Last Updated on Sunday, 24 November 2019, 10:59 by Writer A man, who repeatedly attacked police, was shot in the leg early Sunday morning. He is Royston “Crime” Evans of Charity Squatting Area on the Essequibo Coast. Police say he repeatedly attacked police with bottles, a cutlass and a knife. The incident occurred at about 12:39 this morning at the ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 November 2019, 21:44 by Writer Guyana would be asking the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for assistance to relocate the more than 150 Venezuelans, including 30 children, who are residing on the eastern dam of the Demerara River, government said Thursday. Minister of Citizenship, Mr. Winston ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 November 2019, 21:32 by Writer Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG), Professor Edward Greene said the publicly funded institution would be focussing heavily on training of its academic staff while at the same time possibly get top-notch foreign professors. Speaking with reporters after the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the international oil ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 November 2019, 19:37 by Writer Chairman of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), President David Granger and Leader of Alliance For Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan Thursday afternoon struck an agreement that will see the smaller AFC getting 30 percent of the parliamentary seats if the coalition wins in the March 2020 general elections. High-level sources ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 November 2019, 19:23 by Writer ExxonMobil (Guyana) on Wednesday played up the local benefits of its operations in Guyana over the last few years, even as government’s Energy Department said it was crafting a local content policy that is relevant to Guyana. Addressing the opening of the Guyana International Petroleum Business Summit & Exhibition (GIPEX ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 November 2019, 15:19 by Writer Chairman of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), President David Granger on Wednesday said he is keen on selecting an “honest government” to run Guyana should he win next year’s general elections, even as he flayed the Alliance For Change (AFC) for setting a deadline for ending negotiations for a ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 November 2019, 15:14 by Writer A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) at a meeting of its five partner political parties Monday evening said it decided on a formula for allocating parliamentary seats after next March’s general elections and a source close to the internal meeting ruled out that smaller party getting 40 percent of the ...

Last Updated on Monday, 18 November 2019, 19:35 by Writer Financially-crippled by six weeks of closure that government had ordered following the death of a geologist in a mining pit, the Australian gold mining company, Troy Resources Limited, on Monday said it would send home almost 400 workers in Guyana. In an internal one-page memorandum seen by News-Talk Radio Guyana ...

Last Updated on Monday, 18 November 2019, 15:39 by Writer After thumping its chest that it will pull out of the talks and contest the general elections alone if there is no agreement with A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Monday, the AFC has apparently asked for more time. None of the top AFC executives responded to enquiries from ...

Last Updated on Monday, 18 November 2019, 6:26 by Writer A feud between two Brazilian cousins has left one of them dead at Lethem in Rupununi, police said. They are both from the neighbouring Brazilian border town of Bonfim in the State of Roraima. Guyanese police say the headless body of 22-year old Dico Davi Roberto Moreira was found lying ...