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The Guyana Government today issued an advisory on the Novel Coronavirus and said that persons arriving here from China will be subject to quarantine protocols.

The bullet-riddled body of a rice farmer of Number 68 Village, Corentyne, was this morning found at the Number 67 Village, Corentyne backlands.

ExxonMobil today said it has increased its estimated recoverable resource base in Guyana to more than 8 billion oil-equivalent barrels and made a further oil find northeast of the producing Liza field at the Uaru exploration well, the 16th discovery on the Stabroek Block.

GECOM today ruled that the leader of the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP), Lenox Shuman be removed from the list of candidates submitted by his party as he was a dual citizen at the time.

The US-based Carter Center today announced that it had launched its observer mission here for the 2020 general elections.

Change Guyana Prime Ministerial candidate Nigel Hinds today withdrew from the ticket helmed by businessman Robert Badal citing his dual citizenship and a likely medical condition he learnt of in November last year.

Former GDF Chief of Staff Mark Phillips has been unanimously endorsed as the PPP/C’s prime ministerial candidate.

The Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels says that an attempt to break out of the Camp Street jail had been discovered today and the two suspected masterminds will be secured at another location.

President David Granger has issued the Proclamations for the dissolution of Parliament and the ten Regional Democratic Councils on December 30, 2019.

The bodies of a Corentyne hotel owner and his worker were found bound at his hotel located at Number 63 Village, Corentyne, this afternoon.

Shell Western Supply and Trading Limited was named today by the Department of Energy as the successful buyer of the first three cargoes of Guyana’s oil.

ExxonMobil today said it had made an oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Mako-1 well southeast of the Liza field, marking the 15th discovery on the Stabroek Block.

ExxonMobil today announced that oil production has started from the Liza field offshore Guyana ahead of schedule and less than five years after the first find of hydrocarbons, which is well ahead of the industry average for deepwater developments.

Two brothers serving in the Guyana Police Force (GPF) were granted their release this morning after they were jointly charged with abducting and wounding 17-year-old Ak shay Budhiram, who was allegedly beaten and burnt at the brothers’ La Parfaite Harmonie home.

At least five persons are believed to have died following a fatal accident at Mahaicony around midday today.

The police are investigating the murder of a 28-year-old athletics coach whose lifeless body was discovered early this morning with multiple stab wounds at D’Urban Park.

Reuters) – A court in Suriname today convicted President Desi Bouterse of murder for the execution of 15 opponents in 1982 during an earlier term as military ruler of the South American country after he and other soldiers led a violent coup to seize power.

A meeting today between the two members of the governing APNU+AFC coalition ended with bright smiles and declarations of “excellent” as a revising of the Cummingsburg Accord has been agreed for the 2020 general elections.

Murder accused Marcus Brian Bisram today appeared at the Whim Magistrate’s Court where he was remanded to prison.

Troy Resources Guyana Inc has decided to terminate hundreds of employees while it continues to make efforts to restart operations.