Guyana News

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday congratulated Mandel Moore on his recent promotion to Senior Police Legal Advisor.

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By Antonio Dey The caretaker of the neighbouring boys’ residence yesterday detailed how he helped to rescue girls from the burning Mahdia dormitory – including his daughter – after kicking down a door.

Thirty months after a key audit of ExxonMobil’s expenditure found that it improperly listed US$214m in expenses, the government on Thursday finally accepted the findings of the UK auditor and blame was shared for an apparent unauthorised attempt involving the American oil company to slash the disputed figure to as low as US$3m.

Thanking the Organisation of American States (OAS) for their work here during Guyana’s last General and Regional elections, Presi-dent Irfaan Ali yesterday underscored the importance of elections observ-ers in the preservation of democracy, as he promised that his government will ensure that their presence will always be an integral part of the country’s elections landscape.

The government is pushing ahead its education drive with the commissioning of a new secondary school at De Willem in Region Three, a release from the Ministry of Education said yesterday.

A female staffer attached to the Region Six council has been arrested as the probe into the $50m robbery committed at the RDC on Wednesday morning continues.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited has rejected insinuations that it is not complying with regulatory guidelines governing foreign exchange.

Farmers from Mashabo Mission on the Essequibo Coast will soon begin producing pineapple on a larger scale as the Ministry of Agriculture is scheduled to begin developmental works on 10 acres of land earmarked for the project.

Member of Parliament Sherod Duncan has been acquitted of a charge of using his computer to humiliate and cause emotional distress.

Ishmael Junior, a 29-year-old man from Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara, was arrested on Thursday by Police ranks on mobile patrol duties in the Providence Station district.

The police are trying to identify a suspected burglar caught on camera at Turkeyen on the East Coast of Demerara.

Keith Williams, a porter, appeared yesterday before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with using threatening language.

The Ministry of Education today announced an initiative to provide grants to teachers across the country to assist with procuring classroom resources; the aim being to bridge educational disparities.

Government pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh and three other persons, including two of his staff, were injured yesterday afternoon after the vehicle they were in lost control and slammed into a utility pole at Huis t’ Dieren Public Road, Essequibo Coast.

In a major climbdown, the government last night accepted that ExxonMobil and partners overstated their expenses for the period 1999 to 2017.

Despite publicly acknowledging the harmful effects of burning fossil fuel and its contribution to climate change in 2006, behind closed doors ExxonMobil was engaged in attempts to diminish public concerns and even obfuscate scientific findings that might negatively impact the oil and gas industry and the company’s bottom line.

Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony yesterday commissioned digital X-ray systems at the New Amsterdam, Port Mourant and Mibicuri hospitals in Region Six.

The bodies of two men were found yesterday after a boat mishap on Tuesday in the Upper Cuyuni River in the vicinity of Kurutuku Village, Region Seven.

A meeting yesterday in Washington between President Irfaan Ali and the US Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) focussed on this country’s development agenda and was highly informative and most welcomed, the Head of State says.