LIMA, (Reuters) – Spanish energy firm Repsol said yesterday a clear-up operation for a major oil spill on the coast near Peru’s capital Lima would take until the end of February, in an environmental incident declared a ‘catastrophe’ by the government.
Following complaints to the Ministry of Public Works about holes in a road at Enmore, East Coast Demerara, Minister within the Ministry Deodat Indar visited the area where he discovered that the road was not completed to the required standard.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – U.N. chief Antonio Guterres, lamenting a failure of global governance, urged the world to go into emergency mode to tackle COVID-19, the climate crisis and global finance reform, put humanity at the center of technology and bring peace.
(Trinidad Guardian) Days after she was subjected to fierce criticisms for her comments on poverty in T&T, Jeanine Brandt, this country’s delegate at the Miss World 2021 pageant, has been named among 40 semi-finalists who will go to Puerto Rico from March 13 to 18, to compete in the next round of the competition.
Leader of the PNCR, Aubrey Norton was on Wednesday briefed on Canada’s projects in Guyana.
Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the servicing and monitoring of excavators and other items under the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA).
(Reuters) – Schlumberger NV reported a rise in fourth-quarter profit on Friday, as demand for the company’s oilfield services and related equipment was boosted by producers looking to capitalize on higher crude prices.
(Reuters) – A British-Belgian teenager became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world on Thursday and the first person to do so in a microlight plane after a five-month, five-continent odyssey in her Shark ultralight.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) this afternoon announced the deaths of 11 more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
The Ministry of Finance today announced that the 2022 national budget will be presented next Wednesday.
PARIS, (Reuters) – One police officer was injured and police faced gunfire during a night of civil unrest over COVID-19 restrictions in Guadeloupe, a French overseas territory in the Caribbean, the island’s local authority said on Friday.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Oil majors TotalEnergies and Chevron Corp, partners in a major gas project in Myanmar, said today they were withdrawing from the country, citing the worsening humanitarian situation following last year’s coup.
ACCRA, (Reuters) – At least 17 people were killed and scores injured when a truck carrying explosives to a gold mine in western Ghana collided with a motorcycle, setting off an explosion that flattened a rural community, the government said today.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation today said said that due to the sudden and unfortunate passing of the mother of President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro his official visit to Guyana will no longer take place today.
The administrative power of Guyana’s government over the Natural Resource Fund is concerning and is one of the most “top heavy” bureaucratic systems anywhere in the world , Natural Resource Fund Expert and Economist Andrew Bauer says.
The Banks DIH company registered after-tax profit of $6.77b for the year ended September 30, 2021, a rise of 28.6% over the previous year.
Guyana Fire Service (GFS) investigators have concluded that the fire which destroyed two Laparkan Shipping storage bonds on Lombard Street, Georgetown on Sunday was an act of arson.
Closed-door tripartite discussions among Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali, President of Suriname, Chandrikapersad Santokhi, and the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, in Paramaribo yesterday will be advanced at the ministerial level in the coming months, the Office of the President said.
The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) is making an effort to reach more deserving persons who qualify for its Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Programme (AHUAP).
While the political party, A New and United Guyana (ANUG) feels that President Irfaan Ali and his administration are worthy of accolades for the recent city cleanup campaign, it still sees the current government as having to shoulder blame for the squalid state of the city.
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