Guyana News

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors say an Israeli private investigator used hackers to steal emails from climate activists who were campaigning against American energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N.

ExxonMobil told President Irfaan Ali that it never told the opposition that the IHS Markit audit’s questionable sums were reduced from US$214 million to US$3 million and that government had agreed to it, Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday visited the site of the Gas to Energy project at Wales on the West Bank of Demerara and as sand was being stockpiled to consolidate the ground for pile driving, he was told that the first phase of the project should be completed by mid next year.

Nandanie Nimar, 25,  of Lot 260 Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara  was yesterday charged with causing the death of Pulwantie Ramjan by dangerous driving.

A Corriverton market labourer who was accused of murdering Lochan Persaud Kamaldeo, a vagrant, was yesterday freed at the High Court in Berbice.  

Millions of dollars went up in flames last evening at the home  of Region Two Councillor, Vierna Rasheed at Queenstown village.

Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir, has been denied the stay he was hoping for of  a $7.5 million judgment imposed against him for defaming former diplomat and board member of Guyana Power & Light (GPL), Kirk Hollingsworth.

President Irfaan Ali has mandated the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) to establish a Special Secretariat to handle its 10,000-plus backlogged local cases as well as those that originate from in the Diaspora.

The body of Romeil Delgado, a one-year-old toddler of Paruima Village, Upper Mazaruni Village, Region Seven was recovered from the Kamarang River at ‘Top Side’ Paruima falls on Wednesday night.

Ancel Lewis of Lichfield, Berbice recently turned 100 and has been hailed by the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security.

Shameer Juman, a 49-year-old labourer of 13th Avenue Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara was yesterday jailed for two years for malicious damage to property.

On October 11, 2023, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) held a ceremony to present a posthumous award to Pauline Chase and Serita Chase, daughters of the late attorney Ashton Chase SC.

Region Two Chair Vilma De Silva is requesting answers from the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) company as it relates to the frequent power outages experienced by the region.

Truck drivers at Sinohydro Corporation Limited went on a brief strike yesterday over  a delay by the company in the payment of wages.

The Ministry of Public Works yesterday said it is aware that multiple persons were seen cutting trees on the southern carriageway, opposite the Shell Gas Station at Ogle, East Coast Demerara.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors say that an Israeli private investigator used hackers to steal emails from climate activists who were campaigning against American energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N.

Drivers and passengers are being advised that Providence Road (Red Road) has been blocked off from the entrance on the East Bank Public Road up to Massy Stores.

Former Public Works Minister David Patterson yesterday said that the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) has said that it has launched a probe into the contentious $865 million Belle Vue, West Bank Demerara, pump station contract awarded to the Tepui Group.

GTT, the Ministry of Health and several non-governmental cancer support organizations are to sponsor more than 2500 free mammograms to members of the public who qualify.

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government has fulfilled its promise of providing 50,000 jobs during its present term, even though it was seen by some as a “pipe dream.”