Guyana has saved just over US$800 million from more than US$3 billion in oil revenues since production began in 2020, even as the country is set to sell 27 entitled lifts this year now that production has begun at the Payara project, officials said. After government’s total withdrawals of US$1.002 billion in 2023 from the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) based ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Friday said it proposed a motion for the bipartisan parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to be empowered to summon former officials to appear before that body that questions the spending of monies from the coffers based on observations from the Auditor General’s reports. “The PAC does not have the power to summon persons to ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton said Alliance For Change’s (AFC) David Patterson would continue be the opposition coalition’s spokesman on oil and gas. Mr Norton on Thursday told a news conference that Mr Holder, an engineer, would be Shadow Minister of Natural Resources which includes  oil and gas, but Patterson would continue to speak on the subject in the National Assembly. ...

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) executive member, Jermaine Figueira has admitted that Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton’s assessment of his performance as Shadow Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport is accurate, but he maintains that he was disrespectfully ousted from the Shadow Cabinet. “He is absolutely correct in every regard; no one has ever been this astute and pointed in their ...

The warhead that was in stuck in a five-year old girl’s throat was removed successfully and she on Friday remained hospitalised in a stable condition, the Guyana Police Force said. The girl was reportedly shot by her uncle while lying in bed after a bullet protruded a wall between the two apartments. Investigators said the prime suspect in the incident, ...

Embattled People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) executive member and opposition coalition parliamentarian, Jermaine Figueira is not being courted to join the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), that party’s General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday. “As General Secretary of the party, we’ve never had any such engagement with Figueira about joining the PPP,” he said when asked by Demerara Waves Online News. ...

The long-delayed congress of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is expected to be held in May, 2024, party General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo said  Thursday. “The Executive met last Saturday and they decided that I think it’s the first week in May,” he told a news conference at Freedom House, the PPP’s headquarters. The 32nd Congress should have been held in ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Thursday defended his decision to oust Jermaine Figueira from the Shadow Cabinet and replace him with Nima Flue-Bess because she is qualified and involved in sport. He hinted that Mr Figueira- as Shadow Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport- was neglecting to focus on sport countrywide. “You have Youth, Sport and Culture where there are ...

Agents of the Guyana Revenue Authority and the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) have seized a motor vessel with quantities of uncustomed beers, foreign chicken and cigarettes worth of an estimated GY$5.5 million, GRA said Thursday. “The uncustomed goods and motor vessel were secured pending the outcome of further investigations which have commenced,” GRA said. GRA said its Law Enforcement and ...

The Guyana government has asked the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IACHR) to withdraw its provisional measures for the Indigenous Indian community of Chinese Landing where residents there had alleged severe physical violence and environmental degradation by a number of gold miners, Minister of  Governance Gail Teixeira said Wednesday. Minister Teixeira said government last December wrote to the IACHR asking for ...