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President Irfan Ali said the Guyana g9overnment has invited Expressions of Interest (EOI) for the establishment of a 30,000 barrel per day oil refinery in Region Six. The deadline for the submission to National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) is no later than 9 am on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, Government said it would only be providing the land ...

The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) of the Guyana Police Force is investigating allegations that a former Venezuelan military helicopter might have been brought into the country under shady circumstances, the Chairman of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Jared Shadick said Friday. “There is an allegation that the aircraft was irregularly brought into the country,” he told Demerara Waves ...

The eight suspended opposition parliamentarians would have to wait a bit longer to know whether the High Court can hear their request for them to return to the National Assembly pending the hearing and determination of the substantive case. The Full Court on Friday declined to consider an appeal of the High Court’s refusal to grant interim orders for the ...

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) on Thursday announced that it intends to invest GY$10  billion in its fibre-optic network over the next two years to serve the overwhelming majority of Guyanese. Chief Operating Officer of Home and Fixed Solutions, Eshwar Thakurdin said in two years an additional 80,000 homes would have access to the fibre-optic cable distributed Internet. “What ...

The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly- Guyana (IDPADA-G) on Thursday said it was mulling whether to take the government to court for refusing to transfer the full amount of money that was approved by the National Assembly in the 2022 National Budget to that organisation. In light of no response from government to requests for disbursements for ...

A company, which has purportedly taken over the rights to 143.10 acres of land aback Beterverwagting village, East Coast Demerara, refunded John Fernandes Limited (JFL) GY$20 million but the latter company said it has not seen any proof that the lands are privately-owned. In a statement issued on Tuesday, JFL said it returned the BV-Triumph Neighbourhood Council’s GY$20 million cheque ...

The Trevor Benn-led faction of the Guyana Public Service Cooperative Credit Union (GPSCCU) on Wednesday evening unveiled a 12-member slate of candidates for election to the board later this month and recommend that incumbent office holders are banned from holding office again. Mr Benn, who had been ousted several months ago by other board members from the post of Chairman ...

The construction of a more than GY$362.4 million solar farm in Mahdia would see more than 2,884 residents getting reliable and efficient electricity supply and reducing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from diesel-powered generators. Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA), Dr Mahender Sharma told Demerara Waves Online News that 686kWp Turn-key solar farm would save ...

Guyana has requested Facebook and Twitter to remove maps that depict the mineral and forest-rich Essequibo Region as part of Venezuela, and already one of the Social Media companies has asked for a meeting with Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud to discuss the concerns. Mr Persaud, in his letters of protest to Facebook and Twitter last week, cautioned that the propagation ...

Police said a former employee of Kaieteur News newspaper, who was arrested in connection with a more than GY$6 million armed robbery at his former workplace, gave his child-mother part of the loot and told her that it was a Superbet winning. Investigators said they were able to corroborate the story with the woman, Lorilee Garraway, who subsequently handed over ...