcome.
A 71-year-old pedestrian died on Friday evening after he was fatally struck by a car along the Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara Public Road.
Bandits on Friday afternoon shot a miner and robbed him of $2 million in cash, shortly after he made a withdrawal from a bank on the East Bank of Demerara.
A Guyana-born Toronto imam is among a number of Canadian Muslims who have been denied entry from Canada into the United States in what some immigration lawyers say is a growing trend.
The perennial poor state of the transport infrastructure in the South Rupununi makes travel risky in the sprawling savannah region and with disintegrating bridges and crumbling roads continuing to plague the area, residents are wondering if the authorities would ever heed their cries for improvement.
Guyana Golden Lives Organisa-tion (GGLO) in collaboration with the Wellness Centre has launched a Grief Support Project to bring comfort to bereaved children and adults.
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