The latest Guyana news from Stabroek News including oil and gas coverage, crime, politics, culture, business and more.
By Joseph Allen During a fact-finding mission mounted by the government, residents of Chinese Landing in the north west were adamant that miner Wayne Vieira must be removed from their lands.
The Suddie Public Hospital is now equipped with a new $35 million state-of-the-art digital X-ray machine.
After a 48-hour notice was issued to vendors who are operating along the Corriverton Public Road to move, Mayor Imran Amin on Friday gave the assurance that the stalls will not be bulldozed as was being alleged.
Four hundred and eighty-six persons from the Region Ten community of Wismar, Linden, graduated from the Guyana Police Force (GPF) Academy ZARA Computer Centre at its Wismar location on Saturday.
The police are investigating an accident that occurred on Tuesday night on the Nabaclis Public Road, East Coast of Demerara (ECD) which claimed the life of a 17-year-old motorcyclist.
New Central High came out on top of an upcycling competition to transform discarded non-reusable glass bottles into functional art pieces.
Interviews and photos by Subhana Shiwmangal Stabroek News spoke to residents of Swan and Moblissa on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway about the cost of living and how it is affecting them.
Chinese company Rong-An Inc has submitted an application to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for permission to conduct logging within the Upper Berbice District, Region No.6.
Ten families from Warapoka in the Moruca Sub-District, Region One, are set to benefit from new homes totalling $40 million through the government’s Hinterland Housing programme.
Controversial former Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Justice James Patterson passed away yesterday at his Century Palm, D’Urban Park, Georgetown home after a period of illness.
Promising to not only train locals to take over and “revolutionize” monitoring of the extraction of their country’s oil and gas, local tech company, e-Magic, on Friday entered into a partnership with Ghanaian-based West Coast Gas for over US$10 million in the short term.
An 18-year-old was yesterday morning stabbed to death while trying to be a peacemaker.
Notice has been served by the Integrity Commission to 184 persons in the regions of their failure to submit statutory declarations but silence prevails over senior public servants and politicians who had been given a July 31st, 2023 deadline to comply, failing which they would face fines and jail terms.
There will be no further extension to the September 12 auction as the entire regulatory framework which will facilitate the process has been completed, Vice President (VP) Bharrat Jagdeo declared on Friday.
The suspect who surrendered to the police yesterday has admitted to stabbing Eric Fraser, called ‘50 Cent’, a 42-year-old construction worker of Haslington North, East Coast Demerara, on Thursday.
Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday announced to farmers in Region Six that he is currently discussing the possibility of insuring farmers’ crops as his ministry continues to work to transform the agriculture sector.
As the Data Protection Bill was read in Parliament on Thursday morning, members of the National Assembly heard that it had been endorsed by both a foreign expert and Guyana’s Law Reform Commission.
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has announced that the Albion/Port Mourant estate has again surpassed its weekly production target for the 2nd Crop of 2023 in the week ending August 12.
By Joseph Allen A West Ruimveldt family remains in shock at the killing of a peacemaker and the wounding of another after armed enforcers tried to evict a family from a nearby home.
The first meeting of the new Mayor and City Council is to be held tomorrow.
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