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.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday criticized Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s declaration of “solidarity” with Russia during a visit there this week as it amassed troops near Ukraine’s borders, raising fears it is planning to invade.
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.
VENTANILLA, Peru, (Reuters) – An executive of Spain’s Repsol SA said today a large oil spill off the coast of Peru’s capital Lima affected an area of 106 square kilometers, the size of the French capital Paris or almost twice the size of Manhattan.
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.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday criticized Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s declaration of “solidarity” with Russia during a visit there this week as it amassed troops near Ukraine’s borders, raising fears it is planning to invade.
ABERYSTWYTH, Wales, (Reuters) – An Atlantic storm battered Britain and Ireland on Friday with record winds of up to 122 miles per hour, knocking out power for tens of thousands of people, forcing planes to abort landings, uprooting trees and ripping off roofs across the land.
(Trinidad Express) The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has instructed that businessman Adrian Scoon be charged.
(Trinidad Express) Activist Jowelle De Souza made history on Tuesday as the first transgender person to be appointed a senator.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two sisters were killed in a fire on Thursday morning believed to be from a firebombing at their home in Curepe.
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.
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