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The Government will pay US oil giant ExxonMobil US$55M per annum for 20 years for the gas to shore pipeline. That revelation was made by the Head of the Gas-to-Energy Project, Winston Brassington. While maintaining that the gas, which will be supplied by Exxon through the pipeline to the power plant at Wales, will be […]
Opposition and PNC Leader Aubrey Norton has questioned the decision of the Guyana Police Force to issue wanted bulletins for 12 East Coast Demerara men under the Terrorism Act, over their alleged roles in a protest in June 2022 that saw damage to property and looting of stalls in the Mon Repos area. Speaking at […]
The 44th Regular Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government got underway last evening in Nassau, Bahamas, and even as regional leaders are meeting to discuss the progress made since their last meeting, a number of new issues, as well as old ones are confronting the region. Central among those issues is the instability in Haiti, […]
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has lashed out at the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) over claims that the Government violated the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) standards when it failed to adequately consult Indigenous Leaders on the sale of carbon credits. In a statement on Tuesday, APA said the Government summoned Indigenous Leaders to the […]
Indigenous communities in Guyana will this year receive a total of $4.725 Billion from the sale of Carbon Credits to the Hess Corporation. Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo made the announcement today as he met with Indigenous Leaders from more than 240 villages at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre. The $4.725B represents 15% of the sale […]
Guyana’s Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat has assured potential investors for the energy sector that the country’s local content laws are not to discourage them from coming to Guyana, but rather the laws are there to streamline how business is conducted in the country and to ensure that Guyanese businesses are given an equal […]
More than seven months after protests against a Police shooting became violent and saw persons and their stalls being attacked at Mon Repos on the East Coast of Demerara, the Guyana Police Force has issued wanted bulletins for 12 suspects. The Police Force said the 12 are wanted for acts of terrorism which occurred on […]
Having already protested an American Airlines position to have senior government officials make their way to the counter check-in area for their departure flights instead of an agent visiting the VIP section of the Cheddi Jagan Airport, the Government of Guyana now intends to write American Airlines over its treatment of two visiting Caribbean Prime […]
The President of ExxonMobil Upstream Oil and Gas Company, Liam Mallon has indicated that the U.S oil giant is looking to ramp up production in Guyana to 400,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) soon, with a plan to take production further up to 600,000 barrels per day by the end of the year. Currently, […]
In updating the International Energy Conference on developments within the local Petroleum Sector, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo announced that the Government has decided against using the remaining blocks to form a National Oil and Gas Company, and that is due to lack of funding. Instead, the Government will be putting the 14 blocks up for […]
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