Last Updated on Sunday, 20 December 2020, 10:30 by Denis Chabrol ExxonMobil on Sunday announced that its Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel offshore Guyana has reached full production capacity of 120,000 barrels and the company had significantly reduced flaring of natural gas with the commissioning of its gas injection system. “Earlier this month, the Liza Destiny floating production ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 20 December 2020, 10:05 by Denis Chabrol Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Oneidge Walrond has lauded the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) for opening two news stores and creating jobs for communities in which they are operating, saying it is a sign of confidence in the economy. Minister Walrond, who commissioned the stores at ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 20 December 2020, 13:30 by Denis Chabrol Fire Sunday morning destroyed a house at Eccles, East Bank Demerara, leaving a family of four homeless, fire and police sources confirmed. The thick black smoke could be seen from miles billowing from 94 CC Eccles nearer to the Industrial Site. Police said no one was injured and none ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 20 December 2020, 10:58 by Denis Chabrol Residents and businesses in the north-western Guyanese town of Mabaruma now have 24 hours electricity supply, with the installation of a new generator, government said. Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said the cost of the new generator is GYD$9.9 million. The generator was installed at the Mabaruma Power station ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 19 December 2020, 17:19 by Denis Chabrol The Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Saturday called for several top officials not to be part of the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) machinery before Local Government Elections (LGE) are held, and urged the GECOM Chairman Retired Justice Claudette Singh to break her silence about what is happening at that ...

Last Updated on Monday, 28 December 2020, 0:22 by Writer The mother and brother of one of the Henrys who were brutally hacked to death in September, have been slapped with several charges related the altercation between them and policemen at the Sparendaam Police Station earlier this week. Police said 24-year-old Colwyn Henry and his mother Gail Johnson, both of ...

Last Updated on Monday, 28 December 2020, 0:18 by Writer A 38-year-old woman and her two-year-old grandson of Friendship Canal Lower, Pomeroon River drowned late Friday night as they were heading home in a wooden balahoo fitted with a 75 Horse Power (HP) engine and driven by her drunken husband, police said. The boat was driven by her husband, 42-year-old ...

Last Updated on Friday, 18 December 2020, 15:12 by Denis Chabrol Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Friday asked the State to prove that it obeyed the Combatting in Trafficking In Persons Act, after claiming that the now departed 26 Haitians had been deemed as victims of people trafficking. “I am just more interested in the legal issues that I have ...

Last Updated on Friday, 18 December 2020, 13:17 by Denis Chabrol Newly-minted Senior Counsel, Timothy Jonas is recommending a broad-based committee of legal experts be established to recommend to the President who should be conferred with Silk, following a High Court ruling that cited the need for a transparent process. Attorney General Anil Nandlall, during the case about the role ...

Last Updated on Monday, 28 December 2020, 0:19 by Writer The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday ruled that it could hear Guyana’s case on the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award that settled the land dispute with Venezuela, even as that Spanish-speaking country was criticised for not participating in the hearing on the jurisdiction of the World ...