By News Source Guyana on June 16, 2022
News, Politics
ExxonMobil Guyana announced today that the gas compression and injection systems on the Liza Unity Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO) vessel have been commissioned in record time and are planned for startup mid-next month. The start-up period, the company said, involves temporary, non-routine flaring to safely commission the production and gas compression systems. The […]
By News Source Guyana on June 16, 2022
News, Politics
The Alliance For Change today slammed the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) for refusing to conduct a review of the 2020 elections. Chairperson of the Commission Justice Claudette Singh shut down a proposal of the Opposition nominated Commissioners for there to be a review, stating that such a review would be outside the remit of the […]
By News Source Guyana on June 16, 2022
Elections, News, Politics
A decision by the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) retired Justice Claudette Singh not to review the 2020 elections has gained the support of Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo who described the Opposition’s move to have the review as ‘nonsense’. Back in February, Opposition-nominated GECOM Commissioners Vincent Alexander, Charles Corbin, and Desmond Trotman proposed […]
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 […]