Fire on Thursday morning gutted an apartment building on Fifth Street, Alberttown, Georgetown. Initial reports are that at least two  women have perished in the blaze at 136 Fifth Street. One 0f them was a Cuban and the other a Venezuelan. The apartment building was occupied by mainly Spanish-speaking persons.   Thick grey smoke billowed into the air shortly before ...

The ExxonMobil-led consortium is expected to increase its production from the Liza-1 well after a new flash-gas compressor system is installed during the last quarter of this year, even as the co-venturers prepare to drill more exploration wells in the coming months, Hess Corporation announced on Wednesday. Hess, which  has a 30 percent stake in the Esso Exploration and Production ...

A Britten-Norman Islander plane was Wednesday afternoon  damaged in an incident on the Aricheng runway in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), officials said. Director-General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Retired Lt. Col, Egbert Field said the plane belonging to Roraima Airways was involved in a runway excursion during take off at about 4:15 PM. He said no one was injured ...

ExxonMobil  on  Wednesday said it made a discovery at Whiptail in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, pushing this country’s resource estimate pass the current amount of 9 billion barrels of oil equivalent. The Whiptail-1 well encountered 246 feet (75 meters) of net pay in high quality oil bearing sandstone reservoirs. Drilling is also ongoing at the Whiptail-2 well, which has ...

The pro-People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Election Commissioners on Tuesday offered the termination of contracts as an another option for the exit of three top officials of that election management authority, a move the opposition side said it would be studying. Pro-opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Election Commissioner, Vincent Alexander said it is clear that the PPP ...

Region Nine Executive Officer, Karl Singh was Monday sent on leave and he has already been replaced until the investigation into the shooting of a woman in his vehicle is concluded, sources said. Police sources in Lethem have said investigators are awaiting advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The law enforcement agency officer said the vehicle in which ...

An 83-year old woman was burnt to death early Monday morning when the house she was living in at Block 22, Wismar Linden was destroyed by fire, police said. Dead is Norma Semple who resided by herself in a fully furnished one storey wooden structure in a completely fenced yard. Neighbour Alita Powell told police that between 02:15 and 02:50 ...

Years of domestic abuse by a man ended on Sunday when he died, as he tried to attack her with a knife at her parents’ residence at Providence, East Bank Demerara where she sought refuge on Saturday. The incident occurred at about 4:15 Sunday afternoon, leaving   Anthony Pakanram called Max dead. Police said he had a history of violence ...

An 18-year old man was Sunday afternoon stabbed by a woman in Tabatinga Drive, Lethem, Rupununi after he told her that he wanted to end their relationship, police said. The injured man has been identified as Brandon Bailey. Police late last night said they were still looking for the 20-year old woman. Investigators were told that the man returned home ...

One youth is critically injured after the car he and four others were travelling in slammed into a bridge and ended up in a canal at Den Amstel West Coast Demerara, police said. The accident occurred at about 9:30  Sunday night, as the driver of the hire car lost control of the vehicle while negotiating a turn on the Den ...