Guyana News

Guyana’s Head of State, Irfaan Ali has urged world leaders to cast aside the “doctrinaire approach” towards achieving net zero by 2050, and devise realistic solutions as climate action cannot be to the detriment of the world’s developing countries and poorest people.

MovieTowne Guyana, located off the Rupert Craig Highway at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara, yesterday held the grand opening for their Ferris wheel just in time for the Christmas Season and in celebration of their 4th  anniversary.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday said that workers attached to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) received their wages and he strongly condemned the Opposition for being mischievous and peddling information that the workers were not being paid.

Traffic ranks received certificates on completion of a short ‘crash’ course facilitated by United Kingdom-based Accident Investigation specialist, Chris Goddard.

The Guyana Police Association on Friday in a show of support for the children of the late Woman Police Constable Annette Abel, made a monetary donation to the two young adults to assist with any of their needs at the moment.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods today rejected the International Energy Agency’s recent claim that using wide-scale carbon capture to fight climate change was an implausible “illusion”, saying the same could be said about electric vehicles and solar energy.

Recognizing the referendum which Venezuela had planned for tomorrow as a seriously “urgent,” “real” and “imminent” threat to the rights which Guyana currently has to the Essequibo, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued a warning of refrain to Venezuela.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday welcomed the World Court ruling ordering Venezuela not to take any action that interferes with Guyana’s control over the Essequibo and he urged Caracas to join this country in respecting international law.

Bevon Stephon Griffith of Lot 12 Dennis Street, Sophia, Georgetown, appeared before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Diamond Magistrate’s Court yesterday where he was charged with murder.

The Kilcoy, Corentyne man whose partly decomposed body was on Thursday morning found in his suspected attackers’ yard at Kilcoy, Corentyne, died from blunt force trauma to the head an autopsy revealed yesterday.

Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland KC yesterday pledged support for Guyana ahead of tomorrow’s referendum in Venezuela which she fears will challenge the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

The Organization of American States (OAS) with funding from the U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government of Jamaica has welcomed yesterday’s unanimous ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) barring Venezuela from altering Guyana’s control over the disputed Essequibo region.

The Central Immigration and Passport Office yesterday underscored its commitment to providing accessible passport services by reminding residents in Regions 2 (Pomeroon-Supenaam), 6 (East Berbice-Corentyne), 9 (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo), and 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) that they can apply for and collect their passports at the designated offices within their regions.

Venezuela must uphold the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Order of December 01, and comply with International Law in all respects, and the Charter of the United Nations, is what the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has stated it expects while emphasising that the Bolivarian Republic must take no action in violation of said laws.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday reiterated that his country does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the border controversy with Guyana.

The skeletal remains of a Berbice woman are believed to have been found some six months after she last made contact with her family.

The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) yesterday expressed sorrow at the passing of its former Director, Dr.

Twenty-one-year-old Leon Garraway of Lot 69 Norton Street, Lodge, Georgetown, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Magistrate Leron Daly charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition without a licence.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh yesterday welcomed the new Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB’s) General Manager for the Caribbean Country Department (CCB), Anton Edmunds and praised the Bank for its continued support to Guyana.