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Three persons were early Sunday morning arrested for allegedly attempting to scam a number of Automatic Teller Machines (ATM), police said. The Guyana Police Force said at about 12:15 Sunday morning detectives from its Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Headquarters arrested the woman and two men who scammers who were under surveillance after a report was made that they were targeting ...

Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Friday announced a significant enhancement to its medical services by providing free knee and hip replacement surgeries, including revision procedures, free of cost to patients. The GPHC said following a proactive proposal from the hospital management to the Board of Directors, the decision to remove all charges for these vital procedures was accepted, ensuring ...

The Ministry of Natural Resources has deducted 15 days’ pay from the salary of Senior Petroleum Coordinator, Gopnauth ‘Bobby’ Gossai after internal probe found that he engaged ExxonMobil without authorisation in the reduction of US$214 million in the cost bank of an audit of Stabroek Block expenses from 1999-2017. The Natural Resources Ministry said he was not only fined but ...

The State has asked the High Court to decide 0n the value of 1.9 acres of compulsorily acquired land at Canal Number 1, West Bank Demerara along the path of the gas-to-shore pipeline after the then owner repeatedly refused GY$2.5 million in compensation plus rem In court papers seen by Demerara Waves Online News, Head of the Gas to Energy ...

The wholly-owned Guyanese company, SISPRO Inc, is among several major international oil companies that have won bids to explore for oil offshore Guyana, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo announced on Wednesday. “This is a very risky sector and I’m extremely pleased that the locals have been able to organise themselves to work with some foreign companies and put in the bids,” ...

ExxonMobil, the operator in the Stabroek Block, has reportedly found more oil at the Lancetfish-2 appraisal well, the Ministry of Natural Resources said Thursday. Government described the find as a “significant discovery”.  “The Lancetfish-2 discovery in the Liza Petroleum Production License area has unveiled an estimated 20 meters of hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir, along with approximately 81 meters of additional hydrocarbon-bearing sandstone.” ...

The way is now almost clear for Guyanese to keep their existing phone numbers and decide whether to change the phone companies, the three telecommunications providers and the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) said. “The operators are about to enter a final testing period before the launch of number portability,” the said in a joint statement. As part of the launch ...

A gold miner, architect and contractors were early Sunday morning shot and injured during a robbery committed on a gold miner at a business place in Diamond, East Bank Demerara, police said. The man from whom a 9 MM handgun, 10 rounds of ammunition a 38-pennyweight gold chain was stolen has been identified by police as gold miner 45-year-old Aubrey ...

The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA) will be assisting in the conversion of the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA) into a Centre for Excellence in Agriculture and the establishment of a technology-driven data centre for farmers in the region, President Irfaan Ali announced on Friday. “IICA and the government of Guyana have agreed that we will develop a ...

ExxonMobil’s planned refusal to sign the new model Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) over concerns about Guyana lacking capacity to grant approvals was Thursday strongly rebuffed by the Guyana government. “We said we got feedback on the PSA and would not sign it as it was,” ExxonMobil Guyana’s President, Alistair Routledge told a news conference this week. Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo ...