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The newly-formed Guyana Oil and Gas Energy Chamber (GOGEC) on Thursday made a pitch to become a member of the Petroleum Commission whenever it is set up, but the Natural Resources Minister Vickram Bharrat said it was too early to make that decision. A draft Petroleum Commission law is yet to be approved by the National Assembly. Speaking at the ...

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Wednesday  urged government to order frontline workers and persons  seeking service from restaurants and entertainment services to prove that they have been vaccinated or were recently tested negative for the coronavirus. “The Private Sector Commission further urges that the government require that all medical and security personnel in frontline contact with other persons must ...

The three suspects in the robbery of a 57-yeat old  businesswoman and her grandson at their grocery at Rockstone Junction were hours later arrested and several of the stolen items were recovered, the Guyana Police Force said. They are a 29-year-old man of Georgetown and two 25-year-old men of Linden. Police said the arrest was made at about 1:15 PM ...

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) plans to invest US$292 million in building a modern transmission and distribution system, and the company is banking on behavioural change to stop losing GYD$4 billion (US$18.6 billion) annually to electricity theft, Chief Executive Officer Bharat Dindyal said Friday. “We have developed a masterplan for transmission and distribution,” he told a webinar organised by ...

The propeller for a single-engine Cessna plane on Thursday disintegrated  on takeoff at the Kamarang Airstrip, sources said. The sources said no one was injured. The aircraft, bearing registration marking 8R-DAC,  is owned by Orlando Charles’ Domestic Airways. It was being piloted by a Nicaraguan man whose only name that is immediately available is Herbert Sources said the plane was ...

The Guyana government might have to write off just over GYD$19 million that had been spent on buying a closed circuit television system for the National Intelligence Centre in 2015 but which has never been delivered and the now bankrupt company cannot be located, officials said Wednesday. “This was a matter that was entered into and the CCTV (Closed-Circuit Television ...

A Cessna Caravan belonging to BK Aviation on Wednesday ran off the runway at Eteringbang in western Guyana but there were no immediate reports of injuries, a senior official of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said. Acting Director-General of the GCAA, Chitranie Hiralall told Demerara Waves Online News that the “runway excursion” occurred at about 11:34 AM. She said ...

The Western Hemispheric Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) is securing seeds, potato slips and cassava sticks from Jamaica and Brazil to help revive Guyana’s agriculture sector that has been ravaged by severe floods for more than one month now, officials said. Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha said IICA has already provided seedling trays and seeds to the National Agricultural ...

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has added 20 more call centre agents, as part of its overall efforts to improve the company’s response to customers’ queries and reports. The new agents graduated last Friday, and the company said the move aims to make it “a customer centric organisation.” Reminding that one of the company’s three promises is to ...

Eco (Atlantic) Oil and Gas Limited says the Jabilo-1 well, in the Canje Block, drilled by ExxonMobil is dry and will be plugged and abandoned, the company said on Monday. “The Jabillo-1 well in the Canje Block, offshore Guyana, reached its planned target depth and was evaluated but did not show evidence of commercial hydrocarbons,” Eco (Atlantic) said in a ...