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Public Works Minister Juan Edghill on Monday said the engines of the new North-West District (NWD) vessel, MV Ma Lisha, sucked in silt while departing Georgetown on Thursday at low tide resulting in a delayed arrival at Kumaka, in response to claims that the vessel encountered engine trouble during its maiden voyage. “There was no engine failure. All that happened- ...

Well-known Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes on Sunday recommended meaningful involvement of Guyanese representatives in political decision-making through supermajorities in order to force the opposition and government to reach consensus. Mr Hughes, who recently made a presentation to the United Nations Permanent forum on people of African descent on behalf of the non-governmental International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G), ...

A 22-year old resident if Plaisance, East Coast Demerara was Monday arraigned for the murder of well-known Guyanese educator, Olato Sam. Police said Joshua Martin Archer called ‘Joshie’, a labourer of Robert Road, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, was arrested on August 5, 2023, by Deputy Superintendent Dufu. Archer was charged on August 14, 2023, for murder committed on Olato Sam. The ...

Former Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Justice James Patterson died Saturday night,  a relative confirmed. He was 89 years old. A relative told Dmerara Waves Online News that Justice Patterson passed away at his residence in Century Palm, Durban Park, Georgetown. The relative said that in recent months Mr Patterson had been battling some health issues which had become ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Saturday advised Afro-Guyanese to get involved in business and urged communities to support them so that they can continue to thrive. He stressed the critical importance of creating a business class in each village in which villagers buy and sell from each other to generate wealth within. “The African Guyanese needs to focus on business. ...

High-tech Ghanaian and Guyanese companies have laid the groundwork through a joint venture to provide the Guyana government with the capacity to provide real-time monitoring of oil production and air and sea pollution among other aspects of operations, a senior official said Saturday. West Coast Gas Ghana, a leading technologies player in the monitoring and nomination services in the oil ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday ruled out a further extension beyond the September 12, 2023 deadline for bidding for 14 oil blocks offshore Guyana, saying that the regulatory framework was now in place to facilitate the process. In an interaction with participants at a Ghana Chamber of Commerce Guyana conference on local content, he said now that government has ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has said his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration has renegotiated aspects of the oil production deal with ExxonMobil through changes in licenses for the development of other wells, despite iron-clad provisions of the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) for the entire Stabroek Block. “We have reformed the entire licensing regime,” he said during a debate on ...

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) on Thursday said there has been a drop in gold declarations from small and medium scale miners due to a shift of workers from mining to construction and oil and gas, depletion of reserves near roads and raiding of lands worsened by poor enforcement. “Workers have been opting out of the sector ...

The burning to death of 20 children in the Mahdia Secondary School’s girls dormitory and an upsurge in gun crimes are responsible for a so far 14.8 percent rise in serious crimes for 2023 compared to a slump during  the past two years, Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn said Wednesday night. “At the moment, even though we have a target ...