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A  man from Number 5 Village, West Coast Berbice has been arrested after 2.9 kilogrammes of cocaine were found in a bowl of fried rice in a suitcase he was carrying, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) alleged on Sunday. CANU said its agents intercepted the narcotic, with a street value of US$84,000.00 (approximately GY$17.2 million), on Friday while 28-year old ...

A more than 2o-year-old idea to generate electricity from wind for consumption by Guyanese could this year move to the installation of six turbines at Hope Beach and Chapman’s Grove, East Coast Demerara and their output would be supplemented with solar energy during periods of less wind, an official said. Project General Manager for the Hope Energy Development Project, Johan ...

The US$700-million dollar Amaila Falls hydropower station is to be built and operated under strict contractual and regulatory rules but no costs were provided for associated contracts, according to Project Leader Winston Brassington. “Like any large project, there is a lot of risk in these projects but most of these risks have been put to the developer,” adding that they ...

At least three seamen are feared dead after the trawler they were working on went down in the Atlantic sea off the coast of Guyana, one of the seamen’s wives said Sunday. Among those believed to have perished is 44-year old Harold Anthony Damon of Agricola, Greater Georgetown. Mrs. Tonszadel Beckles-Damon told Demerara Waves Online News/ News-Talk Radio Guyana 103.1 ...

A joint venture logistics company between Roraima Airways and the Trinidad-headquartered RAMPS Logistics have teamed up to form the majority Guyanese-owned Arapaima Logistics which has already sealed a deal to ship 10,000 coconuts to the United States (US), officials said Saturday. “It is one of our mandates to engage the agriculture sector. And let’s start bringing the agricultural products from ...

Police were Saturday searching for a 44-year old man who allegedly shot dead his 25-year old son-in-law in East La Penitence. Dead is  Leon Gittens of 118 Cowan Street, Kingston. The Guyana Police Force said the shooting incident occurred at midnight February 18, 2022 at Lot 211 Freeman Street, East La Penitence. “Investigations revealed that Gittens – who shared an ...

The Canadian company, Frontera, the major partner in the joint venture with CGX Energy, late Wednesday night announced that it would be spending more than US$100 million on the drilling of a second exploration well in the Corentyne Block. “Frontera and CGX anticipate spending $110-$130 million on Guyana exploration primarily to drill Wei-1, our second high impact exploration well in ...

The more than US$1 billion gas-to-shore project would not immediately produce ammonia and urea because the amount of available gas would be just sufficient to power the electricity generation plant that would be built at Wales, West Bank Demerara, the Ministry of Natural Resources said. ‘There is no commitment yet from Exxon to bring additional gas at this point in ...

The opposition Alliance For Change (AFC) and the Guyana government have disagreed over whether the administration should sell its share of oil directly or hire another crude marketer. Amid the AFC’s criticism that the government does not have the capacity to do so on its own and that Guyana would not save by cutting out the marketer, Minister of Natural ...

Barbados’ Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, on Tuesday proposed that new fossil fuel exporters like Guyana set aside at least 10 percent of their revenues into a fund for renewable energy, an idea that President Irfaan Ali said would require detailed study. “We believe that we should propose an accord among the new energy exporters to invest more than 10 percent ...