By News Source Guyana on June 15, 2022
News, Politics
ExxonMobil Guyana has recorded its first year of profits after operating in the country for more than two decades. The company announced today that in 2021, it recorded $132 Billion in profits following earnings of $254 Billion. Guyana started oil production in 2019 after the first discovery was made in 2015. Providing an insight into […]
By News Source Guyana on June 15, 2022
News, Politics
After the government came under yet another stinging rebuke from top US Congressman Hackeem Jeffries over alleged acts of racism, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo responded today and said the US Congressman is clearly misinformed on the situation in Guyana. Over the weekend, Congressman Jeffries who chairs the Democratic Caucus for the US House of Representatives […]
By News Source Guyana on June 15, 2022
Crime, News, Politics
Former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, retired Assistant Commissioner of Police Paul Slowe, today added his voice to the controversy surrounding the Police shooting death of Golden Grove Youth Quindon Bacchus. Bacchus was gunned down by a Special Branch rank last Friday in Haslington. During his online talk show today, Mr. Slowe said the […]
By News Source Guyana on June 15, 2022
News, Politics
President Irfaan Ali took his “One Guyana” plan to the Region 7 town of Bartica today where he met with residents and sought to address some of the concerns and challenges being faced by them. Before meeting with residents of the community, the President stopped at a number of schools and listened to some of […]
By News Source Guyana on June 15, 2022
News, Politics
Managers at the state-owned sugar company Guysuco, have been warned by President Irfaan Ali that it cannot be business as usual with the management of the industry as it continues to incur major financial losses while production remains low. The Government has been pumping billions of dollars into the cash-strapped sugar company but has not […]
By News Source Guyana on June 14, 2022
News, Politics
Squatters of Cane View in the East Bank Demerara community of Mocha are calling on the Housing Ministry to halt its plans to demolish their homes which are close to the area where the new Eccles to Great Diamond Four-lane Highway is being built. Some 35 homes are to be removed from the area. The […]
By News Source Guyana on June 14, 2022
News, Politics
United States Congressman, Hakeem Jeffries who chairs the Democratic Caucus for the US House of Representatives has once again called out the Guyana Government over what he sees as the ‘mistreatment’ of a certain section of the Guyanese population. Delivering remarks at the Guyana Day Church Service in New York this past weekend, Congressman Jeffries […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2022
News, Politics
Local businessman, Tamesh Jagmohan through his Attorney has filed a criminal complaint with the Guyana Police Force over a social media post of a documentary that paints him as a financier of the People’s Progressive Party and someone who has been involved in a number of alleged illegal activities. In a release, Mr. Jagmohan said […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2022
Letters, News, Politics
Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Opposition MP Jermaine Figueria today called out the government and particularly President Irfaan Ali for his administration’s failure to swear in members of the Public Procurement Commission. Although the National Assembly has given bi-partisan support of the five nominees to be appointed to the Commission, there has been no […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2022
Crime, News, Politics
Amid loud protests from residents of the East Coast Demerara village of Golden Grove this morning, Acting Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken visited the home of the 25-year-old man who was shot dead by the Police last Friday in Haslington. The Commissioner met with the mother and other relatives of Quindon Bacchus and expressed his sympathy […]