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Linden town councillor, Lennox Gasper has resigned from the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR),  saying that he reached his limit of tolerance with the party after this week’s performance by the opposition in the National Assembly a day earlier. “Not surprisingly and true to form, even as the country reflects this week on the dreadful events post March 2, 2020, ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday said A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change’s  (APNU+AFC) could offer political support to jointly address issues concerning the oil and gas sector at the parliamentary level. At the same time,  Dr. Ali  again rebuffed calls by Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon for consultations, saying that he would only meet if the former Minister of State ...

ExxonMobil on Thursday said the repaired flash gas compressor is due back shortly from Germany and would bring an end to weeks of flaring of large quantities of natural gas and at the same time that equipment would be used as a model for a new and upgraded version. “We will utilise these upgrades that we’ve made, install  the machine, ...

The Bank of Guyana, which regulates most local financial institutions, has frowned said Trinidad First Citizens Bank has not applied for a banking licence in Guyana although it has agreed to buy Scotiabank’s operations. “FCB does not have a licence to operate in Guyana. FCB has not submitted an application,” the Bank of Guyana said in a statement. The Central ...

President Irfaan Ali on  Thursday recommended a wide-ranging modernisation of the Guyana Police Force to enforce updated laws to improve safety and security of Guyanese. Outlining a series of recommendations in his address to the opening of the law enforcement agency’s 2021 Officers’ Conference, he said the force needs to examine its current situation and where it wants to be ...

 Reproduced from Prensa Latina Caracas, Mar 3 (Prensa Latina) The Venezuelan government on Wednesday described the accusations issued by Guyana regarding an alleged violation of its territorial sovereignty by air force fighter jets as inaccurate and false. According to a note released by the Guyanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Tuesday, March 2, two Sukhoi SU 30s from the Bolivarian ...

The Bulletwoood-1 well, the first on the Canje Block, has come up dry, one of the minor stakeholders has announced. Westmount Energy Limited reports that its investee company, JHIA Associates, confirms that oil was not found in commercial quantities. “The well encountered quality reservoirs but non-commercial hydrocarbons,” Investegate reported. ExxonMobil started exploratory drilling in January Bulletwood-1 was the first of ...

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon was Wednesday night tight-lipped about details concerning claims by opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change’s (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, Tabitha Sarabo-Halley that Public Affairs Minister Kwame Mc Coy struck her on her head with a cell phone. The only specific details about the alleged incident came in a statement from the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) ...

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said a joint probe with the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has so far found that the more than 300 pounds of cocaine found in shipping containers in Jamaica might have been placed there after the containers were examined by GRA. “It is suspected that the containers may have been contaminated after those security checks were ...

Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Hugh Todd on Wednesday summoned Venezuela’s Ambassador to Guyana, Luis Edgardo Diaz Monclus and handed him a protest note concerning the incursion of  this country’s airspace by Venezuelan fighter jets. The Foreign Affairs Ministry said Mr. Todd also expressed “Guyana’s condemnation of the recent violation of Guyana’s sovereignty” on Tuesday at about 1:20 PM when the ...