Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 21:40 by Writer The House bipartisan Public Accounts Committee (PAC) could soon be empowered to summon persons to account for public funds if PAC Chairman, Jermaine Figueira gets sufficient support from the government. He asked that the PAC be deemed a legislative body, as defined in Legislative Bodies (Evidence) Act, Chapter 2 of ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 21:08 by Writer ExxonMobil Guyana hopes that the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel can produce more than the current output of 252,000 barrels per day, company President Alistair Routledge said Tuesday. He says ExxonMobil, the operator in the Stabroek Block will seize the opportunity of installing gas risers for the gas-to-shore ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 28 April 2024, 19:09 by Writer An employee of Cevon’s Waste Management’s office in South Ruimveldt was shot and injured and the two masked bandits snatched salaries that were being paid to employees, police said Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at the company’s location on Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt. The actual ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 28 April 2024, 19:05 by Writer Several members of the Guyana Police Force are now under scrutiny after a video surfaced showing a number of them in a scuffle with a man at the Mackenzie Police Station. At least one of five uniformed policemen was seen kicking a man on the ground, in the video posted ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 28 April 2024, 19:02 by Writer The Georgetown City Council on Sunday dismantled and carted off vendors’ stalls on the pavement around Demico House, Cornhill and Croal Streets and ordered sellers present to remove permanently, in compliance with a High Court order obtained by Banks DIH Limited. The City Engineer, Colvern Venture said City Police would ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 27 April 2024, 19:22 by Writer Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, Jermaine Figueira at the weekend disagreed with calls by New York-based Guyanese political activists for a boycott of certain businesses in Brooklyn that welcomed President Irfaan Ali. “Boycotting Guyanese businesses “we own” people in a foreign land is just plain ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 27 April 2024, 19:13 by Writer The Institute of Private Enterprise Development Limited (IPED) announced on Saturday, through the release of its 2023 Annual Report, the disbursement of a total of 4,881 loans valued at $4.3 billion, which contributed to the creation and maintenance of 8,655 jobs, according to a statement.   According to Komal Samaroo, Chairman ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 27 April 2024, 19:06 by Writer by GHK Lall There must be some places that Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo must avoid going near. However deeply his sense of right and wrong is offended, he knows enough not to venture into critical public pronouncements of the judiciary over what he interprets to be overreach. Dr. Jagdeo knows ...

Last Updated on Friday, 26 April 2024, 19:45 by Writer A company that was awarded a GY$717 million contract to build a pump station at A-Line, Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara now has to pay liquidated damages because the 12-month project has been stalled beyond its original completion date by 10 months, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) said ...

Last Updated on Friday, 26 April 2024, 8:09 by Writer Despite reassurances by top officials of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) that there was no need to worry about the removal of a computer processing unit (CPU) from the party’s membership department, its Central Executive Committee (CEC) decided that the device must be checked by an expert. “To provide ...