Guyana News

City councillors will be meeting with vendors who sell at the dilapidated Stabroek Market wharf and in the surrounding area on a plan to relocate them ahead of scheduled rehabilitation works in the first quarter of 2018.

Two young men were yesterday released on $20,000 bail each by a city magistrate after they denied an armed robbery charge.

ExxonMobil Corporation yesterday announced it has discovered additional oil in the Payara reservoir offshore Guyana, increasing the total Payara discovery to approximately 500 million oil-equivalent barrels.

A Roraima Airlines pilot died this afternoon after his plane crashed near Eteringbang in Region Seven.

ExxonMobil Corporation today announced it has discovered additional oil in the Payara reservoir offshore Guyana, increasing the total Payara discovery to approximately 500 million oil-equivalent barrels.

    Up to press time last night, the police had recaptured seven of the 13 prisoners who escaped from the Lusignan Prison pasture early yesterday morning, after digging a tunnel that took them under the fence and into the backlands.

Although taking overall responsibility for the “embarrassing” escape of 13 high-risk prisoners from the Lusignan pasture, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday brushed off calls for his resignation.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo last evening voiced concern over the escape of 13 high risk prisoners from a holding area near Lusignan Prison, which he said has driven the nation into even greater fear.

– one person in custody A Number 73 Village, Corentyne shop owner and his wife were injured and admitted to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital yesterday morning, after bandits launched an attack on them around 2 am.

Though on leave, Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud passed the instruction for the main suspect in the alleged assassination plot against President David Granger to be released on the night he was detained, police witnesses yesterday testified.

  Kerry Cromwell – Murder – Twenty-three-year-old Cromwell, an ex-convict was remanded to prison in April last year after he was charged with the murder of Linden bus driver Alvin Lorrimer.

Although cell phone jammers were installed at the Camp Street Prison prior to the July 9 fire and jailbreak, their use was discontinued owing to some issues, acting Prisons Director Gladwin Samuels revealed yesterday.

Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum yesterday called the allegations of the assassination plot against President David Granger “inherently incredible.”

In its quest to drive the “intellectual processes of green development,” the University of Guyana (UG) must become an incubator of technology, President David Granger said yesterday at the opening ceremony for the inaugural Diaspora Engagement Conference.

Having recently celebrated its first anniversary as a company, the social impact project weOwnspace, remains resolute in its efforts to support the needs of Guyanese entrepreneurs while remaining sustainable in a developing economy.

As ExxonMobil prepares for 2020 oil production here, government has assured that it will meet the necessary environmental and occupational health and safety standards to aptly monitor the oil and gas industry and prevent hazards.

As employment costs and overhead soar at City Hall, the councillors are calling for the city administration to employ cost cutting measures, such as an automated payroll to replace cash payments.

A West Coast Berbice (WCB) pedal cyclist was struck down and killed on the Lovely Lass public road last night after visiting his sister in another village.

The girlfriend of Melvor Jeffrey, the teen who was recaptured by the police after he had escaped from lawful custody while under guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), is said to be one of the two women held by the police in connection with harbouring the fugitive.

Fifty-six persons living with disabilities in regions Four and Ten on Friday graduated with skills in Information Technology, Computer Repairs and Cosmetology following the completion of eight months of training.