Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Friday ordered the Ministry of Natural Resources’ Local Content Secretariat to issue a Local Content Certificate to the RAMPS Logistics (Guyana) Limited whose parent company is headquartered in Trinidad & Tobago. She ordered the Director of the Local Content Secretariat Martin Pertab to properly fulfill his duties without discretion to register or cause the Secretariat ...
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President flays private sector for failing to grasp business opportunities; offers to assist in crafting proposals to bank
Even as President Irfaan Ali on Friday bashed the private sector for failing to take advantage of foreign investment opportunities from Saudi Arabia and South Korea, he announced that government was willing to help write business plans and negotiate with commercial banks for low interest loans. “I am ready, as your President, to help to put together a team to ...
Read More »Guyana ranks US company No. 1 to build natural gas electricity, liquids plants
President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced that the American-owned energy company, LINDSAYCA in a joint venture with CH4 Guyana, has been selected to forge ahead with negotiations to build an almost US$1 billion natural gas-fired electricity plant and natural gas liquids plant at Wales, West Bank Demerara. He said in a video statement on Facebook that Cabinet on Thursday also ...
Read More »Guyana needs to fast-track inclusion, sustainable economic growth for all- US
The United States is urging Guyana to be more inclusive at a faster pace and to go beyond cash grants by focussing on long term growth for all nationals of this oil-rich South American nation. “It is an ethnically divided society and s0 they will need to focus on inclusion and there have been many efforts to do so so ...
Read More »Guyana to rake in more ‘oil money’ from new oil blocks, local companies can explore for oil in first ever bid round slated for next year
Guyana is set to earn more money from the oil sector under a new Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) that would govern production from oil blocks, as the country prepares for its first ever bid round early next year for 14 offshore blocks, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said Wednesday. Mr Jagdeo also announced that Guyanese companies would be entitled to bid ...
Read More »Guyana, with FAO help, to update maps for the first time in 50 years
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Tuesday said it was assisting Guyana in updating its base maps of the country for the first time in more than 50 years. “The resulting data will then be entered into key layers to update the national base maps, which are over 50 years old,” that United Nations member organisation said in a ...
Read More »Tourist’s disappearance at Orinduik Falls puts spotlight on safety
The disappearance of a Guyanese tourist at Orinduik Falls in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) has brought into sharp focus the apparent absence of trained and qualified tour guides at that location. Based on an account from one of the other tourists, who was part of the group that flew in on Air Services Limited plane to the area, Mr Gladstone Haynes ...
Read More »BREAKING: Local tourist disappears at Orinduik Falls
A Guyanese tourist disappeared at Orinduik Falls while on a visit there on Sunday, prompting the mobilisation of a search and rescue team that includes soldiers to find him. Well-places sources identified the missing man as Gladstone Haynes. In a brief communication with Demerara Waves Online News, Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force Brigadier Godfrey Bess said members of the ...
Read More »ExxonMobil announces two more oil discoveries offshore Guyana
IRVING, Texas – ExxonMobil today announced two discoveries at the Sailfin-1 and Yarrow-1 wells in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana, adding to its extensive portfolio of development opportunities. ExxonMobil has made more than 30 discoveries on the block since 2015, and it has ramped up offshore development and production at a pace that far exceeds the industry average. “Our unrivaled ...
Read More »Opposition Leader cannot kickstart process to appoint Chancellor, Chief Justice- Nandlall
Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Sunday said the Opposition Leader could not initiate the process for the appointment of a substantive Chancellor and Chief Justice, instead saying that is the function of the President. “What is important is the President who must initiate the process of the appointment and securing the Opposition Leader’s agreement. It’s not the other way around. ...
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