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Managing Director of Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), Dr. Richard Van West-Charles says the  new fixed charge that consumers will have to pay will be spent improving the company’s aged distribution network system. This follows an announcement by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) that it has approved increases in rates and tariffs for GWI. Dr. Van West-Charles explained that since 2013, ...

A three-hour search of the Lusignan Prison, East Coast Demerara has uncovered, among other items, a marijuana plant. “One small cannabis plant and a quantity of ziplock bags,” were among the listed prohibited items found at the jail. This suggests that marijuana is being grown at that penitentiary. Prior to the destruction of the Georgetown Prison by fire, a raid ...

A Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) Inspector is dead and his colleague injured in a vehicular accident on the Essequibo Coast. Dead is Shankar Ram, 23, a Guyana Energy Agency Inspector of lot 14 Mon Repos Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara. The female has been identified as 23-year-old Donitta Ramlackhan of Enmore, East Coast Demerara. She is also an Inspector attached ...

Port of Spain, Trinidad. The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ordered that the appellant, Ms.  Rajpattie Thakur in her capacity as the executrix of the will of her mother, Mrs. Dolarie Thakur, be declared the rightful owner of land at Plantation Mon Desir, Canal No. 2 West Bank Demerara in Guyana. The disputed land had been used as a farm ...

Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) today announced an eighth oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Longtail-1 exploration well, creating the potential for additional resource development in the southeast area of the Stabroek Block. The well encountered approximately 256 feet (78 meters) of high-quality, oil-bearing sandstone reservoir. The well was safely drilled to 18,057 feet (5,504 meters) depth in 6,365 feet (1,940 ...

Former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officer, Oliver Hinckson died Wednesday morning after a prolonged illness, close relatives and friends He was 74 years old. Due to illness, he abandoned reading for a Doctorate at the University of the West Indies. Hinckson, a British-trained soldier, was feared by the People’s National Congress and People’s Progressive Party- led administrations that he had ...

Venezuela cannot accept and reject the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in settling the border controversy with Guyana, a legal and security expert said Tuesday. “There is an interesting and powerful nuance – because the Geneva Agreement named the ICJ as a means of resolution of the controversy, Venezuela has, for all intents and purposes, recognised and ...

Armed bandits early Tuesday morning invaded a couple’s home and tied up a pensioner before they loaded his car with several items, all valued GY$3,540,000, and fled the scene, police sources said. The incident occurred at about 1:45 AM at the Kuru-Kuru, Soesdyke-Linden Highway residence of 61-year Frederick Mc David and his 57-year old wife, Denise Mc David. Mrs. Mc ...

Bandits early Tuesday morning invaded a home at Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo where they beat a man, raped his wife and threatened to kill their screaming two-year old son, police and other sources said. Two prime suspects have since been arrested, after they fled to further into Zeelugt. One of the perpetrators is still at large. The 34 year old ...

(From Mining Journal) Alicanto Minerals will go it alone at the Arakaka gold project in Guyana after Barrick Gold withdrew from a joint venture. Barrick had spent US$7.1 million on exploration at the project, just shy of the $8 million it was required to spend to earn 65% under a March 2016 earn-in agreement. Alicanto will retain 100% of the ...