Last Updated on Sunday, 24 April 2022, 20:53 by Denis Chabrol Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira said ‘findings’ from the national public opinion poll conducted by the International Republican Institute (IRI) on Guyana’s electoral reform, lacks integrity and does not reflect the views of Guyanese. Minister Teixeira made it clear that any poll conducted in Guyana that ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 24 April 2022, 19:39 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s public and private sector now has a large US$10 million dredge available in-country that would be used to clear the country’s major waterways to accommodate larger and more oil-sector related vessels and the eventual construction of a deep-water port, officials said Saturday. Already, President Irfaan Ali said based ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 April 2022, 18:52 by Denis Chabrol ExxonMobil Sales and Supplies would be buying Guyana’s first entitlement of 1 million barrels of oil from the new Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel but that company would not be charging a marketing fee, the Ministry of Natural Resources said Saturday. “The ExxonMobil affiliate bid was the ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 April 2022, 18:18 by Denis Chabrol Police have arrested two of three men who allegedly robbed a businessman of 12 gold chains worth GY$1.5 million on Friday night, that law enforcement agency said Saturday. Commander for Regional Division #3, Senior Superintendent Mahendra Siwnarine said 30-year old Ren Persaud of Crane Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 April 2022, 17:49 by Denis Chabrol A prime suspect in an armed robbery of a vendor in Sophia, Greater Georgetown and seven other men stormed the home of the victim several hours after he reported the incident to police, investigators said Saturday. Twenty-seven year old Glenroy Griffith of ‘B’ Field, Sophia told police that at ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 April 2022, 17:11 by Denis Chabrol Guyana National Forensic Laboratory experts on Saturday ruled out the rock-like substances, found in a car with the bodies of two dead men on the Marriott Hotel parking lot, being narcotics but they suspect that it is sodium cyanide which is lethal in small quantities. The Guyana Police Force ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 April 2022, 11:42 by Denis Chabrol Air Services Limited (ASL) said its Cessna Caravan 8RGAS suffered an engine fire upon shutdown at ASL ramp Ogle after returning from a Mathew’s Ridge flight Saturday morning at about 10:30. “The company’s emergency response team contained the fire and secured the aircraft. The pilot and 3 passengers safely ...

Last Updated on Friday, 22 April 2022, 23:55 by Denis Chabrol A mere four months after Dr. Richard Van West-Charles was appointed advisor to the Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton, he on Friday appeared set to pull out from that post over concerns about his leader’s poor communication and lack of consultation. “I have therefore ...

Last Updated on Friday, 22 April 2022, 15:16 by Denis Chabrol A Guyanese man, who is wanted in his native country for murder, has been arrested in neighbouring Suriname for having committing a sexual offence with an 11-year old girl, Surinamese police said Thursday. The Suriname Police Corps said a special team from the Youth Affairs Department on Wednesday, April ...

Last Updated on Friday, 22 April 2022, 14:08 by Denis Chabrol A US$300 million shorebase would be constructed at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Bank Demerara by a wholly-owned Guyanese company, and ExxonMobil on Friday inked a deal to lease the facility when it is finished in the fourth quarter of 2023. Speaking at the signing of the agreement between Vreed-en-Hoop Shorebase Inc ...