Last Updated on Saturday, 31 October 2020, 12:21 by Denis Chabrol The U.S. State Department has approved a possible sale of two Bell 412EPi and two Bell 429 helicopters to Guyana for an estimated US$256 million, the Defence Post reported on Saturday. While the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is expected to be involved in processing some paperwork at a ...

Last Updated on Friday, 30 October 2020, 14:13 by Denis Chabrol Bibi Goopaul, who along with her former lover, Jarvis Small were sentenced to 102- and 96-years’ imprisonment respectively for the 2010 murder of her 16-year-old daughter Ms Neesa Gopaul, on Friday asked the Court of Appeal to quash their conviction. Hearing the case were Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 29 October 2020, 13:33 by Denis Chabrol Hess Corporation, one of the co-venturers in the Stabroek Block, is keeping its eyes on Guyana as a low-cost supplier of oil, saying that global projections show that the world needs just under 50 percent oil and gas in an energy mix up  to another 30 years by when ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 October 2020, 23:20 by Denis Chabrol Noble Corporation plc’s ultra-deepwater drillship Noble Tom Madden has received about 6.5 years of additional contract term under the commercial enabling agreement (CEA) with ExxonMobil for work offshore Guyana, Mercopress reported Wednesday.Ulr The Noble Tom Madden was previously contracted until mid-February 2024, and the additional term will extend the ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 October 2020, 22:12 by Denis Chabrol The Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs on Wednesday said he would be seeking legal advice on Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister Oneidge Waldron’s renunciation of her American citizenship. “I am going to seek legal advice and I don’t want to make any statement and I am not ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 October 2020, 19:33 by Denis Chabrol The 15-year old  son of former presidential candidate of The Citizenship Initiative (TCI) presidential candidate and well-known teacher, Rondha-Ann Lam earlier Wednesday shot himself to death at their residence at Triumph, East Coast Demerara. Crime scene detectives said a suspected gunshot wound was seen to the left side temple ...

Last Updated on Monday, 26 October 2020, 18:13 by Denis Chabrol The swearing in of 10 Regional Council Chairmen and Vice Chairmen-including those from the opposition- before President Irfaan Ali do not set the stage for political dialogue with the opposition, he said Monday. The President drew a distinction between his role in swearing in the Regional Chairmen and Vice ...

Last Updated on Monday, 26 October 2020, 16:35 by Denis Chabrol A 15-year old schoolboy on Monday remained hospitalised in a “serious” condition after he was stabbed during an argument over claims that his mother, who is a nurse, contracted COVID-19. Injured is Riyaad Hussain, a student of Canje Secondary School and resident of St Magdalene Street, New Amsterdam Berbice. ...

Last Updated on Monday, 26 October 2020, 6:54 by Denis Chabrol Investigators were Monday morning continuing their probe into the death of an 86-year old grocer whose body was found with her hands and feet tied in her bedroom at La Grange, West Bank Demerara, two hours after she credited eddoes to a farmer. Police believe that Bibi Ramjit of ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 25 October 2020, 14:36 by Denis Chabrol The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) is wary of electoral reforms that can risk the further politicisation of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). Executive Director of the Leader of the Opposition’s Office, Aubrey Norton said the search in 2018 and 2019 ...