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In what is described as a partnership to decrease risk, local oil exploration company Mid Atlantic Oil and Gas Inc. has teamed up with oil giant ExxonMobil in an agreement that will see the company exploring for oil on behalf of Mid Atlantic. The local company has petroleum concessions in the offshore Guyana Basin in the general location of Exxon’s ...

A Brazilian and a Barbadian company are among  five entities that are in the race to rehabilitate and operate the Moco-Moco Hydropower Plant in Lethem, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure said Monday. Under a Build, Own, Operate, Transfer (BOOT) structure, power will be supplied to the Lethem Power Company grid under a negotiated and agreed Power Purchase Agreement, government said. ...

Nineteen Community Development Councils (CDCs) in Mahaica-Berbice and East Berbice-Corentyne on Sunday (April 3, 2016), received letters of approval for small grants under the Government of Guyana’s community development project, which is being implemented through the Ministry of Communities. First Lady Mrs. Sandra Granger was on hand to present the letters of approval to the successful groups. “This is part ...

President David Granger on Sunday congratulated the West Indies male and female teams on their emphatic victories earlier in the day in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) World Twenty20 and Women’s World Twenty20 championships. The President said that these victories provide us with an opportunity to celebrate and be proud of our collective achievement as a region. The teams’ thrilling victories ...

Prime Minister of Grenada and Chairman of the CARICOM Subcommittee on Cricket Governance, Dr. the Right Hon. Keith Mitchell, has congratulated the West Indies Men’s and Women’s teams on their heartwarming victories in the World T20 competitions earlier today. The Men’s team defeated England in the Finals by four wickets, with two balls remaining; scoring four consecutive sixes in the ...

A jilted man on Sunday shot and injured his ex-lover moments after she arrived home in the company of another man, police said. The Guyana Police Force said crime sleuths were still on the manhunt for the assailant. Injured are 41- year old Simone Belle of Half Mile, Wismar and Sherwin Hughes, 41 years, of Blueberry Hill, Wismar. Investigators said ...

 A  Jamaican man on Sunday remained in custody following the seizure of cocaine at a house at Friendship Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara. Investigators said during Saturday April 02, 2016, ranks of the Police Narcotics Unit conducted a search at the house during which one kilogram of cocaine which had been compressed in the form of shoe soles was found. A ...

Minister of Education, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine  on Saturday said he is in strongly in favour of discouraging secondary school students from writing more than eight Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) subjects because those who sit more than that number of exams are not benefiting from a rounded education. “I am strongly in favour of whatever mechanism we can find to discourage the ...

Even before the dust had settled as the Georgetown Municipality elected it’s Mayor and Deputy Mayor along with members of the Finance Committee, some persons had questioning looks on their as to what transpired during the election of those persons. Newly Elected Mayor Patricia Chase-Green and Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan were elected to their posts unopposed. However, it was not ...

As plans continue for the construction of a school for autistic children, Minister of Education Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine on Saturday announced that a curriculum would be developed for that category of learners. Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited, at the same time, called on authorities to generate statistics on autism in the country. Speaking at the Promenade Gardens after a Republic Bank ...