Guyana News

The Police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death by drowning of Renaldo Rampersaud, a 19-year-old miner, which occurred on 2022-02-01 at about 4 pm between ‘Luw Luw’ Island Point and Banana Landing, Middle Mazaruni River.

With six oil discoveries in 2021 and two already for this year, ExxonMobil yesterday said that its estimated US$6 billion global restructuring will aid aggressive works at the lucrative offshore Stabroek Block, positioning the company this year to see additional profits as it strengthens its portfolio to increase shareholder returns.

Alliance for Change Leader Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday called for the minimum wage to be moved to $100,000 as he said that is the only way the average Guyanese can survive the rising cost of living.

The Full Court on Monday dismissed a notice of appeal which had been filed by Astrolobe Technology Inc over a parking service it said it operated on East Street.

Allocations in the 2022 budget for the Ministry of Agriculture will see a modernisation of infrastructure in the sector and the promotion of drone technology for farming purposes, Minister Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday told the House.

Finding what it described as “severe shortcomings,” the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday threw out a claim brought by the Government of Belize which had sued the Government of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) on allegations of failing to apply a 40% Common External Tariff (CET) on some 3,000 tons of brown sugar imported from Guatemala and Honduras in 2019.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of January 31st, 2022, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) yesterday voiced its dismay at what it termed the one-sided coverage on the national budget debates airing on the National Communications Network (NCN).

Four Venezuelan females including two juveniles yesterday appeared in court charged with attempted murder.

Police in Regional Division #7 are reporting that a two-month-old boy has died in what is currently being treated as unnatural.

Police in Regional Division #7 have managed to arrest the alleged suspect in the murder of Bryan Melville.

Lowering the jail terms yesterday against the convicts in the murder of Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, the Guyana Court of Appeal for the second day in a row criticised the base sentence of 60 years applied by Justice Navindra Singh While the superior court upheld directions given by the trial judge in the conduct of the case, it reiterated the absence of reasons behind the 60-year base sentence used by Judge Singh for murder.

A Heathburn Village, East Bank Berbice man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with two counts of armed robbery committed on an East Bank Berbice couple which left one of the victims hospitalized with a gunshot injury.

Flood-affected residents of Kwakwani, Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice (Region Ten) have been provided with water tanks and other emergency flood relief resources as a result of a collaboration between the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), the Canadian High Commission, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

A company that recruits workers for one of ExxonMobil’s prime contractors, SBM Offshore has agreed to rectify the overtime rates paid to Guyanese working on the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) platform.

A company that recruits workers for ExxonMobil has agreed to rectify the overtime rates paid to Guyanese working on the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) platform.

The Ministry of Home Affairs,  the Guyana Police Force and the GDF Air Corps are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding an illegal aircraft bearing Venezuelan registration # YV506 which was discovered abandoned off an illegal airstrip in Kuruduni some 20 km from the Kurupukari crossing.

APNU+AFC frontbencher Amanza Walton-Desir yesterday hammered the government for its perceived failure to address the effects of inflation and to take better care of the neediest citizens as she opened the parliamentary debate on the $552.9 billion national budget.

Canadian oil explorers CGX Energy Inc and Frontera Energy Corpora-tion yesterday announced a commercial oil find off the Corentyne coast and this is to be further evaluated.

A Guyana Fire Service (GFS) investigation has concluded that the blaze  which gutted a Guyana National Shipping Cor-poration Limited (GNSC) building on Sunday morning was an act of arson.