Last Updated on Thursday, 17 November 2022, 14:59 by Denis Chabrol Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat on Thursday signaled strongly that government might amend Guyana’s Local Content Act to halt the participation of persons who opportunistically obtain Guyanese citizenship to cash in on opportunities in the country’s rapidly emerging oil and gas sector to the disadvantage of those who ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 17 November 2022, 13:20 by Denis Chabrol Venezuela on Wednesday said the International Court of Justice (ICJ) could not hear Guyana’s case that the 1899 Arbitral Award with that Spanish-speaking western neighbour is a full, final and perfect settlement of the land boundary between the two South American nations because Britain is not a party to ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 17 November 2022, 7:38 by Denis Chabrol Queen’s College teachers  are demanding that a senior member of the legal fraternity apologise to the Deputy Headmistress for his hostile encounter with her last week Friday or be banned from entering that school, according to well-placed sources. Chairman of Queen’s College’s Board of Governors Marcel Gaskin confirmed that ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 22:04 by Denis Chabrol United Kingdom Trade Commissioner for Latin America and the Caribbean , Jonathan Knotts on Wednesday said that a working group would be established with Guyana to work on a range of projects within strict deadlines, even as he said his country was keen on delivering high quality work rather ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 13:26 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said  Guyana could offer the United Kingdom (UK) energy security by guaranteeing hydrocarbon supplies to its former colonial power which does not have a reserve. Speaking during the working session of a meeting with a United Kingdom trade delegation and Trade Commissioner for Latin ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 9:12 by Denis Chabrol NEWARK, N.J. – A Guyanese citizen was arraigned on Tuesday on drug conspiracy charges, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Dennis Edwards, aka “Death,” 38, is charged in an indictment returned in 2012 with conspiring to import five kilograms or more of cocaine from St. Maarten into the United ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 8:06 by Denis Chabrol Teachers at Queen’s College are to go on a go-slow on Wednesday to protest the alleged hostile attitude of a senior member of the legal fraternity whose daughter attends that school, sources said. The Headmistress briefed teachers a representative of the Board of Governors and a representative of the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 22:35 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday night announced that government would be pumping an undisclosed amount of the oil money into business initiatives by Guyanese here and overseas. “I’m working to see how we can create a business model in which every Guyanese here and in diaspora can have an ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 22:05 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday night announced that the salary scales of government workers would be adjusted, a move that would see them earning more. “Today I asked the Minister of Finance to complete the work on the adjustment in the lower scales because we have to work with ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 13:51 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday discarded British High Commissioner Jane Miller’s view that the existing voters list could be used with current safeguards, but conceded that the opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) would only endorse positions that are in its interest. He ...