Guyana News

With a dream of becoming Guyana’s own Willy Wonka, a French-born Guyanese chocolatier has opened the country’s first artisanal chocolate shop.

Canadian oil and gas exploration company CGX Energy Inc. on Friday evening held a naming and blessing ceremony for its next offshore oil exploration well, “Utakwaaka,” which is to be drilled by November next year in the Corentyne Block.

President David Granger has dismissed the criticisms of his recent pre-Emancipation speech at Beterverwagting (BV), saying that he sees no issue with his comments since they were both relevant and important.

US-based businessman Jerome Bulkan has always been involved in humanitarian work, and for him it was not just about helping children in orphanages.

Armed bandits robbed a hire car driver of $450,000 in cash and valuables on Friday night, shortly after he returned to his La Grange, West Bank Demerara home.

The body of an unidentified man was discovered floating in a trench at Canal No.

Overseas-based doctors have concluded that no additional treatment options can be offered to improve the condition of Matthew Zaman, the eight-year-old child who has been bedridden for more than seven months after he was struck down by a minibus along the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) Public Road.

The longstanding absence of a National Insurance Commissioner has left one elderly woman unable to appeal a decision by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) tribunal to disallow her the payment of survivor’s benefits.

The Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) will soon begin testing the mercury content of rivers which are the main source of water supply for mining communities, after sections of the Kaituma River revealed high levels of mercury content.

The 1.4 million hectares of land, which have reverted to the State Forests Estate after initially being allocated for forestry concessions under the former administration in areas in the south of Guyana, may be considered for protected status, Head of Planning at the Guyana Forestry Commission Pradeepa Bholanauth has hinted.  

Six months after a security sector reform plan was handed over to government by British security expert Lt Col (rtd) Russell Combe, the document is still being perused, President David Granger said on Thursday.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has reported a 7.4% decrease in the occurrence of fatal accidents at the end of July, 2018.

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is mulling the purchase of additional generators to support its pump stations currently serving heavily populated areas around the country, according to Managing Director Dr.

DNA samples have been taken for testing from the remains suspected to be those of missing labourer Patrick Vyfhuis, which were discovered more than two weeks ago at Kuribrong, in Region Eight.

The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) investigation into the Jet Ski accident, which claimed the life of overseas-based Guyanese Ravindra Budhraj in July, remains active, MARAD’s Director of Safety John Flores has said.

Despite being presented with questions for written responses more than three weeks ago, Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence was granted a request to defer responding to them, after she said that her staff has been unable to do the requisite research to answer the questions due to being occupied with other duties.

The Guyana Government values the role played by Indigenous Peoples in Guyana’s national development efforts highly, and Guyanese should be considering how to balance the traditionalist views of them with their desire to be integrated into the socio-economic, cultural and political life of the country, Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) Ambassador Riyad Insanally said last Thursday.  

Devon Porter, the taxi driver who police say attempted to dump a gun after a bid to evade them ended in an accident, is now a remanded prisoner.

(BBC) Trinidadian novelist Sir VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at his home in London aged 85, his family have said.

(Reuters) – Federal authorities today  were seeking to learn what drove an airline worker to steal an empty airplane from Seattle’s airport in a security scare that caused the scrambling of U.S.