Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 August 2020, 10:46 by Denis Chabrol Parliamentary sittings will be held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) to ensure there is sufficient distance among parliamentarians and other persons as part of the COVID-19 fight. Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs says no date has been fixed for the convening of Parliament for the ...
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Goldmine worker robbed of GYD$4 million
Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 August 2020, 8:33 by Denis Chabrol Police say Detector Operator, who works in the Chi-Chi backdam goldfields, has been robbed of $4.4 million by two gunmen who invaded his home at Nismes, West Bank Demerara. Police Force spokesman, Royston Andries did not disclose the name of the robbery victim, in what appears to be a ...
Read More »Forestry Commission gets GYD$350 million to pay salaries, utility bills
Last Updated on Monday, 24 August 2020, 19:38 by Denis Chabrol Workers of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) have gotten a GYD$350 million bail out to pay salaries to staff and utility bills, the Ministry of Natural Resources said Monday. The Ministry of Natural Resources also said that before year-end workers would be paid their $25,000 bonus that had been ...
Read More »ExxonMobil drilling deepest exploratory well offshore Guyana
Last Updated on Monday, 24 August 2020, 19:01 by Denis Chabrol ExxonMobil has begun drilling its deepest well in Guyana to a depth of 8,000 metres of water in search of another oil field in the lucrative basin that has so far yielded several commercial discoveries. “We started drilling the Tanager-1 in the Kaieteur Block offshore Guyana about two weeks ...
Read More »PNCR Chairman on bail for fraud charge; maintains her innocence
Last Updated on Monday, 24 August 2020, 11:42 by Denis Chabrol People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Chairman, Volda Lawrence was Monday granted GYD$100,000 bail on a fraud charge. She was not required to plea to the charge that states on March 5, 2020, she procured Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo to utter a forged Form 24 to the Chief ...
Read More »Tabitha Sarabo-Halley resigns from WPA amid party’s spat with Granger over parliamentary selection
Last Updated on Monday, 24 August 2020, 0:01 by Denis Chabrol The Chairman of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), Tabitha Sarabo-Halley has resigned, even as that party maintains that it was not consulted on who should have been the person selected to become Parliamentarian. Mrs. Sarabo-Halley confirmed Sunday night that she has resigned from the WPA and she does not ...
Read More »No prequalification process for new Request for Proposals to sell Guyana’s oil
Last Updated on Monday, 24 August 2020, 1:02 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government has decided to scrap the prequalification process in a fresh round of request for proposals for a company to sell the country’s crude oil from the Liza Phase One well. The request was published in notices published in the daily newspapers by the Department of Energy ...
Read More »Lusignan Prison to be expanded
Last Updated on Sunday, 23 August 2020, 13:35 by Denis Chabrol The Lusignan Prison, where there have been untests including a recent devastating fire, is to be expanded as a priority project, authorities said. “High on the agenda will be the construction of additional areas so that social distancing can be practiced, and better supervision and management of the prisoners ...
Read More »Health Minister explains spike in COVID-19 cases, deaths
Last Updated on Sunday, 23 August 2020, 10:23 by Denis Chabrol Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony says there are more COVID-19 positive cases now because the reason for testing has changed. Latest available figures show that there were 44 new cases in the last 36 hours. In all, 74 persons are hospitalised, They include 11 in the Intensive Care ...
Read More »Caribbean lawyers’ hefty fees at centre of political spat in Guyana; govt to call in Auditor General
Last Updated on Saturday, 22 August 2020, 21:22 by Denis Chabrol Several Caribbean and Guyanese lawyers have had their names drawn to the centre of a brewing controversy over huge amounts paid to them from Guyana’s treasury for several political cases and a Commission of Inquiry into the assassination of Working People’s Alliance (WPA) co-leader Dr. Walter Rodney. Attorney-General Anil ...
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