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A 25-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly robbing a hot dog vendor at gunpoint while she was returning to her Ankerville, Port Mourant home because she was unwell, police said. “He was told of the allegation, cautioned and arrested. He remains in custody,” the Guyana Police Force said. The law enforcement agency does not routinely release the names of ...

The House bipartisan Public Accounts Committee (PAC) could soon be empowered to summon persons to account for public funds if PAC Chairman, Jermaine Figueira gets sufficient support from the government. He asked that the PAC be deemed a legislative body, as defined in Legislative Bodies (Evidence) Act, Chapter 2 of 2012, with the power to summon persons to appear before ...

ExxonMobil Guyana hopes that the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel can produce more than the current output of 252,000 barrels per day, company President Alistair Routledge said Tuesday. He says ExxonMobil, the operator in the Stabroek Block will seize the opportunity of installing gas risers for the gas-to-shore energy pipeline to make some adjustments to that FPSO. “Part ...

An employee of Cevon’s Waste Management’s office in South Ruimveldt was shot and injured and the two masked bandits snatched salaries that were being paid to employees, police said Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at the company’s location on Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt. The actual robbery victim was identified as 31-year-old Ruth Chase, an employee ...

Several members of the Guyana Police Force are now under scrutiny after a video surfaced showing a number of them in a scuffle with a man at the Mackenzie Police Station. At least one of five uniformed policemen was seen kicking a man on the ground, in the video posted to the Joint Services WhatsApp media group by journalist Gordon ...

The Georgetown City Council on Sunday dismantled and carted off vendors’ stalls on the pavement around Demico House, Cornhill and Croal Streets and ordered sellers present to remove permanently, in compliance with a High Court order obtained by Banks DIH Limited. The City Engineer, Colvern Venture said City Police would be deployed to the Demico House area to ensure vendors ...

Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, Jermaine Figueira at the weekend disagreed with calls by New York-based Guyanese political activists for a boycott of certain businesses in Brooklyn that welcomed President Irfaan Ali. “Boycotting Guyanese businesses “we own” people in a foreign land is just plain stupid. How is that going to achieve anything good?,” said ...

The Institute of Private Enterprise Development Limited (IPED) announced on Saturday, through the release of its 2023 Annual Report, the disbursement of a total of 4,881 loans valued at $4.3 billion, which contributed to the creation and maintenance of 8,655 jobs, according to a statement.   According to Komal Samaroo, Chairman of IPED’s Board, “The strategic decision to focus the company’s ...

A company that was awarded a GY$717 million contract to build a pump station at A-Line, Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara now has to pay liquidated damages because the 12-month project has been stalled beyond its original completion date by 10 months, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) said Friday evening. “In the case of the A-Line Pump station, ...

Despite reassurances by top officials of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) that there was no need to worry about the removal of a computer processing unit (CPU) from the party’s membership department, its Central Executive Committee (CEC) decided that the device must be checked by an expert. “To provide further reassurance on the matter, the Party’s CEC decided that ...