The University of Guyana (UG) on Tuesday announced that it would continue to work Online and so courses for the first semester of the new academic year would not be held in face-to-face classrooms “Due to the ongoing situation with COVID-19 thenstitution will continue to work in safe mode online with essential services being performed on the University’s campuses,” UG ...

Parliamentary sittings will be held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) to ensure there is sufficient distance among parliamentarians and other persons  as part of the COVID-19 fight. Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs says no date has been fixed for the convening of Parliament for the first time after the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections. ...

Police say Detector Operator, who works in the Chi-Chi backdam goldfields, has been robbed of $4.4 million by two gunmen who invaded his home at Nismes, West Bank Demerara. Police Force spokesman, Royston Andries did not disclose the name of the robbery victim, in what appears to be a new practice by the Guyana Police Force. The incident occurred at ...

Workers of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) have gotten a GYD$350 million bail out to pay salaries to staff and utility bills, the Ministry of Natural Resources said Monday. The Ministry of Natural Resources also said that before year-end workers would be paid their $25,000 bonus that had been announced in 2018 by the David Granger-led administration. Natural Resources Minister, ...

ExxonMobil has begun drilling its deepest well in Guyana to a depth of 8,000 metres of water in search of another oil field in the lucrative basin that has so far yielded several commercial discoveries. “We started drilling the Tanager-1 in the Kaieteur Block offshore Guyana about two weeks ago,” an ExxonMobil spokeswoman told News-Talk Radio Guyana 103.1 /Demerara Waves ...

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Chairman, Volda Lawrence was Monday granted GYD$100,000 bail on a fraud charge. She was not required to plea to the charge that states on March 5, 2020, she procured Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo to utter a forged Form 24 to the Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield in an attempt to defraud the State ...

The Chairman of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), Tabitha Sarabo-Halley has resigned, even as that party maintains that it was not consulted on who should have been the person selected to become Parliamentarian. Mrs. Sarabo-Halley confirmed Sunday night that she has resigned from the WPA and she does not intend to revisit her decision. Asked whether she intends to remain ...

The Guyana government has decided to scrap the prequalification process in a fresh round of request for proposals for a company to sell the country’s crude oil from the Liza Phase One well. The request was published in notices published in the daily newspapers by the Department of Energy of the Ministry of Natural Resources. Minister of Natural Resources , ...

The Lusignan Prison, where there have been untests including a recent devastating fire, is to be expanded as a priority project, authorities said. “High on the agenda will be the construction of additional areas so that social distancing can be practiced, and better supervision and management of the prisoners can be conducted,” the Guyana Prison Service said in a statement. ...

Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony says there are more COVID-19 positive cases now because the reason for testing has changed. Latest available figures show that there were 44 new cases in the last 36 hours. In all, 74 persons are hospitalised, They include 11 in the Intensive Care Unit. Another 383 are isolated at home under strict conditions. Seventy-nine ...