By News Source Guyana on February 13, 2023
News, Politics
ExxonMobil is expected to sell Guyana the natural gas that is being produced in the Stabroek Block in an effort to recover the cost associated with the construction of the pipeline needed to transport the fuel to the Natural Gas Power Plant at Wales. But Opposition Member of Parliament David Patterson said the arrangement not […]
By News Source Guyana on February 13, 2023
News, Politics
Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo has assured that the planned gas-to-energy project will go ahead, dismissing criticisms about the cost attached to the project, He said the criticisms are unjustified. The project has been receiving an avalanche of criticism from the Parliamentary Opposition and sections of society. Cost associated with the project, as well as an […]
By News Source Guyana on February 13, 2023
Elections, News, Politics
With plans for the long-awaited Local Government Elections back on track, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will commence its Claims and Objections exercise from today. In a statement over the weekend, the Elections Secretariat said the Claims and Objections exercise is integral to the preparation of the Registers of Voters for the conduct of elections […]
By News Source Guyana on February 13, 2023
News, Politics
The Guyana Fire Service has announced that it has confirmed that the fire which gutted the Parika market on Friday afternoon was caused by sparks from welding that was being done on a metal structure above the market. In a statement, the Fire Service said that based on its investigations, some of the residue from […]
By News Source Guyana on February 13, 2023
News, Politics
A Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara man who went back into his burning house to rescue a grandson, perished in a Sunday afternoon fire that has left his community in disbelief. The dead man has been identified as Rajendra Mohabir aka Slowie. According to eyewitnesses, fire engulfed the 7th Street, Windsor Forest house just before […]
By News Source Guyana on February 10, 2023
News, Politics
Scores of Parika vendors are counting their losses after an afternoon fire gutted a big section of the Parika market, completely destroying more than 50 stalls. Many of the vendors said they were unable to save anything as the fire quickly ripped through the market. It is suspected that the fire might have been ignited […]
By News Source Guyana on February 10, 2023
News, Politics
All seven members of the Teaching Service Commission have now been sworn in paving the way for the Commission to begin its work. The remaining two members took the oath of office today. The members of the Commission are Ms. Maydha Persaud, Avril Crawford, Doodmattie Singh, Lancelot Baptiste, Joan Ann Davis-Monkhouse, Shafiran Bhajan, Satti Jaisierisingh, […]
By News Source Guyana on February 10, 2023
News, Politics
Notwithstanding major developments in the Stabroek Block resulting in the discovery of billions of barrels in oil, ExxonMobil remains resolute in its position that the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) that it signed with Guyana should not be altered to reflect a higher royalty. There have been calls for a renegotiation of the contract, to […]
By News Source Guyana on February 10, 2023
News, Politics
A Guyanese man, who US law enforcement authorities consider to be “one of New York’s finch-smuggling kingpins”, has been sentenced to one year in jail after he was busted and found guilty of smuggling birds into the United States. The 62-year-old man, Insaf Ali was arrested in 2018 and 2021 at the JFK Airport while […]
By News Source Guyana on February 9, 2023
News, Politics
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall took the stand at the Elections Commission of Inquiry today and testified that in the lead up to the 2020 Elections, the then Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield had made a number of decisions that could have placed supporters of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) […]