Eureka’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), William Andrew Boyle adds yet another feather to his cap, as he was bestowed an Honorary Doctorate of Letters, by the University of Guyana (UG) on December 9, 2022 during its Commencement Exercises.  Boyle also gave the Graduation address. An honorary degree is an academic tribute to those whose life and work exemplify professional, intellectual, ...

The High Court on Friday ruled that the France-headquartered Schlumberger, a global provider of products and services to ExxonMobil’s operations in Guyana, must stop storing, using and possessing radioactive materials at its facility at Houston, East Bank Demerara. Justice Nareshwar Harnanan, in handing down his decision, agreed with the plaintiffs that the environmental permits awarded by the Guyana government’s Environmental ...

ExxonMobil will next year have to relinquish 20 percent of the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana and that area would eventually be auctioned, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said on December 9. “Exxon has this huge area and so next year I think they have to relinquish 20 percent of that,” he told a news conference.  ExxonMobil is the operator in the ...

President Irfaan Ali Thursday night encouraged overseas-based Guyanese and local investors to pool their monies to invest in condominiums in upscale areas. “We have a lot of liquidity that exists in the Diaspora. This is a challenge to the Diaspora. I challenge you today. You can’t do it individually, come together,” he said. Addressing the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and ...

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Timothy Tucker on Thursday appealed t0 government to scrap the excise tax on new vehicles to allow ordinary Guyanese and the country as a whole to benefit in several ways. While acknowledging that Guyana’s roads are congested, the Chamber said the removal of the excise tax would see Guyanese having ...

Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine and opposition parliamentarian Sherod Duncan were Thursday morning granted GY$200,000 bail each on race-related charges and they were gagged from saying anything publicly about the cases, their defence lawyer Roysdale Forde said. Mr Narine was charged with the offence of obstructing traffic in relation to placing a wooden pallet on New Market Street. Mr Narine and ...

The Guyana Police Force on Thursday said a request has been dispatched to the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) for more information on the Nigerian man, who staged a daring knife and gun attack on presidential guards at State House that resulted in him being shot and injured. Police identified the man as 35-year old Bethel Ikenna Chimezie and said ...

A man, who demanded to see President Irfaan Ali, stabbed a policeman several times to his neck, grabbed a lawman’s pistol and opened fire several times, was shot and injured. No one has been reported killed. The suspect and the policeman are hospitalised in a stable condition. Carmichael Street and New Narket Streets near State House were cordoned off. Traffic ...

by GHK Lall I am disappointed at my brother, His Worship, Pandit Ubraj Narine, Mayor of Georgetown.  His choice of subjects, and the way he went about his delivery left much to be desired.  My position on discriminatory practices by the PPP Government is well-known, needs no reintroduction, speaks its own volumes.  Relative to Mayor Narine, his frontal assault, through ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton is hoping that the arrest and charge of City Mayor Ubraj Narine and opposition parliamentarian Sherod Duncan will galvanise supporters against what he terms political harassment by the government but the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) said he is stoking racism. The Opposition condemns the actions of the PPP regime and warns them that they ...