By News Source Guyana on July 24, 2018
Crime, News
Police investigators are convinced that the five armed men who were shot dead this morning during an armed confrontation with Police ranks, were after a safe in the house that they were nabbed trying to invade. The dead men have been identified as Timothy St. Hill, Levi Braithwaite, Andrew Daly, Ian Forde and Jermaine Doobay. Timothy […]
By News Source Guyana on July 24, 2018
News
One week after his father was set free of a cocaine trafficking charge in an unrelated case, the son of former murder and cocaine trafficking accused Andre “Zipper” Gomes learnt that he would be spending the next four years and six months in jail for cocaine trafficking. 33-year-old, Mark Gomes was slapped with the sentence […]
By News Source Guyana on July 24, 2018
Crime, News
Three of the five men killed during a stand-off with Police this morning as they invaded a Lilliendaal home have been identified. Those identified so far are 38-yrs-old Timothy St.Hill of Diamond Housing Scheme, 39-year-old Adrian Dally, who was a mason of West Minister and 31-year-old Levi Braithwaite, who was a taxi driver from the […]
By News Source Guyana on July 24, 2018
Crime, News
Five gunmen were shot dead by the Police during an early morning stand-off at Lilliendaal along the East Coast Demerara. According to Crime Chief Paul Williams,the Guyana Police received an emergency call just around 3:30 this morning that there was a break in at a home in the Lilliendaal area. He said Police responded immediately […]
By News Source Guyana on July 23, 2018
News, Politics
Guyanese are being encouraged to qualify themselves in preparation for oil production so that they can work in the sector and take advantage of the benefits which are also open to foreigners. Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge said on Monday that Guyanese stand a chance of being overlooked for jobs in the sector if they do not […]
By News Source Guyana on July 23, 2018
News, Politics
Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge on Monday said Venezuela’s relentless claim to this country’s Essequibo region and its accompanying oil rich maritime space was also stalling maritime boundary talks with other neighboring countries with which Guyana share maritime boundaries. Greenidge is confident, however, that much of the issues related to resolving maritime boundaries […]
By News Source Guyana on July 23, 2018
News, Politics
In wake of today’s announcement by ExxonMobil that the estimate for the Stabroek Block has been increased to 4 billion barrels of oil, former Natural Resources Minister Robert Persaud is urging that there be “less bickering [and] finger pointing” ahead of production. Persaud shared this sentiment in a Facebook post earlier today, where he said […]
By News Source Guyana on July 23, 2018
News, Politics
IRVING, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The ExxonMobil oil company today announced that it has increased its estimate of the discovered recoverable resources for the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana to more than 4 billion oil-equivalent barrels and has advanced its evaluation to support a third phase of development and consideration of two additional phases. The increase follows completion of testing […]
By News Source Guyana on July 21, 2018
Crime, News
A Port Kaituma man who savagely beat his wife to death because he saw her dancing with another man, appeared in Court on Friday and was remanded to jail for the woman’s murder. 36-year-old Tyron James was not required to enter a plea to the indictable murder charge when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ […]
By News Source Guyana on July 21, 2018
News, Politics
-By Ravin Singh- Guyana’s present value of external debt-to-GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is projected to decline to 8 percent over the medium-term, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said in its 2018 country report. Although the report was released in May of this year, the Debt Sustainability Analysis was added to the report and published […]