Guyana News

Tullow Guyana B.V.has commenced an approximately 2,550 km2 3D seismic survey on the Company’s Orinduik Block offshore Guyana.

Residents of Naamless and St. Lawrence on the East Bank of Essequibo have expressed disgust at the deplorable state of the access road within the stretch of the two villages, where vehicles being stuck are now a common sight.

People’s Progressive Party member and former Office of the President Press and Publicity Officer Kwame McCoy has been taken to the High Court by the Guyana Power and Light Company over $143,573 they claim he owes.

Melvor Jeffrey, who was allegedly shot by the police and then escaped from lawful custody while under guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) on Wednesday, was yesterday recaptured by the lawmen after he was found hiding in a barrel at Agricola, East Bank Demerara.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation [GuySuCo] has produced a total of 49,606 tonnes of sugar for the first crop in 2017, out of a production target 74,172 that it had set.

The Ministry of Legal Affairs yesterday said it believes that the Guyana Bar Association’s (GBA) expectation that President David Granger will conform with the recent ruling by Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire on the GECOM Chairman is premature as the applicant has signalled his intention to appeal.

More than two dozen councillors from several indigenous villages in the Rupununi were recently able to benefit from a sensitisation workshop on legal and social issues.

A  man was on Friday refused bail after he pleaded not guilty to a charge of unlawful wounding.

A man was on Friday sentenced to nine months in jail after he admitted to stealing $61,600 in cigarettes.

Miners who were robbed last week at their camps in Kartuni, Cuyuni River by a gang of men, were able to retrieve some of the stolen vehicles and  items along the trail.

Property Holdings Incorporated (PHI) has advertised the former Guyana Stores Limited Shopping Centre in Festival City for sale or lease.

Two men who were positively identified by their victims, were each granted $15,000 bail on Friday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Defying pressure from abroad and at home, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said today that a controversial election would go ahead next weekend for a new congress his foes fear will institutionalize dictatorship.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of Devon Murray, 18, a sawmill operator of 1331 B Field, Sophia which occurred between 20:30h on the 21st and 05:30h on the 22nd.

Marlon Jeffrey who escaped from the GPHC while under police guard, was this morning recaptured at a house in Brutus Street, Agricola, the police said in a statement today.

The Bar Council of the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) yesterday said it expects that the state will abide by Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George’s orders for the appointment of the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom).

The Ministry of the Presidency yesterday refuted any assertion that President David Granger has rejected the recent ruling of acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC on the constitutional requirements for the appointment of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) chairperson.

Following the first meeting of its executive council in over two years, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has committed to a speedy and amicable resolution of the concerns raised by its membership.

Guyana Shore Base Inc (GYSBI) on Friday announced that it is scheduled to complete its 28-acre onshore base at Houston, East Bank, Demerara, to meet the needs of United States oil company ExxonMobil by March of next year.

The Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill has returned to normalcy and is now operating as a controlled dump site, Lloyd Stanton, Site Manager said on Friday during a tour of the operation with the Junior Minister of Communities Dawn Hastings.