Guyana News

Following ExxonMobil’s US$12.7 billion Final Investment Decision (FID) for the Uaru project in the offshore Stabroek Block, the company constructing the Floating Production Storage and Offshore (FPSO) vessel to be used for it announced that it will proceed with engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI).

Calvin Johnson, who along with another man, had been accused of the 2016 gunning down of Paul Rodney, had been cleared of the murder.

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) yesterday announced that it is far advanced in its plans for the holding of its Annual General Meeting (AGM) slated for Sunday at which office-bearers will be elected for the next two years.

In a bid to recoup the $1 billion owed to rice millers by the Panamanian government, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said, Guyana is preparing to file legal action before the International Chamber of Arbitration in France.

Six Guyanese were among 35 delegates from ten different countries who benefited from the 9th Gen-Next Democracy Network Programme hosted by India as part of its 75th independence anniversary celebrations.

Calvin Lawrence, a 20-year-old bartender of Lot 101 Leopold Street, Georgetown was yesterday remanded to prison after he pleaded not guilty to three counts of robbery under arms.

The new High Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Australia to Guyana, Sonya Koppe on Tuesday handed over her Letters of Credence to President Irfaan Ali in a ceremony at the State House in Georgetown.

Twenty-three-year-old Tenisha Lawrence, a teller at the Guyana Bank For Trade and Industry was yesterday charged with fraud and released on $350,000 bail.

Parents on the East Coast Demerara recently benefited from a workshop hosted by the Early Childhood (Nursery) Unit of the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) in collaboration with the Department of Education – Region Four under the theme, “Parents, the Child’s first teacher”.

A 30-year-old labourer of Onderneem-ing Village, West Coast Berbice was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with attempted murder.

On Tuesday the New Amsterdam Prison through is training programme in the field of joinery donated several desks and benches to the St.

Government has urged the contractors building the $1.8 billion Georgetown to East Coast Demerara (ECD) mid-town highway connecting the East Coast highway to Dennis Street and Dennis Street to Sheriff Street, to put more effort into completing the project by August, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Newly appointed Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Brigadier Omar Khan has commenced a series of visits and interactions with ranks and civilian employees serving at all of the main bases.

The Environmental Protec-tion Agency (EPA) has filed its appeal against the ruling of High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon that it had breached the Act and shirked its legal responsibility in failing to enforce the liability clause in the permits issued to ExxonMobil Guyana for its offshore oil operations.

The team from the company contracted to produce E-ID cards for residents of this country is here and has declared that the data technology to be used will be a first globally, President Irfaan Ali last evening announced.

By Subhana Shiwmangal The wife of Police Prosecutor Corporal Hemchand Sukhna is calling for justice with regard to the second attack on her husband by a person or persons carrying firearms last Saturday night.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) contends in court action it has filed that the decision of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to change the boundaries of 37 constituencies 19 Local Authority Areas is unlawful.

The suspect in the gruesome murder of educator and entertainer Kirwyn Mars aka Sir Mars has been arrested.

Even as the local European Union (EU) office prepares for the visit of Executive Vice President of the Euro-pean Commission Frans Timmermans, teams of electoral experts from the EU are here to discuss reforms ahead of general elections in 2025.