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President David Granger will not be attending the upcoming summit of Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders. “The Guyanese Head of State regrets his absence at the meeting but has opted to remain in Guyana to focus on domestic issues at this time,” the Ministry of the Presidency said Saturday. The Inter-sessional meeting is being hosted in Haiti from Monday, February 26 ...

About 40 persons were rendered homeless Friday – Republic Day- when fire ripped through several buildings at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara. Eyewitnesses said the fire started at a decades-old “Abiola Hotel” on Victoria Road just over the Plaisance Railway Embankment Road. An estimated 30 persons  lived at the hotel permanently. The blaze also spread to two buildings in the same yard ...

Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud, who has been on and off the job in recent months, will be going into retirement from next Wednesday. A farewell parade is scheduled in his honour on February 28, 2018  at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary. Persaud said he would be handing over responsibilities to Assistant Police Commissioner, David Ramnarine or the next ...

President David Granger Thursday midnight- on the eve of Guyana’s 48th Republic anniversary- ratcheted up talk of heightened border security and said he hoped international aid would be provided to the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to execute a number of tasks including territorial protection. “Guyana looks forward to the intensification of cooperation with friendly, foreign states, especially in building capacity ...

Reproduced from The Record KITCHENER — A man from Guyana deported from Canada 21 years ago after racking up several criminal convictions — including one for robbery — sneaked back into this country and returned to crime. Sheikh Ally, 47, was sentenced on Thursday to a little more than six years in prison, minus enhanced pretrial custody, afterpleading guilty to a slew ...

A senior official of the Guyana-based Caribbean Community (Caricom) headquarters was Thursday shot and robbed, shortly after leaving the East Coast Demerara branch of Republic Bank. This is said to be third time in recent weeks that customers leaving that bank’s branch at Triumph have been robbed of large sums of cash Shot and injured is Lionel Persaud, a senior ...

The Guyana government on Thursday said definitively that it would not be revising the Production Sharing Agreement with ExxonMobil, the same day that Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo questioned why government did not negotiate better contracts than those signed by former Presidents Janet Jagan and Donald Ramotar. The 2016 agreement between government and ExxonMobil contains a number of contentious clauses that ...

Chairman of Parliament’s Appointments Committee, Dr. George Norton on Thursday said the protracted delay in the appointment of new members of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) was due to efforts to ensure the commission was not unduly influenced by politics. “Both sides of the political divide were feverishly working towards it (Commissioners’ appointment) but yet you had to be careful ...

The way is now clear for the appointment of senior teachers for 2016 and 2017 as well as the appointment of junior teachers, with the appointment of the Teaching Service Commission, a senior official of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) said. Field Secretary of the GTU, Lance Baptiste’s comments came shortly after the swearing in of TSC members before President ...

OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS MAGAZINE,-TORONTO – Tullow Oil and Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas have identified various leads on their Orinduik block offshore Guyana that could contain more than 1 Bboe. The leads are drawn from studies of several thousand kilometers of 2D data, regional well logs and seismic correlations to ExxonMobil’s nearby Stabroek block wells. Some of the leads appear to be equivalent ...