The latest Guyana news from Stabroek News including oil and gas coverage, crime, politics, culture, business and more.
Corporate Secretary of Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) Laurian Bancroft continued to give evidence on Tuesday during the trial of former GPL board member Carvil Duncan, who is charged with conspiring to steal over $28 million from the company.
Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has committed to providing support for the upgrading of Radio Paiwomak, the first hinterland community radio station in Guyana, which is based at Bina Hill, Annai.
The Indian Action Committee (IAC) will be holding an “Evening of Entertainment” on Sunday, July 31 at the National Cultural Centre.
Country Manager of Exxon Mobil Corporation, Jeff Simons today reaffirmed that the company will not start the actual extraction of oil from its huge offshore well for another five years.
ST.JOHN’s, Antigua, CMC-Promising Antiguan fast bowler Alzarri Joseph is set to make his Test debut after he was drafted into the West Indies side for the current home series against India.
(Reuters) – Chris Gayle and Shane Watson need no introductions in cricket-playing countries but while they are unlikely to become household names in the U.S.
Chairperson of the recently-established Bid Protest Committee (BPC) Renee McDonald has resigned even as the body’s first case—Cevons Waste Management’s protest against the Ministry of Communities over the award of a $221M Haags Bosch landfill maintenance contract—awaits a decision.
The main suspect in the Black Bush triple murder has been held and he is the owner of the same type of weapon that inflicted the deadly wounds.
Just two days after severed body parts suspected to belong to Mahdia miner Shawn Clarke were discovered, two men were charged in a city court with his murder.
The ferry, Sabanto suffered extensive damage after it collided with the Supenaam Stelling last evening and will be out of service until further notice.
A visiting St. Lucian Cub Scout has been critically injured, while another and his mother escaped with minor injuries after they were struck by a car yesterday afternoon near the Scout Association of Guyana headquarters at Woolford Avenue.
A Bush Lot woman was yesterday charged with trafficking a teenaged girl for prostitution.
An East Canje taxi driver is now hospitalised after being stabbed multiples times about his body during an attempted carjacking.
Keith Ferrier, who was accused of setting fire to the Ministry of Health (MoH) building in 2009, was yesterday cleared of the charge after a city court found that the prosecution had no case against him.
The body of an unidentified man was pulled out from a trench at Grant Street, Paradise, East Coast Demerara yesterday morning.
Minister of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, Sydney Allicock has pitched the idea of a bridge across the Essequibo River at Kurupukari along with an attached hydro-electric generating facility to power the bridge, nearby communities and the Iwokrama River Lodge and Research Centre.
Tenders were opened yesterday for an upgrade to the Diamond Hospital on the East Bank Demerara.
Chairman of the Regional Democratic Council of Region Five, Vickchand Ramphal yesterday appealed to Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan and President David Granger to “intervene incisively” in bringing an end to the “disastrous” disruption of its statutory meetings.
A decision on the renewal of Barama Company Limited’s (BCL) Investment Development Agreement is expected to be made in a few weeks.
Proposed new by-laws to govern the transport and discharge of shipping containers in the city would set fees of up to $45,000 for 40-ft containers.
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