Guyana News

Chevron has agreed to buy Hess for US$53 billion in stock to gain a bigger US oil footprint and a stake in rival ExxonMobil’s massive Guyana discoveries in a move which will bring another US super-major to the Stabroek Block.

The Government of Guyana yesterday said that the upcoming national referendum in Venezuela on this country’s county of Essequibo would be tantamount to annexation of territory and a crime of aggression.

Announcing the launch of an investigation, the government yesterday in a press statement warned that miners culpable of illegally purchasing and selling gold to unlicensed dealers/ traders are liable to prosecution and shall be restricted from the mining industry.

The man who is accused of stabbing his common-law wife to death was last Thursday remanded to prison when he appeared in the Mahdia Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Sunil Scarce on a charge of murder.

The Ambassador-designate of the United States, Nicole D. Theriot presented her credentials yesterday to President Irfaan Ali at the Office of the President.

The Guyana Police Force is investigating the removal of sand from a burial ground located at Murphy Dam Cemetery, West Bank Berbice which resulted in several tombs disappearing.

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand yesterday  afternoon commissioned a brand-new dormitory at Leonora, West Coast Demerara With the establishment of the $75 million facility, students in riverine communities will no longer have to travel far distances daily to receive a secondary education, a release from the Ministry of Education said.

The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) Guyana yesterday announced that it had joined forces with key stakeholders, the telecommunications service providers GTT, Digice, and ENet to announce the implementation of Number Portability.

Senior Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh yesterday commended the Board and staff of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) for disposing of all 14,000 inherited pending claims since the People’s Progressive Party Civic’s (PPP/C) returned to office in 2020.

A Good Hope family is now mourning the loss of a 16-year-old boy who was struck down by a speeding minibus on his way to his grandmother on Sunday morning.

A man who allegedly attempted to murder another was yesterday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate (ag) Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus.

In keeping with the Ministry of Education’s vision to transform the education sector, a smart classroom was yesterday commissioned at the Stewartville Secondary School.

Saheed Khan, a 24-year-old construction worker of Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice (WCB) who was arrested last Thursday over the attempted murder of Leon Bristol was granted $350,000 bail yesterday.

Berbice engineer, Neil Madramootoo, was yesterday charged with the attempted murder of his fiancée, Ashmin Mahadeo, and placed on $500,000 bail.

Former West Indies captain, Sir Clive Lloyd, has lost a defamation suit he had filed against the Guyana Chronicle a year ago, and has been ordered to pay the newspaper company costs in the sum of $750,000.

On Friday, eighty-two  persons from all the regions of Guyana graduated from the Ministry of Health’s Patients Care Assistant, Orthopaedic Technician and Operating Room Technician programme which is being offered via the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

Gold miner Kurt Smith, 45, appeared before Magistrate Rhondel Weever at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday, charged with robbing a woman of over $1m and was remanded to prison after a not guilty plea.

An Enforcement Officer who allegedly discharged a firearm within 100 yards of a public way on October 20th 2023 at Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke-Linden Highway was granted bail of $80,000 after pleading not guilty to the charge of discharging a loaded firearm.

Berbice engineer, Neil Madramootoo, was today charged with attempted murder of his partner when he appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Chevron CVX.N agreed to buy U.S. rival Hess HES.N