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Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paramaribo, Suriname, storming the National Assembly building and looting businesses as pressure mounted on the government in the wake of rising prices for fuel and general cost of living. The protesters are demanding that President Chandrikapersad Santokhi and Vice President Ronnie Brunswijk resign because they have presided over an International Monetary Fund ...

Guyanese in the 70 neighbourhoods and 10 towns will go to the polls on June 12 to elect new councillors, despite opposition concerns that a several constituency boundaries have been changed to give the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) an advantage. Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall  has written to the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Retired Justice Claudette Singh, ...

Hours after Guyanese police issued wanted bulletins for 12 persons accused of terrorism at the Mon Repos market last year during a protest against a police killing, Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Wednesday night said they were “innocent” and he vowed to resist prosecutions. In relating the police action to the gathering, he said they were “innocent people who participated ...

The US$1.7 billion gas-to-shore project, including the natural gas-fired power plant and natural gas liquids plant, is projected to save Guyana US$500 million annually after paying ExxonMobil US$55 million each year for the pipeline, Project Lead Winston Brassington said Wednesday. “Exxon projects that the quality of the gas, which is a very high quality gas- rich gas, will remain stable ...

Indigenous communities totalling 241 were Wednesday informed that they would each receive millions of dollars now that Guyana has received the first installment of US$75 million from American oil company, Hess Corporation, for the sale of forest carbon credits, but they first have to craft approved development plans. Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, addressing Toshaos (Amerindian village chiefs) at the Arthur ...

The Guyana government on Wednesday publicly protested American Airlines’ shabby treatment of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Keith Rowley and the St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves as they prepared to depart Guyana earlier in the day. The Foreign Affairs Ministry accused American Airlines of refusing to allow the Prime Ministers’ check-in through ...

Guyanese police on Wednesday issued a wanted bulletin for at least 12 persons for terrorism allegedly unleashed on stallholders and other persons at the Mon Repos market area almost one year ago by persons who had marched from Golden Grove to protest the police killing of a youth from their village. “Terror and mayhem were unleashed on persons on the ...

Guyana has decided to donate US$100,000 to the global humanitarian response to earthquake relief efforts in Türkiye and Syria where more than 40,000 persons were confirmed dead, President Irfaan Ali said Tuesday. He said Cabinet responded favourably to the appeal that was made through the United Nations (UN) channel. “We have decided on US$50,000 each- US$50,000 for Turkiye, US$50,000 for ...

President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday said the Guyana government has been asked to help revive the cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT (1974) Limited but no decision has been made. Acknowledging that LIAT is an “important” aspect of regional transportation, he said the governments of Antigua and Barbuda, and St Vincent and the Grenadines have been talking with the Guyana government about ...

ExxonMobil, the operator in the Stabroek Block, has increased production by 40,000 barrels per day (bpd) from Liza 1 and Liza 2 and is targeting 400,000 bpd in the coming months, ExxonMobil’s Vice President (Upstream) Liam Mallon  said on Tuesday. Giving a production update at the Guyana Energy Conference being held from February 14 to 17 at the Marriott Hotel, ...