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Guyanese drug convict Barry Dataram remains in custody in the United States on drug trafficking charges dating back to more than a decade ago. Dataram, who was arrested back in January after stepping off a flight at the JFK Airport, is cooperating with US prosecutors and is hoping to strike a plea deal, according to […]
Guyana’s newest Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel, Prosperity, arrived in Guyana on Monday morning. The vessel is joining the oil production facilities on the Payara field, located in the Stabroek block, offshore Guyana. Payara is the third project in the Stabroek Block. The new vessel is expected to be working in the local oil […]
Police investigators are probing the stabbing death of a 26-year-old fisherman at Anna Catherina on the West Coast of Demerara. The dead man has been identified as Munaff Azeem. The incident took place on Monday morning. According to reports, Azeem was beaten and stabbed by a group of fishermen during a row over fishing equipment […]
Local company, Robin Hollow Blocks has become the latest company to be certified by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards under its Product Certification Programme. The GNBS has explained that Robin Hollow Blocks has attained certification to manufacture four (4) and six (6) inch blocks which meet the requirements of the National Standard GYS 215:2018 […]
Within 24hrs, two men were killed in two separate fires in the country. The Guyana Fire Service in a statement today said 75-year-old Sammy Munian lost his life on Wednesday afternoon when a fire engulfed his Fairfield, Mahaicony home. An investigation by the Fire Service said, a fire had been set to a pile of […]
Opposition parties, APNU and AFC today called for the release of the Cost Recovery Audit, contending that the two-year wait over claims that the Audit Firm – IHS Markit – did not comply with international best practices, is unacceptable. The Final Cost Recovery Audit, produced and submitted by IHS Markit for the period 1999-2017, found […]
The owner of the daycare centre in Ogle, where 7-month-old Oriya Gravesande died, was today charged and remanded to jail over the death of the baby girl. Flanked by the Police and her Attorneys, the Little Learners Daycare owner, Denise Benn made her way into the Courtroom of Magistrate Alisha George, where the manslaughter charge […]
The Government and the Opposition have both welcomed the latest ruling from the International Court, which rejected Venezuela’s objections to the case. Moments after Venezuela’s objections were thrown out, President Irfaan Ali, said Guyana remains confident that its longstanding international boundary with Venezuela will be confirmed by the Court. “Guyana has always been fully committed […]
The International Court of Justice today rejected and dismissed Venezuela’s objections to Guyana’s case before the Court, paving the way for the substantive case to move forward. The Court found that Venezuela’s application had no legal basis. Venezuela wanted the Court not to entertain Guyana’s substantive application on several grounds, one of which is that […]
A 21-year-old businessman who was arrested on Monday with an unlicensed firearm and unlicensed ammunition, appeared in Court today to face illesgal possession charges. The businessman, Joshua Taylor from South Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara, appeared in Court this morning and denied the allegations leveled against him that he was found to be in possession of […]
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