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The Chief Executive Officer of Aaron’s Royality, Jayson Aaron, was arrested this morning by investigators from the Criminal Investigations Department of the Guyana Police Force. Aaron’s Royality is the company that is at the centre of the fuel import scandal at the state-owned, Guyana Oil Company (GUYOIL). Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has confirmed the arrest […]
Chief Justice Roxane George this morning dismissed the election petition case which was filed by two supporters of the Opposition APNU+AFC who were hoping for the results of the elections to be vitiated. The petition challenged the constitutionality of Order 60 which was created by GECOM and paved the way for the recount of votes […]
Police investigators and investigators from the Civil Aviation Authority are probing a security incident at an Air Services Aircraft at the Bartica airstrip. The incident is being described as an “unlawful interference” and not an attempted hijacking. Just after 9 o’clock this morning while the pilot of the Cessna aircraft was awaiting the arrival of […]
The Guyana Revenue Authority has seized the Panamanian registered fuel tanker which is carrying a shipment of heavy-fuel that is the centre of an ongoing fuel purchase scandal at the Guyana Oil Company. The tanker which carries the name “President”, has now been anchored at the Guyana Sugar terminal in Ruimveldt and remains under the […]
Police in Essequibo on Saturday arrested the lone suspect in the gunning down of Charlestown youth, Odingo Haywood. The wanted man, Lenroy Forde, was arrested by the Police while he was being transported in a boat to the mining community of Devil Home in the Cuyuni/Mazaruni region. A woman who was traveling with the murder […]
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has intervened to ease the tension between the state-owned sugar company, GuySuCo and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union. Sugar workers have been agitating for an increase in wages and salaries dating back to 2019. They have also been pressing for the sugar company to restart negotiations with the union […]
Four months after he was sent on 132 days of accumulative leave, Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels will not be returning to the Prison Service as its Head. Instead, the Ministry of Home Affairs has informed the Prison Director that he is being transferred to the Ministry of Home Affairs where he will take up […]
Almost a year after writing the CXC examinations in the middle of the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, two students from Queen’s College have emerged as the top performers at both the CSEC and CAPE levels. At the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency level, Zane Ramotar of Queens College emerged as the top CAPE student. Naomi […]
Guyana today recorded its highest single-day increase in new coronavirus cases since the pandemic was confirmed in the country year ago. The Ministry of Health this afternoon revealed that 214 new cases of the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours. All ten administrative regions have recorded new cases. Regions Four and Three […]
Despite the ExxonMobil company having a number of safety measures in place for workers heading to its offshore operations, 14 rotational workers based on the Noble Tom Madden drillship have tested positive for COVID-19. The Public and Government Affairs Advisor for ExxonMobil Guyana, Janelle Persaud confirmed the development to News Source this afternoon. Ms. Persaud […]
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