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Author Archives: Denis Chabrol

GY$20 million worth marijuana seized, two arrested

A man and a woman were Monday arrested by agents of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) in connection with the discovery and seizure of GY$20 million worth of marijuana at Block 1, Unity, Hubu, Parika, East Bank Essequibo. CANU said the 102 “brick-like parcels” of marijuana weighing 55.2 kilogrammes were in several large bags at a house at Hubu occupied ...

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Litta Reporta app to provide data to assist with waste management

A new digital platform, Litta Reporta, was launched at the weekend to assist authorities at the local and national levels, but the major problem is still expected to be collection of waste although authorities would be aware of the locations. The app was developed by Software Developer, 20-year old Maryam Bacchus, who has been described as having a “passion for ...

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Govt, opposition talk up ‘money-in-your pocket’ 2024 national budget

Ahead of Monday’s presentation of Guyana’s 2024 budget, the government and opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) are citing the need for money in ordinary’s people’s pockets to grapple with spiralling cost of living and narrowing the gap between the rich and poor. Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton has produced a wish-list for the 2024 National ...

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Guyana asks for proposals to build “open-access” natural gas facility

The Guyana government is calling for private sector investors to propose how they can construct  a centralised gas connection, storage and transport facility for all natural gas accessed and produced by all oil companies operating in Guyana. In its Request for Proposals, the Ministry of Natural Resources, as the procuring entity, asked businesses to say how they would design, finance, ...

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OPINION: Challenge on oil, and the worst in leaders come out

by GHK Lall It took a development that came out of the belly of Guyana’s Opposition to open my eyes, help connect the dots.  Numerous things were wrong, suspect, flawed with the management of this great oil endowment, but somehow, I didn’t strike the nail square.  It has nothing to do with numbers, charts, graphs, or footnotes.  It had everything ...

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OPINION: Third Force operations have failed miserably in Guyana

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus I read Tony Vieira’s letter calling for a Third Force several times. I give Mr. Vieira full credit for not reducing Guyana’s politics, and especially its voting behavior, to that most predictable of the lazy scholar’s last resort, namely race. That said, Vieira’s call for a Third Force is deeply problematic. Allow me to ...

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Response to post in Mr Jermaine Figueira’s name

Attention was on Saturday, 13th January, 2024 drawn to the posting of an utterance titled “Setting the record straight: I was caught off guard in Denis Chabrol’s scheming tactics” in the name of opposition APNU+AFC parliamentarian, Jermaine Figueira on Village Voice. The fact of the matter is as follows: Following the PNCR and Opposition Leader, Mr Aubrey Norton’s explanation for ...

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Guyana saves US$800 million from oil earnings since production began

Guyana has saved just over US$800 million from more than US$3 billion in oil revenues since production began in 2020, even as the country is set to sell 27 entitled lifts this year now that production has begun at the Payara project, officials said. After government’s total withdrawals of US$1.002 billion in 2023 from the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) based ...

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AFC wants Public Accounts Committee empowered to summon persons

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Friday said it proposed a motion for the bipartisan parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to be empowered to summon former officials to appear before that body that questions the spending of monies from the coffers based on observations from the Auditor General’s reports. “The PAC does not have the power to summon persons to ...

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Patterson continues to deal with oil and gas

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton said Alliance For Change’s (AFC) David Patterson would continue be the opposition coalition’s spokesman on oil and gas. Mr Norton on Thursday told a news conference that Mr Holder, an engineer, would be Shadow Minister of Natural Resources which includes  oil and gas, but Patterson would continue to speak on the subject in the National Assembly. ...

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