Guyana News

Following its discovery of immense quantities of oil offshore Guyana, ExxonMobil’s local subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) has applied to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for permission to begin development of production facilities here.

A Wales Estate tractor operator died on Monday evening after he was stabbed during an argument, while his assailant is in police custody awaiting a formal charge.

Inspectors from the Government Analyst Food & Drug Department, which is responsible for inspecting public storage bonds for pharmaceuticals, have not been asked to inspect the still under-construction Sussex Street storage bond that was selected by government to store pharmaceuticals for the Ministry of Public Health.

A Queens, New York couple was reunited yesterday outside Brooklyn Federal Court after the man was released on US$20,000 bail for calling in a fake bomb threat against a Caribbean Airlines flight to prevent his girlfriend from travelling to Guyana.

A 21-year-old man passed away at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Monday evening, hours after he was reportedly beaten by residents at Enterprise, East Coast Demerara.

When Malinda Freitas found out she was pregnant eight months ago, never did she imagine that she would end up delivering twins, much less at 8,000 feet in the air.

A miner was stabbed to death on Monday evening at Jackass Landing, Puruni River, Mazaruni, after he was accused of “name talking.”

Three men were on Monday charged with murdering Corentyne businesswoman Su Di Wong, who was shot dead after gunmen invaded her home six months ago.

A Charlestown woman is now in prison on a charge of possession of cannabis for trafficking after police found the drug in a bag she allegedly threw away.

At least one person has died as a result of a mining accident in the Omai area, Region Eight.

Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Edward Boyer on Monday said that the commission will not encourage any form of bullyism from the city council on the controversial container fee.

After hours of deliberations, the National Assembly late Monday evening approved over $2 billion in extra budgetary funds to meet a variety of needs including sums for a University of Guyana Medical School re-accreditation site visit, an out-of-court settlement for works done at the Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill and salaries for the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU).

Former presidents Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar will be part of a panel at a public forum organized by the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) at 5:30 pm today.

Tenders were opened yesterday for the construction of three pump stations on the East Coast.

Sugar workers from the LBI and Enmore estates yesterday took strike action as they continued to protest the merging of the two entities.

A Venezuelan national was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail by a city court after she admitted to illegal possession of ammunition.

Region Six’s Regional Democratic Council (RDC) has proposed spending $9M to rehabilitate the dilapidated Amerindian Hostel at Stanleytown, New Amsterdam.

The prosecution’s failure to file and serve statements to defence lawyers on Monday prevented Freddie Kissoon from testifying in the trial of the men charged with dousing him with human faeces.

The Fourth International Congress on Biodiversity of the Guiana Shield was declared open by President David Granger at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre on Monday, as efforts to protect and preserve a billion year old Guiana Shield intensify.

President David Granger on Monday lauded the Upper Mazaruni 19th Annual District Games, which is being hosted at the Kamarang Sports Ground in Cuyuni-Mazaruni from August, 7-15.