Guyana News

While weeping and begging for mercy the estranged ex-husband of Babita Sarjou was yesterday sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison for her murder while his co-accused was sentenced to 18 and a half years for the same crime by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall who described their actions of killing the young woman and then burying her body in a shallow grave as “depraved”.

Ron Williams, a 29-year-old miner of Post Office Street, Queenstown, Essequibo Coast, who was busted with an unlicensed 12-gauge shotgun along with three 12-gauge cartridges by police ranks in Bartica, was today sentenced to two years imprisonment along with a fine of $200,000.

Population size was a key determining factor in government’s methodology for the distribution of money earned from Guyana’s sale of carbon credits, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo explained yesterday as he announced the first payment of $4.7 billion or US$22 million to 241 indigenous communities.

Giving an overview of the Wales Gas to Shore Project, the government yesterday emphasised profitability while announcing that $400 million has been set aside for land compensation and that ExxonMobil will be repaid US$55 million per annum for 20 years from cost oil, for its US$1.1 billion infrastructure input.

Minister of Local Govern-ment and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall, yesterday said that his ministry will have to review the $270 million contract for the Parika Market Complex which was in its second phase of rehabilitation when it was destroyed by a massive fire last Friday putting dozens of vendors out of business.

A Haslington, East Coast Demerara woman died yesterday after the car she was in ran into a trench.

Ranks from the Anti-Crime Patrol at the Mahaica Police Station found 90.58 kilogrammes (200 lbs) of suspected marijuana in a vehicle they intercepted at a roadblock at about 10.30 pm on Tuesday.

Prince Williams, a 44-year-old businessman of Lot 7 Canvas City Wismar, Linden was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck Türkiye and neighbouring Syria on February 6 2023, resulting in thousands of fatalities and the dislocation of thousands, the government here has taken a decision to donate US$50,000 to each of the two countries.

Wesley Hopkinson, the eight-year-old pupil of Two Miles Primary School who was involved in a car accident on the Bartica-Potaro Road has died one month after he was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation [GPHC].

The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) has accused Local Government Minister, Nigel Dharamlall of falsely accusing it of alignment with the opposition PNCR.

Historian Professor Tota Mangar is set to travel to New Delhi today for a conference at the invitation of the India International Centre (IIC).

The Trinidadian and St Vincentian Prime Ministers were today required to check in at the American Airlines (AA) counter at the CJIA despite an earlier request by the government here that they be afforded the courtesies via the VIP Lounge.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) today issued Wanted Bulletins for several persons for Acts of Terrorism, Contrary to Section 309 (A) (1) (b) (ii) of the Criminal Law (Offences) Act, Chapter 8:01 which occurred on the East Coast Demerara on the 28th June, 2022.

The parent company of Courts Guyana – Unicomer, yesterday announced a $25 billion (around US$120m) commercial investment for the East Bank of Demerara which will see the construction of a mega shopping complex and hotel along with a logistics yard to support small companies.

Three years after entering into petroleum production, Guyana has met less than half of the needed technical skills in the areas of engineering and environmental specialists and there is still a large deficit in relation to seafarers.

Currently producing a total of 380,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) from the Liza Destiny and Lisa Unity FPSOs in the Stabroek Block, ExxonMobil plans to optimise operations and further ramp up production to 400,000 bpd, some 60,000 bpd more than originally planned, the  company’s Vice President (Upstream), Liam Mallon, yesterday announced.

A week is approaching since a massive fire obliterated the Parika Market complex while it was in the second phase of  rehabilitation and the dozens of affected vendors are patiently awaiting the further intervention of the government after being promised a grant of $300,000 each by President Irfaan Ali on Monday.

Hoping to put the renegotiation of the controversial 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil to rest, President Irfaan Ali yesterday said that he has accepted that although the deal is lopsided, a move to revamp it would not only deflate investor confidence but halt the progress of development and hurt mostly locals.

Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Kemraj Parsram on Mon-day confirmed that his agency is currently reviewing Schlumberger Guyana Inc’s renewed application to operate a radioactive (RA) source storage and calibration facility at Houston on the East Bank of Demerara.