Guyana News

Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) David Patterson has filed a motion for the National Assembly to call on the PPP/C government reverse its decision to end negotiations with ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Ltd (EEPGL) to have its parent company provide unlimited liability insurance for possible oil spills.

Executives of Russian Aluminum (RUSAL) and a government team are expected to meet soon on the company’s plans for resuming Bauxite production here, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat has said.

Police in Regional Division #3 have impounded three donkeys which were removed from along the West Coast Demerara Public Road, according to Regional Commander Errol Watts, who has said they are being given proper care.

A Charlotte Street man was on Friday denied bail after being charged with stealing articles amounting to over $400,000 from a man’s car.

An attendant of a mechanic’s shop was yesterday released on $90,000 bail after he denied stealing a customer’s iPhone from his car.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Friday presented a telecommunications licence to a new local tele-communications provider, Green Gibraltar.

Persons diagnosed with Down syndrome may be more prone to suffering the severe illness from coronavirus (COVID-19) if they are not vaccinated. 

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) on Friday announced that its Industrial Metrology and Testing (IMT) Laboratory is now accredited to the International Standard ISO/IEC 17025:2017 – General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories.

Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Member of the Council of the Ministers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is to visit Guyana tomorrow.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips presented a telecommunications licence this afternoon to a new local telecommunications provider, Green Gibraltar.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of February 17th, 2022, five more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Following the recent announcement that the Enmore packaging plant will be utilized towards the oil and gas sector, sugar union GAWU says it wrote GuySuCo yesterday seeking clarification.

After being leased acres of agricultural land in 2019, former sugar workers from Belle West  on the West Bank of Demerara (WBD) are facing removal by state holding company, NICIL and they are considering taking legal action.

While acknowledging the enormous quantity of oil discovered offshore Guyana, the United Kingdom’s COP26 Envoy Dr John Murton says Guyana is now in a unique position to use the massive growth from its oil and gas industry to invest in the clean energy transition.

Twenty-four-year-old Shannon Cox now awaits sentencing after being found guilty of the 2017 unlawful killing of schoolboy, Brian Charles Yearwood, who was stabbed while attending a school concert.

By Lakhram Bhagirat Prime Minister Mark Phillips is of the view that in order for Guyana and the wider Caribbean to successfully transition to more sustainable energy sources significant systemic changes would be required.

A Venezuelan national was yesterday remanded after being charged with killing Beauford Watson, a miner.

A man is fortunate to still be alive after falling through the Parika wharf on the Essequibo River.

A police constable is currently under close arrest after he allegedly assaulted a 35-year-old disabled man at Orinduik, Region Eight during last week.

Police in Regional Division #6 yesterday eradicated an estimated $90 million worth of cannabis at a farm in Gateroy Village, Berbice River, and unearthed parcels of narcotics, along with firearms, stashed at Canje River, Berbice.