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Extremely high spring-tide is badly affecting a number of areas across the country in and out of Guyana’s capital city, Georgetown. Aback the Caribbean’s largest public market, Stabroek Market, was inundated by water from the Demerara River.  The vendors in other areas of Water Street in the vicinity of Bounty Supermarket, old JP Santos and opposite Republic Bank were not ...

Exxon Mobil on Thursday told the Guyana government that it would begin exploratory drilling in an offshore concession in March. Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud’s ogfice said he wss updated on activities that the company will undertake over the next few weeks following a meeting with Mr. Chuck Calavan, ExxonMobil Vice President of US and Latin ...

Guyana’s President Donald Ramotar congratulated St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister-elect, Timothy Harris whose opposition alliance swept to power in Monday’s general election.  Harris and several others dislodged Dr. Denzil Douglas and his St. Kitts Nevis Labour Party from office for the first time in 20 years. Ramotar is leading his People’s Progressive Party Civic against an opposition alliance in ...

Brazilian police have arrested and charged four persons, including two Guyanese, with trafficking in 25 kilogrammes of marijuana that were seized in the neighbouring Portuguese-speaking republic  They are former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier Eric Eldon Bobb, 34, Guyanese Clive Lloyd King, 38, Brazilian José Rodrigues Montague, 58, and Marlene Magdalene Romao, 39, a teacher at the Arapaima Primary School. ...

The owner of a vulcanizing shop was shot dead at his business premises and another man was shot and injured, according to well-placed sources. The incident occurred shortly before 11 PM at the vulcanizing shop located on South Road, Georgetown between Cummings and Light Streets. Dead is  41-year old Randolph “Rat” Singh of 207 Charlotte Street , Bourda, Georgetown. Sources ...

The first classified website of its kind within the Caribbean, www.gylist.com, will be officially launched in Guyana on Thursday 19, FEB, 2015, by the enterprising Renik Evelyn. According to Mr. Evelyn, who is the founder and managing director of the site, Gylist.com was designed to give users the opportunity to post FREE 30-day listings with a maximum of ten digital ...

A two-horse race at the May 11, 2015 general and regional elections is expected to see the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) returning to office for a sixth straight term, according to government’s Chief Spokesman, Dr. Roger Luncheon. Luncheon, who is also an Executive Committee member of the PPP, welcomed the coalition between the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-dominated ...

Guyana’s upcoming general and regional elections are expected to cost more than GUY$2 billion, according to Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield. He told reporters after a news conference that the cost to hold the May 11, 2015 poll would be around GUY$2.4 billion, about the same cost of that of the November 2011 election. Lowenfield said the Guyana Elections Commission ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is considering ways of preventing the voters list from being bloated with the names of dead persons and migrants, apart from conducting a new house-to-house registration in a few years from now. GECOM Chairman, Dr. Steve Surujbally told a news conference that these include taking steps to use death announcements in the newspapers, radio and ...

Teleperformance on Tuesday announced that it is opening a customer care facility in Georgetown, Guyana later this April.  Teleperformance says its new multichannel contact center will enhance its ability to provide high-quality customer care, sales, and technical support solutions to its clients in English from a nearshore location. The custom-built campus will be located in the heart of downtown, near Georgetown’s historic ...