Andy Peters, 21, spent four years in prison on remand for murder. On Monday, he was freed by the High Court after Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall upheld a no-case submission made by his attorney Latchmie Rahamat. Peters was on trial with his co-accused Shannon Cox, 24, for the April 29, 2017 murder of 16-year-old Brian Yearwood…
A number of key players in the international energy sector are in Guyana for the International Energy Conference which opens tomorrow at the Marriott hotel. The Conference is coming at a time when Guyana is set to ramp up oil production and more companies have been eyeing Guyana for their next major investment. President Irfaan…
Alex Douglas on Monday admitted to stabbing his reputed wife, Allison Bowen, to death in 2012 during a domestic dispute at their Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara home. Douglas was arraigned before Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall at the Georgetown High Court and admitted that on October 14, 2012, he murdered Bowen and wounded her sister, Nicola King…
A number of key players in the international energy sector are in Guyana for the International Energy Conference which opens tomorrow at the Marriott hotel. The Conference is coming at a time when Guyana is set to ramp up oil production and more companies have been eyeing Guyana for their next major investment. President Irfaan…
Two more persons have died from the dreaded COVID-19 virus, increasing Guyana’s overall death toll to 1,196, the Ministry of Health reported on Monday. The latest victims were a fully vaccinated 70-year-old man from Region Five who died on February 14 and a 54-year-old woman of Region Three who died on February 13. Her vaccination…
A number of key players in the international energy sector are in Guyana for the International Energy Conference which opens tomorrow at the Marriott hotel. The Conference is coming at a time when Guyana is set to ramp up oil production and more companies have been eyeing Guyana for their next major investment. President Irfaan…
By Vishani Ragobeer Vishani@newsroom.gy Massive developments, including the new gas-to-energy project, are carded for Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) and GAICO Construction, a local company, aims to capitalise on these developments through its new shore base facility. Construction started at the Nismes, West Bank Demerara (WBD) site on Monday about five years after some of…
A number of key players in the international energy sector are in Guyana for the International Energy Conference which opens tomorrow at the Marriott hotel. The Conference is coming at a time when Guyana is set to ramp up oil production and more companies have been eyeing Guyana for their next major investment. President Irfaan…
THIRTY-NINE businesses and agencies involved in Guyana’s manufacturing and services sector are scheduled to have their products on display at a ‘Benab Duty-Free Shop’, from February 12 – 18 at the Umana Yana, to complement the 2022 International Energy Conference and Expo. The pop-up duty-free shopping area, which is open only to foreign delegates of…
By Tota C. Mangar FEBRUARY 2022 marks the 83rd Anniversary of the 1939 Leonora Strike and Riots. At that juncture of our country’s history (1939), Plantation Leonora on the West Coast of Demerara was one of the 27 functioning sugar estates in colonial British Guiana. During the first half of the 19th Century, ownership of…
