Armed bandits early yesterday morning invaded the Republic Park, East Bank Demerara house of the finance director of the company providing onshore services to ExxonMobil, and held him and his family at gunpoint and demanded valuables.
Two men who sexually molested children in separate incidents—one indicted for rape and the other for sexual activity, were yesterday jailed for 30 and nine years respectively by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall.
Over 500 persons with hearing impairments yesterday received free hearing screening during the Starkey Hearing Foundation’s first phase of its Guyana hearing mission initiative for 2018, at the National Exhibition Centre in Sophia.
Minister of State, Joseph Harmon yesterday pledged Central Government’s support to the villages on the West Demerara Coast which recently experienced heavy flooding caused by severe overtopping of the sea defences by the Atlantic Ocean.
Current and prospective recipients of scholarships, as well as public servants desirous of academic and professional training will now be able to better access new and existing opportunities with the introduction of a scholarship website.
The Private Sector Commission on Tuesday held an oil and gas seminar under the theme ‘Perspectives for the Local Private Sector’ for its members and the need for a beneficial local content policy was stressed.
The police say they are making stringent efforts to recapture remanded prisoner Leon Price, 24, of Onderneeming Sand Pit, Essequibo Coast who escaped from the Suddie Police Station Lock-ups between 4 and 5.15 yesterday morning.
A Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) businessman is now seeking answers after a fire suspected to have been intentionally set destroyed the interior of his Toyota IST motor vehicle and scorched three others.
The cause of the February 17th fire that completely gutted the Supra International furniture factory at Coldingen, East Coast Demerara, leaving millions in losses and some 50 persons unemployed, is yet to be determined.
The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) this morning advised the police to charge Bishops’ High School teacher Coen Jackson with the offence of sexual activity with a child by abusing a position of trust.
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Fire ripped through four Pike Street, Kitty homes this morning completely destroying three and leaving the fourth uninhabitable and more than 20 persons, including children, are now homeless.
Four Guyanese men have pleaded guilty in the High Court in Bridgetown to committing several drug offences, according to a report on the online news site, Barbados Today.
ExxonMobil is not currently open to renegotiation of the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) its local subsidiary signed with the Government of Guyana, according to the company’s Public and Government Affairs Advisor Kimberly Brasington, who yesterday said that if a request had been made for an “astronomical” signing bonus, it would have rejected it and stuck with the original 1999 agreement which did not provide for any.