Last Updated on Thursday, 10 June 2021, 16:38 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government on Thursday announced a raft of steps that would be taken to correct the historical wrongs concerning the bomb-blast death of Guyanese historian and co-leader of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), Dr. Walter Rodney 41 years ago. Attorney General Anil Nandlall said, in response to a ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 June 2021, 15:14 by Denis Chabrol A Region Nine District Development Officer (DDO) has been accused of embezzling more than GYD$800,000 after several employees of the Aishalton District complained that they had not received salaries Police said the 18-year old DDO has allegedly stolen GYD$867,144 cash at Aishalton Village, South Rupununi from the accounting unit of ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 June 2021, 13:56 by Denis Chabrol Retrenched workers from  the four sugar estates should be consulted on what could be done to satisfy their basic needs, an International Labour Organisation (ILO) study on the socio-economic impact of the closure of several estates four years ago has recommended. “Quite apart from the fact that there was ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 June 2021, 12:54 by Denis Chabrol An International Labour Organisation (ILO)-supported study on the impact of the closure of four of Guyana’s sugar estates has recommended the crafting of a strategy to withstand market volatility of commodities and gear up the sugar industry to invest in  ethanol production. The report titled “Study of the socio-economic ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 June 2021, 9:04 by Denis Chabrol A Corentyne woman, who planned to travel to the United States (US)  with a forged coronavirus vaccination certificate, has been arrested and placed on GYD$50,000 station bail, police said. A staff nurse at the Williamsburg Health Centre told Rose Hall police that on June 8 at about 3 PM, ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 June 2021, 7:28 by Denis Chabrol As Guyana prepares to host a Caribbean military exercise, Tradewinds, the United States (US) is urging Venezuela and Cuba to turn away two Iranian warships. An American publication, Politico, reports that the warships are believed to be carrying arms intended for transfer to Caracas. The US has vowed that ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 9 June 2021, 8:37 by Denis Chabrol IRVING, Texas – ExxonMobil today said it made a discovery at Longtail-3 in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. Drilling at Longtail-3 encountered 230 feet (70 meters) of net pay, including newly identified, high quality hydrocarbon bearing reservoirs below the original Longtail-1 discovery intervals. The well is located approximately two ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 9 June 2021, 8:24 by Denis Chabrol Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield, Deputy Chief Elections Officer Roxanne Myers and and the Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo are to be charged with two additional counts of fraud, police said. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum two “additional charges” of conspiracy to defraud. ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 9 June 2021, 10:48 by Denis Chabrol Attorney-at-Law Hubert Rodney was Tuesday night found dead in his home after police were called in to probe a stench emanating from his residence, sources said. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum said there were no marks of violence on the body and there was ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 5 June 2021, 23:44 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall The news came via technology, and it was startling.  Two senior employees of the Guyana Gold Board were terminated.  Given the two officers dismissed, and my own familiarity with both, I wonder what could have been the problem with them that was so grave as to ...