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Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman today defended the Government’s move to delay the release of oil blocks given to ExxonMobil in its concession offshore Guyana. Trotman told the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Natural Resources that the Government decided to keep that concession granted to Exxon in 1999 intact in the interest of national security. According to […]
Angry that his fishing colleague would not stop smoking cocaine in his presence, a 45-year-old fisherman of Rose Hall, grabbed a knife and repeatedly stabbed the colleague to the chest. The dead fisherman has been identified as 38-year-old, Davanand Jailall of Agriculture Road, East Coast Demerara. The name of his assailant has not been released. […]
The Guyana Police Force today released statistics related to crime and criminality in the country. The stats cover the first quarter of the year, from the month of January to April. According to the Police, there was a 26% decrease in cases of murder. The country recorded twenty-six murders in the first four months of […]
The Guyana Public Service Union is threatening legal action against the management of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission over its failure to lay over deducted union dues from its employees. The GPSU said it has not received any dues for its more than 300 members for some nine months and intends to go ahead […]
Justice Franklin Holder has set May 21st as the date when he will hand down his decision in the challenge being pursued by two former People’s Progressive Party/Civic government officials that the misconduct in public office charges against them are not proper. Former Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh and former head of the National Industrial and Commercial […]
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday declared that political activist and former treason accused, Mark Benschop should be thanking him and the PPP and going to church everyday and pray for the PPP because he was pardoned. It was under Jagdeo’s Presidency that Benschop was charged for sedition and treason. He was charged for treason […]
Attorney General, Senior Counsel Basil William today said he intends to return the contentious Cyber Crime Bill to Cabinet for it to be reviewed and for possible changes to be made before it is sent back to the National Assembly for debate and passage. The Bill has attracted widespread criticism for a sedition clause. […]
Police investigators and Child Care Services are probing the death of a three-year-old child in a Sophia shack. The toddler’s lifeless body was discovered around 9 o’ clock this morning by relatives in C Field Sophia. A relative of the child explained to News Source that late last night, the child was unwell and complained […]
Public Hearings at the Lindo Creek Commission of Inquiry wrapped up on Tuesday afternoon with the Commission refusing to place the only possible surviving witness, Dwayne Williams on the stand. Commission Chairman, Justice Donald Trotman in handing down his ruling, said he considered it unnecessary and inadvisable to place Williams on the stand. It is alleged […]
Three hundred and sixty-eight families will benefit from new house lots in November, following the completion of infrastructural developments in the Providence and Peter’s Hall communities on the East Bank of Demerara. The government has invested $545.8Million into the project. Agreements were signed today by several local contractors, who will carry out the preparatory works, […]
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