The fire that ravaged the Parika Market last Friday was due to poor safety measures during welding at a steel frame for the new market, the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) said on Sunday. “While the GFS regrets the loss of the market, if the correct safety measures were followed, this tragedy could have been avoided,” that emergency response agency said ...
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APNU+AFC gov’t, ExxonMobil had no agreement for Guyana to pay for new headquarters -Mahipaul
Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian Ganesh Mahipaul on Friday said his then governing coalition and ExxonMobil never agreed that the US$160 million that would be spent on building a new headquarters building at Ogle, East Coast Demerara would be recovered from oil revenues. “I’m guided that there were discussions and there was no agreement with ...
Read More »Guyana risked significant investment fallout if oil agreement was scrapped, renegotiated
President Irfaan Ali on Friday sought to justify the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration’s decision not to scrap or renegotiate the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) between government and the ExxonMobil-owned Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL). While in opposition, the PPPC had criticised the PSA that had been inked by the A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change ...
Read More »BREAKING: Parika Market on fire
Fire was Friday afternoon destroying stalls at Parika Market near the stelling, according to eyewitnesses. The many wooden stalls were being engulfed by flames. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. Stallholders usually sell fruits, vegetables, electronic items, clothing and other items. The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph and the Guyana Post Office Corporation are located nearby the market.
Read More »PPP, APNU+AFC aware of ExxonMobil’s new headquarters deal- Routledge
Even as the National Assembly awaits replies from Natural Minister Vickram Bharrat to an opposition coalition question in the National Assembly about who would be paying for ExxonMobil’s just under US$160 million new headquarters at Ogle and how spending on the project is being monitored, a top company official on Thursday said both major political parties were aware of the ...
Read More »Gas to energy project awaits review with govt- ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil is awaiting the outcome of a review of the multi-million United States (US) dollar gas-to-energy project before making its Final Investment Decision (FID), though preliminary works have started along the route of the pipeline in the West Bank Demerara, a senior official said Thursday. “We are in review process with the Ministry of Natural Resources currently on the Field ...
Read More »Trio charged with laundering GY$4.1 billion after undercover probe
The Guyana Police Force said its Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), on Wednesday laid 268 charges of Money Laundering and conspiracy to launder over $4.1B against a Herstelling, East Bank Demerara family after close to three years of investigation. Charged are Kenneth Kellawan Ramnarine, a taxi driver, Damian Brandon Ramnarine, a salesman and Yevette Nalini Saroop, a businesswoman, all of ...
Read More »Schlumberger applies for new permit to store radioactive materials underground near Demerara River
The United States-headquartered oil well drilling support company, Schlumberger (SLB), has applied for a fresh permit to store radioactive material in pits near the Demerara River, but representatives of the company on Tuesday ran into a firestorm of criticism at a public consultation. Schlumberger’s Legal Counsel, Kyle Prescod told reporters after the consultation that after the application to the Environmental ...
Read More »Opposition demands information on gas to shore project
The opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) wants government to prove that monies being allocated to the gas-to-energy project are properly spent. In a motion sponsored by coalition parliamentarian Ganesh Mahipaul and Jermaine Figueira, they are asking Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat to provide the National Assembly with all ...
Read More »Afro-Guyanese organisation asks Attorney General for meeting on end of cash support
The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly- Guyana (IDPADA-G) on Monday formally asked government to hold talks on the withdrawal of a multi-million dollar annual subsidy which was scrapped last year. Chairman of IDPADA-G, Vincent Alexander said his organisation dispatched a letter to Attorney General Anil Nandlall, as the government representative, asking for dialogue with the aim of ...
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