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An investigation has been launched by the Police as well as the Child Care and Protection Agency, after a 14-year-old boy lost his life by drowning on Tuesday afternoon at the National Aquatic Centre at Lilliendaal. The dead youth has been identified as Joel Adams, who lived at the Sophia Care Centre, which is managed […]
The Guyana Police Force has announced that it has dismantled a criminal network with the arrest of three Chinese nationals who it is suspected, were linked to gold smuggling and money laundering. In a statement last evening, the Police explained that the three were arrested during an inter-agency intelligence operation at a city hotel. According […]
Maintaining that ExxonMobil Guyana abides by the laws and regulations of the country, the President and CEO of the company, Alistair Routledge today ruled out any issue of there being a conflict of interest emerging from ExxonMobil’s relationship with the Hughes, Fields and Stoby Law Firm, now that one of the partners in that firm, […]
The first meeting of the new Constitutional Reform Commission took place today at the Commission of Inquiry Secretariat on Middle Street in Georgetown. At the meeting, Minister of Governance Gail Teixeira was voted in as the Vice Chairperson of the Commission, which has retired Chancellor, Justice Carl Singh as its Chairman. Teixeira was nominated by […]
ExxonMobil Guyana today commissioned a multi-million-dollar capping stack as part of its oil spill response plan. The capping stack, which is an equipment that is placed over an oil wellhead in the event of a spill, was designed and built by Trendsetter Engineering. It is, however, owned by Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL) – an […]
In the early hours of this morning, the People’s Progressive Party Government used its slim majority in the National Assembly to pass an Amendment, which changes the composition of the University of Guyana’s Governing Council from 26 members to 32. There were strong objections from the Parliamentary Opposition, which encouraged the Government to have the […]
Noting that the governing People’s Progressive Party appears to be setting the stage to call early General and Regional Elections, recently elected Leader of the Alliance For Change, Nigel Hughes, believes it will not be feasible to hold National Elections, unless and until the national census results are published and there is a clean voters […]
A total of 1,491 contracts amounting to $181.794 Billion were awarded by the National Procurement and Tender Administration over a period of one year – from July 8, 2022 to July 7, 2023. Additionally, 67 contracts totaling US$319.103M were issued in United States Dollars. This is according to a report of the Public Procurement Commission […]
The National Assembly on Monday passed the Fugitive Amendment Bill, with several changes that seek to increase cooperation between Guyana and other countries on the question of extradition. In introducing the Bill to the House, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, noted that the Amendments are timely and necessary to combat organized […]
Police investigators have arrested a suspect as they continue to probe the murder of the Venezuelan woman, whose lifeless body was discovered along the roadway in the New Diamond Housing Development with a bullet wound to the head on Sunday. The woman has since been identified as Evelyn Alfonzo Alves. She was 23-years-old and was […]
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