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Guyanese pilot and businessman, Orlando Charles, is on GY$1.3 million bail after he pleaded not guilty to trafficking in 16 Venezuelans, police said. He appeared virtually before Bartica Magistrate, Crystal Lambert on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 and pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. Mr Charles was granted GY$1,328,000 bail and ordered to return to court on June 14 ...

Police said they found suspected poison and a note near the bodies of a decomposed woman and her 13-year old daughter in their home at New Providence, East Bank Demerara. “Three plastic bottles, one glass bottle containing liquid substances and two cups were found next to the bodies while two small glass containers containing a whitish substance were recovered from ...

Digicel Guyana has been recognized by Ookla, the global leaders in internet testing and analysis, for offering its customers in Guyana the Fastest Mobile Network, Best Mobile Coverage, and Best Mobile Network. This acknowledgement is based on Ookla’s Speedtest testing data for the period from July to December 2022, which showcased Digicel’s mobile network achieving impressive upload and download speeds. ...

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Saturday urged Guyanese to strike a balance between the need to earn revenues from the oil and gas sector and the need to ensure there is sufficient cash to clean up after an oil spill. “It is inconceivable that any sensible Guyanese would consider reversing this massive progress but, yes, every sensible Guyanese must ...

ExxonMobil and its co-venturers could lose at least US$350 million monthly in revenues if the Court of Appeal does not later this month suspend High Court orders that require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enforce insurance and unlimited financial guarantees and the companies fails to secure them, senior ExxonMobil officials said Friday. “If we can’t meet the requirements of ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday  welcomed the receipt of  a bigger offer for the state-owned Marriott-branded hotel in Kingston, Georgetown. In the second round of bidding, the first one having been scrapped because of the low offers, American businessman, Ramy El-Batrawi and  founder of the investment group X, LLC increased his bid by US$25 million, taking it to US$90 ...

The new high-span four-lane Demerara Harbour Bridge, which will not have to retract for boats to pass up and down the waterway, is expected to trigger the development of more shorebases and other riverside facilities to support Guyana’s rapidly expanding oil and gas sector, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said. Addressing a workshop by the Inter-American Development (IDB) to support ...

Guyanese are from July, 2023 expected to be able to keep their existing phone numbers but change to a phone company of their choice, Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) Dela Britton announced on Wednesday. “PUC now eagerly awaits the completion of the testing processes and we anticipate that number portability will become a reality in Guyana in July ...

ExxonMobil’s Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) and the Guyana government have asked the High Court to be parties to a case brought by two civil society activists to force the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revoke the gas-to-shore permit on the basis that that the company has not shown that it has the legal right to use the ...

The Guyana government and opposition on Wednesday agreed to amend the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act to provide for the licensing of electronic bikes (E-bikes), in an effort to regulate that newer mode of road transportation which has partly contributed to an increase in road accidents. The amendment means that persons under 16-years old would be prohibited from operating ...