An electrician has been jailed for one year after he pleaded guilty to stealing numerous street lights around the young professionals housing units at La Bonne Intention (LBI) Housing Scheme, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said Thursday. Police said 34-year-old Sharmo Jones of Plaisance Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara also told the court that he installed a number of the ...

by GHK Lall If one is of a certain frame of mind, lives a certain way, then there is everything to love, even admire, about Guyana’s chief policymaker, Dr. Bharat Jagdeo’s operating style. But only if one were disposed along some curly lines. Take this inspiring development involving a small army of senior public servants summoned to the Arthur Chung ...

by GHK Lall A few warm words of congratulations are extended to President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali for the product of his mind and his pen: a book. From one writer to another, it is good to have another penman as company, a Guyanese born and bred one, is even better. Ali the author does have a clean, glistening sound ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Suriname’s state-0wned oil company, Staatsolie, has been boasting that his country has clinched a far superior production sharing agreement with TotalEnergies compared to Guyana’s with ExxonMobil and its co-venturers. He said while Guyana has 2 percent royalty and 50 percent profit split and no taxes, Suriname’s agreement provides for 6.25 percent royalty, profit split based ...

Opposition parliamentarian, Jermaine Figueira, who was seen in social media pictures with President Irfaan Ali and former People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) members at the Providence Cricket Stadium on Tuesday, said he remained a member of that party but did not mean that he could not mingle with politicians from across the divide. “I’m a PNC man,” he told Demerara ...

A 70-year-old man, who was a pensioner, died on Tuesday when he was attacked by a swarm of bees in his home village of Novar, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, police said Wednesday. Imran Alli, also known as ‘Buddy’, a 70-year-old pensioner who resided at Lot 24 Novar, lost his life after he was reportedly attacked by a swarm of bees ...

A police sergeant lost a tooth and his colleague was also allegedly assaulted by a minibus driver after he was intercepted and arrested for reckless driving and suspicion of being drunk, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said Wednesday. The law enforcement agency said the bus driver, Feroze Khan, of Hosororo, North West District, allegedly damaged the police vehicle and the ...

A family member of a government politician, who was involved in a road accident that resulted in the death of a woman, on Tuesday remained hospitalised, police said. The woman, who died in the accident on La Bonne Intention (LBI) Railway Embankment Road, has been identified as Salima Heeralal. She was an occupant in a vehicle that was driven by ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire has deemed Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s description of opposition politician Catherine Hughes as a “low life” unacceptable and chided political and other leaders in Guyana for behaviour that could lead to violent crime. Though the Chief Justice dismissed Ms Hughes’ lawsuit against Mr Jagdeo for racial and gender discrimination, she said the Vice President’s characterisation, which ...

A Guyanese-owned oil exploration company is among 27 companies that submitted bids to market Guyana’s crude entitlement from the three floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels in the Stabroek Block. The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) officials did not announce the prices that were proposed and, instead, referred queries to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of ...