Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 December 2019, 14:21 by Writer The Citizenship Initiative (TCI) political party says it is still open to coalescing with two other small political parties—Change Guyana (CI), and A New and United Guyana (ANUG)—but TCI’s presidential candidate, Rondha-Ann Lam says “ethnicity” is among her party’s major concerns. Lam says after her party told ANUG and Change ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 December 2019, 12:57 by Writer The Guyana government’s Department of Energy on Tuesday announced that the Barbados-headquartered Shell Western Supply and Trading (SWST) Limited has been selected to sell the country’s first three million barrels of oil for trial processing and removal of contaminants. “The DE looks forward to introducing this grade into the market ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 December 2019, 23:41 by Writer The United States Congressional Research Service (CRS), a think-tank for the United States (U.S.) Congress, says some analysts believe that the David Granger-led coalition is likely to win next year’s general elections. “Past general elections in Guyana suggest the 2020 race will be close, but some analysts contend the APNU/AFC’s ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 December 2019, 19:40 by Writer The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Monday night said 6,534 of the 16,863 new voter registrants were not confirmed during a five-day field verification exercise. GECOM spokeswoman, Yolanda Ward released figures showing that 10,329 registrants were confirmed. Ward said the more than 6,500 others could not be verified for various reasons ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 December 2019, 13:15 by Writer A 67-year-old fisherman, is now in police custody for the alleged murder of 32-year-old Balchan Avai Baichan of no fixed place of abode. The killing took place at the fisherman’s Logwood Squatting Area, Enmore North, East Coast Demerara residence on Sunday about 1:20pm. Investigations so far revealed that the suspect ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 December 2019, 11:15 by Writer IRVING, Texas – ExxonMobil said today it made an oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Mako-1 well southeast of the Liza field, marking the 15th discovery on the Stabroek Block. The discovery adds to the previously announced estimated recoverable resource of more than 6 billion oil-equivalent barrels on the Stabroek ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 December 2019, 12:27 by Writer A New and United Guyana (ANUG) says the time has come for the small parties with broad common features to unite to target the estimated 35,000 independent voters who want to bring an end to racial voting and use their seats in the National Assembly to push for policy and ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 21 December 2019, 13:14 by Writer By GHK Lall By Guyanese standards, it has been a relatively dignified December. In fact, it has been the most placid month of this stormy year. Still, I had to wait for the safety of over two thirds of the month to pass, before I am able to say that ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 21 December 2019, 1:21 by Writer President David Granger Friday night said he expected increased jobs and assured that oil revenues would be spent wisely, shortly after ExxonMobil announced that it earlier in the day began commercial oil production from the Liza field offshore Guyana. “The petroleum sector will stimulate increased employment and expand services,” he ...

Last Updated on Friday, 20 December 2019, 23:10 by Writer IRVING, Texas – ExxonMobil Friday announced that oil production has started from the Liza field offshore Guyana ahead of schedule and less than five years after the first discovery of hydrocarbons, which is well ahead of the industry average for deepwater developments. Production for Liza Phase 1 to reach full ...