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Bishop Juan Edghill has written to the General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Bharrat Jagdeo, asking that he not be considered for the post of Prime Ministerial Candidate for the PPP. Edghill who served as a Junior Finance Minister in the last PPP government (2011-2015) was among three nominees vying for the position. Although […]
Republic Bank Guyana is reversing a $500 charge that customers noticed being deducted from their accounts at the end of December. The Communications Department of the Bank explained to News Source today that the deduction was automatically processed and is now being reversed. Customers should notice the money being reimbursed to their accounts by the […]
Caribbean Airlines is not happy with a recent report out of the Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission of Guyana. The report called out the airline on its high prices for Guyanese passengers and claimed that CAL was charging those high prices to sustain some of its less performing routes. In response, Caribbean Airlines denied overpricing […]
The Tullow Oil company today announced another oil find in Guyana. In a statement, the company said the discovery was made at the Carapa-1 exploration well, which was drilled on the Kanuku licence offshore Guyana. The company has encountered approximately four metres of net oil pay based on preliminary interpretation. The announcement of the discovery […]
An argument between a rice farmer and the owner of a herd of goats turned tragic on Monday when the farmer was hit to the head. A Police report said the rice farmer, Chanderpaul Dhoman of Black Bush Polder, Corentyne was on his way home from his rice field when he noticed the owner of […]
Two women who were linked to the attempted smuggling of over 3 pounds of cocaine through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) were today sentenced to 3 years and 9 months jail each. They were also fined $3.9 million each. The women, 36-year-old, Albouystown resident Shellon Yolanda Barrow and 38-year-old, Norton Street resident, Krissy Latoya […]
The Travel + Leisure Magazine has listed Guyana among 50 Countries that must be visited in 2020. Travel + Leisure is a travel magazine based in New York City. It is published 12 times a year and boasts 4.8 million readers. In its latest edition, the magazine noted that Guyana is known as the land […]
Increased supply and strengthened monitoring mechanisms of water by the Guyana Water Incorporated has resulted in the agency increasing its revenue to over $5B for 2019. The announcement was made today by GWI’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr. Richard Van West Charles at the agency’s end-of-year press conference. It was revealed that the $5.1B […]
The Guyana Elections Commission today published the Revised Voters List with a total of 661, 378 eligible voters. The list also contains all of the 16,000 new registrants who were recorded during aborted house-to-house registration exercise. With the publishing of the list, voters can make checks to ensure that their names and addresses are correctly […]
A comprehensive study on air travel in Guyana by the Competition and Consumers Affairs Commission of Guyana has revealed what many Guyanese travelers have been complaining about for years, – that they have found themselves paying too much to travel on Caribbean Airlines from Guyana. The study found that while Caribbean Airlines enjoyed a monopoly […]
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