Guyana News

Cricket West Indies (CWI) today announced that it will start  a recruitment process for the new Men’s Selection Panel in January.

Outgoing Chairperson of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Volda Lawrence this morning told the opening of the party’s 21st Biennial Delegates Congress that it is time the PNCR takes a new road with renewed leadership.

Multiple deaths have been reported thus far following an early morning West Coast Berbice (WCB) accident.

American deep-sea scientist, Dr Erik Cordes, has informed the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) that the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for ExxonMobil’s Yellowtail project is seriously deficient and does not paint the correct picture of the impact of its offshore activities.

While saying he would not be contesting for the leadership of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) at its Biennial Delegates’ Congress today due to concerns about the process, former Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge yesterday made a call for the party’s executive to allow its membership to help fashion the way forward no matter the outcome of the voting.

CGX Energy Inc yesterday commissioned a bridge that leads to the company’s Deep Water Port, located aback Seawell village, Corentyne, Berbice, while the company’s Executive Chairman, Professor Suresh Narine, announced that it is on schedule for full operation by October 2022.

The Ministry of Finance last night said that the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill 2021 tabled in Parliament on Thursday will allow for greater accountability and transparency in the management of Guyana’s oil resources and it rejected criticisms of it contained in a Page One Comment in yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News.

Ministry of Amerindian Affairs Permanent Secretary Sharon Hicks was yesterday charged with accepting $200,000 as a bribe to process payment requests for the representative of a security firm.

Flying directly from Barbados, InterCaribbean Airways’ inaugural flight touched down at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) yesterday to signal the imminent launch of new flight options for travellers and connectivity to over 13 Caribbean destinations.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday promised the release of a further $100 million for works on the Upper East Bank Berbice main access road at in Mara committed, which has been in a deplorable state for a number of years.

Four years after Xavier Boyal was fatally shot at Puruni Landing, Cuyuni River, the man who confessed to killing him was on Friday sentenced to 15 years in jail for manslaughter.

Following government’s tabling of its proposed Local Content Bill in the National Assembly on Thursday, six years after the discovery of oil offshore, frontrunner for the leadership of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton says a wider cross-section of the business community should have been consulted.

Millions of dollars were lost when a joinery at Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo, went up in flames in the early hours of Friday morning.

Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn yesterday announced that a modern 11-storey structure will be constructed as the new Brickdam police station.

A Region Seven miner was yesterday sentenced to eight years in jail for killing a man who reportedly intervened in an argument he and his wife were having.

David Smith, a businessman who pleaded guilty to killing his cousin by stabbing him with an arrow during an argument at a Cuyuni River mining camp, was on Friday sentenced to seven years behind bars.

A phlebotomist has been remanded after a city court heard that she allegedly stole raw gold and other articles amounting to over $1 million from her ex-boyfriend.

Police are probing the murder of a Venezuelan national, who was gunned down on Thursday night at Baramita, in Region One.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on Friday commended the government for tabling of the Local Content Bill in the National Assembly, while maintaining that it would facilitate material benefit to the Guyanese private sector.

A vendor was yesterday remanded after being charged with having over $5 million in cannabis in his home.