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A woman on Saturday found the skeletal remains of a man on a plot of land where she has been living for the past 16 years, the Guyana Police Force said. The woman summoned the police after  finding the remains in a clump of bushes about 200 yards from the house in which she lives at Third Phase, WISROC Squatting ...

As Guyana prepares to import 20,000 Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines and explore importing from other sources, President Irfaan Ali said his country would ensure the jabs are certified and safe. “I want you to feel confident; indeed feel certain that when the vaccines arrive and we begin to distribute them, they will have the full approval of the World Health Organisation ...

President Irfaan Ali on Saturday said Guyana was ready to hold bilateral talks with Venezuela on matters other than the border controversy, but on the condition that the two Guyanese-registered fishing vessels and crew members must be released immediately. “Such discussions while welcomed, especially if the UN Secretary-General wishes to play a good offices role, will have to be preceded ...

Two persons, who live in South Ruimveldt, are wanted in connection with the seizure of a quantity of cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport. The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) says Edinho Lewis of 25 Shopping Plaza, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown and Chelsea Collins of 10 David Rose Street, South Ruimveldt are wanted for questioning. CANU alleges that 534 grammes of ...

A prime suspect in a robbery and three counts of wounding  was early this morning shot dead after he allegedly attacked police with a cutlass. Dead is 22-year old Sherwin Filley also known as Red Ants and a resident of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara. Police say he was shot in his eye after he attacked them with a cutlass. He ...

ExxonMobil  Friday afternoon said it was forced to increase the amount of gas that it is flaring from the Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel named Liza Destiny. The company says this is due to a technical problem with the seal on the gas compressor aboard the vessel anchored more than 100 miles off the coast of Guyana. ExxonMobil says ...

Guyana’s Foreign Minister Hugh Todd on Thursday said there has been increased Venezuelan military presence in the Atlantic sea offshore Essequibo following the unilateral delimitation of the maritime boundary up to the eastern bank of the Essequibo River. “Following the announcement of President [Nicolás] Maduro’s Decree of 7 January 2021, there was increased activity in Guyana’s maritime space by Venezuelan ...

Venezuela is coming under mounting international pressure to release two Guyanese fishing vessels and 11 crew members that were intercepted by the Venezuelan Navy in Atlantic waters that both neighbouring South American nations claim as theirs. The United States (US), the Organisation of American States (OAS) and the 15-nation Caribbean Community called separately for the crew and vessels, Lady Nayera ...

Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the Organisation of American States (OAS), Ambassador Riyad Insanally on Wednesday openly slammed Venezuela’s opposition-aligned special representative to that Western Hemispheric body, Gustavo Tarre Briceño on Guyana’s sovereign rights to the Essequibo Region and the Atlantic marine space. “Mr. Tarre seems to be taking the side of the bellicose Maduro regime, implying the same threats to ...

The Organisation of American States (OAS) on Wednesday called on Venezuela to safely release the 11 Guyanese crew members and two fishing boats, even as that Western Hemispheric organisation backed Guyana’s position that the vessels were in Guyana’s waters when the Venezuelan Navy intercepted them one week ago. “The General Secretariat demands that the Guyanese citizens are released promptly and ...