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Guyana’s public and private sector now has a large US$10 million dredge available in-country that would be used to clear the country’s major waterways to accommodate larger and more oil-sector related vessels and the eventual construction of a deep-water port, officials said Saturday. Already, President Irfaan Ali said based on current marine traffic in the Demerara River, government is aiming ...

ExxonMobil Sales and Supplies would be buying Guyana’s first entitlement of 1 million barrels of oil from the new Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel but that company would not be charging a marketing fee, the Ministry of Natural Resources said Saturday. “The ExxonMobil affiliate bid was the best on the pricing differential for the crude and this lift ...

Police have arrested two of three men who allegedly robbed a businessman of 12 gold chains worth GY$1.5 million on Friday night, that law enforcement agency said Saturday. Commander for Regional Division #3, Senior Superintendent Mahendra Siwnarine said 30-year old Ren Persaud of Crane Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara was robbed three identifiable males, two of whom were armed with ...

A prime suspect in an armed robbery of a vendor in Sophia, Greater Georgetown and seven other men stormed the home of the victim several hours after he reported the incident to police, investigators said Saturday. Twenty-seven year old Glenroy Griffith of ‘B’ Field, Sophia told police that at about 4:30 Friday afternoon, he and several other persons were liming ...

Guyana National Forensic Laboratory experts on Saturday ruled out the rock-like substances, found in a car with the bodies of two dead men on the Marriott Hotel parking lot, being narcotics but they suspect that it is sodium cyanide which is lethal in small quantities. The Guyana Police Force said it could not test for sodium cyanide and so the ...

Air Services Limited (ASL) said its Cessna Caravan 8RGAS suffered an engine fire upon shutdown at ASL ramp Ogle after returning from a Mathew’s Ridge flight Saturday morning at about 10:30. “The company’s emergency response team contained the fire and secured the aircraft. The pilot and 3 passengers safely exited the aircraft unharmed,” the domestic carrier said Guyana Civil Aviation ...

A mere four months after Dr. Richard Van West-Charles was appointed advisor to the Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton, he on Friday appeared set to pull out from that post over concerns about his leader’s poor communication and lack of consultation. “I have therefore concluded that until the role of, and the process by which ...

A Guyanese man, who is wanted in his native country for murder, has been arrested in neighbouring Suriname for having committing a sexual offence with an 11-year old girl, Surinamese police said Thursday. The Suriname Police Corps said a special team from the Youth Affairs Department on Wednesday, April 20 arrested 33-year-old Samuel Chase S. after a thorough investigation. Head ...

A US$300 million shorebase would be constructed at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Bank Demerara by a wholly-owned Guyanese company, and ExxonMobil on Friday inked a deal to lease the facility when it is finished in the fourth quarter of 2023. Speaking at the signing of the agreement between Vreed-en-Hoop Shorebase Inc (VEHSI) and ExxonMobil Guyana,  Director of NRG Holdings Inc; Nicholas Deygoo-Boyer ...

Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony on Friday said he has instructed that the contracts of more than 30 workers at the Linden Hospital Complex be renewed and that letters informing them that their services would no longer be required be rescinded. “This was action taken at the level of the Linden Hospital but when I learnt about it, we have ...