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ExxonMobil will next year have to relinquish 20 percent of the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana and that area would eventually be auctioned, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said on December 9. “Exxon has this huge area and so next year I think they have to relinquish 20 percent of that,” he told a news conference.  ExxonMobil is the operator in the ...

President Irfaan Ali Thursday night encouraged overseas-based Guyanese and local investors to pool their monies to invest in condominiums in upscale areas. “We have a lot of liquidity that exists in the Diaspora. This is a challenge to the Diaspora. I challenge you today. You can’t do it individually, come together,” he said. Addressing the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and ...

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Timothy Tucker on Thursday appealed t0 government to scrap the excise tax on new vehicles to allow ordinary Guyanese and the country as a whole to benefit in several ways. While acknowledging that Guyana’s roads are congested, the Chamber said the removal of the excise tax would see Guyanese having ...

Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine and opposition parliamentarian Sherod Duncan were Thursday morning granted GY$200,000 bail each on race-related charges and they were gagged from saying anything publicly about the cases, their defence lawyer Roysdale Forde said. Mr Narine was charged with the offence of obstructing traffic in relation to placing a wooden pallet on New Market Street. Mr Narine and ...

The Guyana Police Force on Thursday said a request has been dispatched to the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) for more information on the Nigerian man, who staged a daring knife and gun attack on presidential guards at State House that resulted in him being shot and injured. Police identified the man as 35-year old Bethel Ikenna Chimezie and said ...

A man, who demanded to see President Irfaan Ali, stabbed a policeman several times to his neck, grabbed a lawman’s pistol and opened fire several times, was shot and injured. No one has been reported killed. The suspect and the policeman are hospitalised in a stable condition. Carmichael Street and New Narket Streets near State House were cordoned off. Traffic ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton is hoping that the arrest and charge of City Mayor Ubraj Narine and opposition parliamentarian Sherod Duncan will galvanise supporters against what he terms political harassment by the government but the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) said he is stoking racism. The Opposition condemns the actions of the PPP regime and warns them that they ...

Former Staff Sergeant Ubraj Narine was disembodied from the Guyana National Rerserve of the Guyana Defence Force, with effect from Tuesday December 13, 2022 for conduct ‘ Unbecoming of a soldier’ because of his utterances on Monday night in his capacity as Mayor of Georgetown.  “Mr Narine on Monday December 12, 2022, was engaged in a civil protest action during ...

Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine and Alliance For Change General Secretary Sherod Duncan were Wednesday afternoon arrested and ordered to go to Brickdam Police Station, triggering a large converging of supporters including vendors in City Hall’s compound. Present with him were Attorneys-at-Law Roysdale Forde and Darren Wade. Mr Forde confirmed that the arrest of the duo had to do with the ...

Teachers in Guyana will get increased salaries, but President Irfaan Ali could not say how soon. “The day for teachers will come. As I said, it’s progressive. It’s  a holistic approach. We are dealing with the greatest anomalies in the system first,” he said. He cited nurses who were working for GY$98,000 would from next month be earning GY$160,000. Pressed ...