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The opposition People’s National Congress Reform/A Partnership for National Unity (PNCR/APNU) on Wednesday unveiled plans to ask ExxonMobil to agree to change the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) as well as set up an inspector general’s office (IGO) to go after corruption in the oil and gas sector. “Considering the vastly changed conditions since the signing of the 2016 Stabroek ...

Former Secretary-General of the British Commonwealth and a former Foreign Affairs Minister, and Attorney General of Guyana, Sir Shridath Ramphal, has died at the age of 95. Sir Shridath was also one of the leading lawyers in the Guyana-Venezuela border dispute before the International Court of Justice. The following announcement was made by his son-in-law, Sir Ronald Sanders. The family ...

The Ministry of Natural Resources has decided to establish a Compliance Division to police the scaling back of the use of mercury and overall verify that miners and loggers are complying with Guyana’s laws and regulations. “The compliance unit really is going to be attached to the ministry so they are going to be going out on behalf of the ...

by Telesha Vidya Ramnarine Even as fire fighters were making significant progress in extinguishing a three-week old blaze at the Haags-Bosch Landfill, a heated exchange arose Monday at City Hall about why Public Health Officers were not included in a meeting with Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan about the garbage disposal facility. Fire Chief, Marlon Gentle told Demerara Waves Online News ...