Guyana News

-new shares to be issued Banks DIH Limited (BDIH) has now transitioned to Banks DIH Holdings Inc (BDIHHI) and new shares are to be issued to stockholders BDIHHI, which has thousands of shareholders, made this disclosure in two advertisements in yesterday’s Stabroek News.

CARICOM Heads of Government who met in Grenada from July 28-30 have noted Venezuela’s continued “aggressive posture” towards Guyana and have expressed “unswerving support”  for the preservation of this country’s territorial integrity.

A US murder accused who was apprehended here last week and later deported had been wanted for the shooting death of a six-year-old boy in Maryland.

For the first six months of this year, the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) has seen a 27% increase in after-tax profit compared to the corresponding period last year.

Anand Persaud, a 31-year-old man from Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara, and former employee of the United States Embassy in Georgetown, is in police custody after he was arrested for allegedly sending a threatening email to the Embassy’s email address.

The state issued 3,020 firearm licences between 2017 and 2023 and more than a third of these were issued in one year alone – 2021.

Fulcrum LNG, the US company that was controversially selected to develop gas infrastructure here is vowing to adhere to the highest safety standards Critics have said that the company was not experienced enough and that the connections of its top executive to ExxonMobil should have ruled it out.

Foreign Service Officer, Sharmayne Balram yesterday issued a statement condemning former Minister of Local Government Nigel Dharamlall for lodging a complaint with the police against her.

An OAS resolution on the controversial elections in Venezuela failed to pass on Wednesday in Washington after disagreement over one sentence and what was also evident was the deep division in CARICOM on the issue.

-cites range of assistance to sector Highlighting the series of measures implemented since 2020 to boost the mining sector, the government has warned that illegal activities by miners will not be tolerated.

The fairy-tale saga of Guyana’s first lucrative oil find in 2015 which has catapulted the nation seemingly overnight into a whirlwind of economic development on the back of later similar finds and which many here now take for granted, might never have been a reality were it not for the tenacity of a couple of ExxonMobil employees, an engineer and a geoscientist.

The Board of Industrial Training (BIT) continues to help train youths to be a part of Guyana’s economic boom and this time it has collaborated with the Male Empowerment Network (MEN) and United States Agency for International Develop-ment (USAID)-Youth Resilience Inclusion and Empowerment (Y- RIE) programme to launch the Guyana Ignite programme with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, a BIT release stated on Wednesday.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has announced the certification of three new local companies under its Made in Guyana, and Product Certification Programmes.

Residents of Farm and Mocha Arcadia, East Bank Demerara are now benefiting from  newly constructed main access roads, fulfilling a commitment made by President Irfaan Ali when he visited the community earlier this year, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release stated last week.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has notified the public that a demolition exercise is currently being conducted at Camp Groomes along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway.

The National Assembly yesterday approved the Family Violence Bill with sweeping new provisions including  police officers being allowed to enter premises without a warrant to provide assistance to a person under threat.

-case adjourned to Monday State prosecutor in the elections fraud case, Darshan Ramdhani KC yesterday challenged Magistrate Leron Daly on decisions she made on the first two days and her note-taking.

Following the “amicable” end of Trinidadian company, Kallco’s work on the Conversation Tree road project, the government took possession of its vehicles and equipment to cover the advance payment that had been made to it.

-GPL $16b, GuySuCo $9.5b The government is seeking Parliament’s approval for over $40 billion in supplementary funds to shore up needed expenditure up to the end of 2024.

Ranks from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guard Unit in Berbice found ten parcels of suspected cannabis weighing 135 lbs, which were handed over to the Police on Tuesday.