Month: May 2017

Georgetown: Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman said that the government is in the process of finalising ExxonMobil’s production licence. The Minister made the announcement to stakeholders in opening remarks…

Georgetown: Minister of State, Mr. Joseph Harmon, Wednesday morning, said that even as climate change is addressed at the national level as a part of Guyana’s ‘green’ development policy position, …

Georgetown : First Lady, Mrs. Sandra Granger accepted a donation of food supplies from the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG), for residents of the flood affected areas in Cuyuni-Mazaruni (Region…

Georgetown: The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) has charges four men for the $550M cocaine bust in dressed wood at Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo back on May 12th. They are set…

Region Nine: Residents of Katoonarib in Deep South Rupununi, Region Nine will no longer have to travel long distances to purchase goods, as the community commissioned its own village shop,…

Georgetown: Potaro-Siparuni (Region Eight) and Cuyuni-Mazaruni (Region Seven) are gradually returning to normalcy as floodwaters continue to recede. The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) is working with the Ministries of Agriculture,…

Georgetown: The modern Liliendaal Bridge, which boasts a pedestrian walkway, is now open to vehicular traffic after engineers from the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Monday evening, completed construction works, one…

Georgetown: The discovery of oil and natural gas will not slow Guyana’s move towards the use of 100 percent renewable energy by 2025, Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman told…

Essequibo : 25 year old Sherwin McCalmont, a miner of 7th Avenue, Bartica who was yesterday arrested at the Itaballi Police Checkpoint with 481 grams of cannabis was today sentenced to…

Georgetown : Police ranks in ‘F’ Division (Interior Locations) arrested an operator of a small vessel for unlawful possession of a small calibre firearm with one live round at Barakat Landing,…