Last Updated on Thursday, 9 February 2023, 20:34 by Denis Chabrol Even as the National Assembly awaits replies from Natural Minister Vickram Bharrat to an opposition coalition question in the National Assembly about who would be paying for ExxonMobil’s just under US$160 million new headquarters at Ogle and how spending on the project is being monitored, a top company official ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 9 February 2023, 15:39 by Denis Chabrol ExxonMobil is awaiting the outcome of a review of the multi-million United States (US) dollar gas-to-energy project before making its Final Investment Decision (FID), though preliminary works have started along the route of the pipeline in the West Bank Demerara, a senior official said Thursday. “We are in review ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 9 February 2023, 9:27 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Police Force said its Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), on Wednesday laid 268 charges of Money Laundering and conspiracy to launder over $4.1B against a Herstelling, East Bank Demerara family after close to three years of investigation. Charged are Kenneth Kellawan Ramnarine, a taxi driver, Damian Brandon ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 19:28 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday announced that military officers would undergo training on territorial issues so that they could train other members of the Disciplined Services at border locations as well as school-age children living in communities there. “I believe strongly that they should be very knowledgeable. Part of ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 16:23 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said the Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force and other military chiefs across the Caribbean were assessing the worsening Haitian political crisis which is also on the agenda of regional leaders at their mid-term summit scheduled for next week in The Bahamas. “I’m sure ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 14:52 by Denis Chabrol Former Region Four Police Divisional Commander, Assistant Commissioner Edgar Thomas on Wednesday told the 2020 Elections Commission of Inquiry (COI) that at the height of a bomb scare at the District Four Returning Office that informed an Election Commissioner that he could no longer protect him because the heavily ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 0:19 by Denis Chabrol The United States-headquartered oil well drilling support company, Schlumberger (SLB), has applied for a fresh permit to store radioactive material in pits near the Demerara River, but representatives of the company on Tuesday ran into a firestorm of criticism at a public consultation. Schlumberger’s Legal Counsel, Kyle Prescod told ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 February 2023, 22:04 by Denis Chabrol Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh on Tuesday cancelled the temporary position of ‘Operations Coordinator’, amid a firm stance by the opposition-aligned Elections Commissioners who believed that they managed to convince her that she had no power to do so unilaterally. Her decision effectively ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 February 2023, 21:32 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Tuesday signaled that the country was once again moving closer towards the holding of Local Government Elections (LGE) after the March 13, 2023 date was aborted, but the opposition abstained from voting on the workplan. A highly placed source said LGE could be ...

Last Updated on Monday, 6 February 2023, 16:02 by Denis Chabrol The opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) wants government to prove that monies being allocated to the gas-to-energy project are properly spent. In a motion sponsored by coalition parliamentarian Ganesh Mahipaul and Jermaine Figueira, they are asking Minister of ...