Last Updated on Sunday, 7 January 2018, 17:48 by Denis Chabrol Police said they have unearthed two guns in the bonnet of car in which customs officers has also unearthed a large quantity of fireworks late last month. Nine days after officers of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on December 29, 2017 found the firecrackers and other items  in a ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 7 January 2018, 7:07 by Denis Chabrol The Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Saturday said the oil deal with ExxonMobil would not see Guyana getting a significant amount of oil and gas to help stimulate and grow businesses. “Nothing in the agreement,” the business body said, paves the way for Guyanese to pay less for electricity ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 6 January 2018, 19:47 by Denis Chabrol Twenty-six Indonesian fishermen walked off their job at Pritipaul Singh Investments (PSI), a local seafood company, over a pay dispute, prompting the intervention of the Indonesian embassy, sources said. The sources told Demerara Waves Online News that the men decided to leave the vessel last week Tuesday because of ...

Last Updated on Friday, 5 January 2018, 19:30 by Denis Chabrol THE Local Government Commission (LGC) will now be investigating the alleged sexual assault of a juvenile by a City Constabulary officer while in detention at the Town Constabulary’s lockups. Town Clerk Royston King said the decision was taken to forward the matter to the LGC after the city council ...

Last Updated on Friday, 5 January 2018, 19:20 by Denis Chabrol Attorney-at-Law, Roger Yearwood has already drafted an appeal to the recent high court ruling by Justice Nareshwar Harnanan to scrap the parking meter by-laws. The appeal should be filed by Monday, Town Clerk Royston King said on Friday at City Hall. Councillor Akeem Peter, Chairman of the negotiating committee, ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 6 January 2018, 10:46 by Denis Chabrol A company closely aligned to the governing coalition was among several granted radio licences on Friday, even as the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) signaled that operators might soon be asked to pay licence fees every three years. Hoyte-Blackman Television (HBTV),  was one of six entities that were licensed ...

Last Updated on Friday, 5 January 2018, 10:23 by Denis Chabrol Guyanese cultural icon, Neil Chan, who is credited with organising large costume and float parade Mashramani bands in the 1970s and 1980s, died Friday morning. He passed away at the St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital at the age of 88. Chand is remembered for the SOLO Band and the night ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 August 2019, 16:43 by Writer IRVING, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced Thursday positive results from its Ranger-1 exploration well, marking ExxonMobil’s sixth oil discovery offshore Guyana since 2015. The Ranger-1 well discovery adds to previous world-class discoveries at Liza, Payara, Snoek, Liza Deep and Turbot, which are estimated to total more than 3.2 billion recoverable ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 4 January 2018, 12:43 by Denis Chabrol by  Dwayne Wong (Omowale), Contributor . Reproduced from the Huffington Post Dwayne is the author of several books on African and African Diaspora history. I explained in One Caribbean and Other Essays that one of issues with Caribbean politics has been a two-party system in which Caribbean countries typically rotate between ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 4 January 2018, 10:50 by Denis Chabrol A convicted robber, who is jailed in the Mazaruni Prison, has confessed to the murder of a Brazilian gold miner more than one year ago after his brother was arrested on Wednesday, a Guyana Police Force spokesman said. A wanted bulletin had been issued for Fidel Williams for the ...