Guyana News

The Chairman and Board of Directors of Banks DIH Limited on Friday announced the recent appointment to the Board of Directors of Banks DIH Limited, of Gavin Todd, as Operations and Engineering Director.

A variety of medical training programmes targeting young Guyanese will soon be commencing.

Lloyd’s Register (LR) and MatPal Marine Institute Inc. yesterday announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Under-standing (MoU) to jointly support safe maritime training in Guyana.

JR Ranch Inc., a local company that has interests in the construction, security and real estate sectors, has announced a name change to Condor Consortium Inc.

A mason was yesterday sentenced to six months in jail after being on remand for a robbery he confessed to last September.

The police in Berbice have arrested two men who are accused of stabbing two other Corentyne men outside of a wedding house in Number 69 Village, Corentyne, during the wee hours of Sunday.

A Mon Repos Market jeweller was yesterday robbed of a quantity of gold jewellery by three bandits, one of whom was armed with a firearm.

SBM Offshore on Thursday announced that Guyanese business and finance specialist Martin Cheong will be appointed to the post of General Manager of SBM Offshore Guyana, effective March 1, 2022.

Former taxi driver Faizal Bacchus now awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to the 2015 killing of proprietor of the Regent Multiplex Mall Ganesh Ramlall, who was popularly known as ‘Boyo.’

A search and rescue mission was underway yesterday for three fishermen after their Noble House Seafoods trawler capsized on Saturday morning some 18 miles off the Mahaicony Coast.

More than a year after it first saw the IHS Markit audit of the US$460m in pre-contract costs claimed by ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, EEPGL, the PPP/C government says it is finalizing queries of “lumped” sums and investigating costs of items such as risers and the process should be completed in weeks.

Project Manager of the Hope Energy Development (HED) Inc, Johan Sydow said that with the incorporation of a solar aspect into the Hope wind farm, they are now in a position to offer power in the vicinity of US$0.07 per kilowatt-hour.

Two persons were injured after a car slammed into a restaurant in New Amsterdam last evening.

With Guyana seeking to diversify its faltering sugar industry and the PPP/C reopening closed estates, General Electric’s (GE) Regional Product Director John Ingram advised that ethanol can be used to aid the transition to renewable energy and he was bullish on the proposed use of natural gas here.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that an unvaccinated Region Four woman, 80, died on February 20 after testing positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Two Corentyne men have been held over the raiding of a tomb at Hampshire Cemetery on Thursday evening.

The decision to reverse the EPA’s non-requirement of an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the new Demerara River Bridge lies solely with the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) according to EPA’s Executive Director Kemraj Parsram.

The Civil Aviation Training School, Air Navigation Services, on Friday held a Graduation Ceremony for 17 Aeronautical Information Management Officers (AIMO) who completed the course in 2021.

Addressing questions about the staffing complement at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony said that while the country’s premier health institution is adequately staffed, it is expected that the Festival City Polyclinic would reduce its outpatient load.

On Friday 18th of February 2022, CANU officers intercepted a male passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri who was about to travel on Jet Blue Airways Flight 2166 destined for JFK, New York.