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Police say Detector Operator, who works in the Chi-Chi backdam goldfields, has been robbed of $4.4 million by two gunmen who invaded his home at Nismes, West Bank Demerara. Police Force spokesman, Royston Andries did not disclose the name of the robbery victim, in what appears to be a new practice by the Guyana Police Force. The incident occurred at ...

Workers of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) have gotten a GYD$350 million bail out to pay salaries to staff and utility bills, the Ministry of Natural Resources said Monday. The Ministry of Natural Resources also said that before year-end workers would be paid their $25,000 bonus that had been announced in 2018 by the David Granger-led administration. Natural Resources Minister, ...

ExxonMobil has begun drilling its deepest well in Guyana to a depth of 8,000 metres of water in search of another oil field in the lucrative basin that has so far yielded several commercial discoveries. “We started drilling the Tanager-1 in the Kaieteur Block offshore Guyana about two weeks ago,” an ExxonMobil spokeswoman told News-Talk Radio Guyana 103.1 /Demerara Waves ...

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Chairman, Volda Lawrence was Monday granted GYD$100,000 bail on a fraud charge. She was not required to plea to the charge that states on March 5, 2020, she procured Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo to utter a forged Form 24 to the Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield in an attempt to defraud the State ...

The Chairman of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), Tabitha Sarabo-Halley has resigned, even as that party maintains that it was not consulted on who should have been the person selected to become Parliamentarian. Mrs. Sarabo-Halley confirmed Sunday night that she has resigned from the WPA and she does not intend to revisit her decision. Asked whether she intends to remain ...

The Guyana government has decided to scrap the prequalification process in a fresh round of request for proposals for a company to sell the country’s crude oil from the Liza Phase One well. The request was published in notices published in the daily newspapers by the Department of Energy of the Ministry of Natural Resources. Minister of Natural Resources , ...

The Lusignan Prison, where there have been untests including a recent devastating fire, is to be expanded as a priority project, authorities said. “High on the agenda will be the construction of additional areas so that social distancing can be practiced, and better supervision and management of the prisoners can be conducted,” the Guyana Prison Service said in a statement. ...

Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony says there are more COVID-19 positive cases now because the reason for testing has changed. Latest available figures show that there were 44 new cases in the last 36 hours. In all, 74 persons are hospitalised, They include 11 in the Intensive Care Unit. Another 383 are isolated at home under strict conditions. Seventy-nine ...

Several Caribbean and Guyanese lawyers have had their names drawn to the centre of a brewing controversy over huge amounts paid to them from Guyana’s treasury for several political cases and a Commission of Inquiry into the assassination of Working People’s Alliance (WPA) co-leader Dr. Walter Rodney. Attorney-General Anil Nandlall on Saturday disclosed “some” of the monies that have been ...

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member Christopher Jones on Saturday refuted claims by Attorney General Anil Nandlall that the opposition politician verbally abused police and loosed his dogs on them when the lawmen turned up to question him and seize several items that allegedly belong to the State. “My dog is always loose. When I went to the gate and ...