Guyana News

On April 22nd, 2022, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport intercepted a female outgoing passenger destined for the United States with a quantity of suspected cocaine, concealed within her carry-on bag.

Commentator Ralph Ramkarran says the issues that new Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton wants to have addressed  with President Irfaan Ali would be better handled in a parliamentary committee.

With the intention to ensure there is sustainability in its operations, the management of the Demerara Harbour Bridge Company’s Asphalt Plant is moving to procure a bitumen emulsion plant.

Pointing out that only one member of the APNU+AFC was present when the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Constitutional Reform met last week, government members say that the opposition is not serious about the process.

GBTI Mutual Funds, a subsidiary of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry, registered an after-tax profit of $207.5m for the year ended December 31, 2021 after incurring a loss of $92.7m in the previous reporting period.

Access to a steady supply of potable water has been a challenge in Itaballi, Cuyuni/Mazaruni, villagers say as they called on the authorities to improve the situation.

Chinese oil giant CNOOC – ExxonMobil’s partner in Guyana’s lucrative Stabroek Block – surged 44% in its Shanghai debut on Thursday, after raising 28.08 billion yuan (US$4.41 billion) in a public stock offering Reuters said that the shares began trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange at 12.96 yuan, 20% higher than the offering price of 10.8 yuan.

The Police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for Mohamed Khan who is wanted for questioning in relation to Obtaining Money by False Pretence.

The Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agriculture Development Authority (MMA-ADA) on Friday commissioned two long-reach excavators and a heavy-duty tractor valued at $91million.

A 14-year-old Mon Repos girl who went missing last Tuesday from her home has since been found and is now in the care of officials at the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security’s Child Care and Protection Agency after she alleged abuse by her mother.

Long-time Bourda Market vendor, Compton Narine was yesterday cremated following his passing on Easter Sunday.

Engineers from the Ministry of Agriculture are to visit the East Bank village of Mocha Arcadia to assess problems being experienced there and develop a plan of action.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that three new COVID-19 cases were reported.

Following a ruling by the Trinidad Court of Appeal a month earlier, murder-accused Joel King of the twin-Island Republic became the first person on March 25th, to be granted bail on a capital offence in a hundred years. 

Police from the Anna Regina Station District, Essequibo Coast on Saturday night engaged in a ‘White Light Campaign’ where a number of vehicles were stopped and examined for coloured lights resulting in eleven vehicles being detained.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Friday stated the Government’s commitment to use the proceeds from the oil and gas industry to develop and improve the lives of all Guyanese.

GAICO Construction and General Services Inc on Saturday increased its dredging capabilities with the addition of a new US$7.5 million dredge that was commissioned by President Irfaan Ali at the company’s Nismes, West Bank Demerara wharf.

Although it was initially suspected that Paishnarine Hansraj, 25, and Justin Teixeira, 34, the two men found dead in the Guyana Marriott Hotel parking lot on Saturday, may have overdosed on a drug, investigators have been told that a substance found near them is suspected to be sodium cyanide, a poison which can be fatal in small doses.

With Guyana receiving its first one million barrels of oil from the offshore Liza Unity oil platform, it is expected to net around US$106 million from the sale of the lift amid a huge spike in international fuel prices President Irfaan Ali yesterday said that government used the spot sale system to sell its share to ExxonMobil, a provision catered for under the crude lifting agreement, even as it continues to seek out a marketer or long term buyer for the remainder of its lifts.

An Abram Zuil man, who was wanted for allegedly causing the death of a Courts branch manager in Essequibo, was apprehended on Friday after years of evading police.