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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday announced that military officers would undergo training on territorial issues so that they could train other members of the Disciplined Services at border locations as well as school-age children living in communities there. “I believe strongly that they should be very knowledgeable. Part of their mandate should be teaching, doing special lectures and classes and ...

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said the Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force and other military chiefs across the Caribbean were assessing the worsening Haitian political crisis which is also on the agenda of regional leaders at their mid-term summit scheduled for next week in The Bahamas. “I’m sure the Chief-of-Staff and other Chiefs-of-Staff in the region are already engaged ...

Former Region Four Police Divisional Commander, Assistant Commissioner Edgar Thomas on Wednesday told the 2020 Elections Commission of Inquiry (COI) that at the height of a bomb scare at the District Four Returning Office that informed an Election Commissioner that he could no longer protect him because the heavily armed riot squad had entered that Office. Under cross-examination by Attorney-at-Law ...

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 ...

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh on Tuesday cancelled the temporary position of ‘Operations Coordinator’, amid a firm stance by the opposition-aligned Elections Commissioners who believed that they managed to convince her that she had no power to do so unilaterally. Her decision effectively means that  Information Technology Manager Aneal Giddings would no longer be ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Tuesday signaled that the country was once again moving closer towards the holding of Local Government Elections (LGE) after the March 13, 2023 date was aborted, but the opposition abstained from voting on the workplan. A highly placed source said LGE could be held during the second quarter – April to June- of this ...