— Minister Dr Ashni Singh PRESIDENT, Dr Irfaan Ali and a high-level delegation including Vice-President, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo are currently in Washington D.C. meeting with several high-level US officials to advance the strategic shared interest between the two countries. This is according to Senior Minister within the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance,…
Seven months after Laparkan Guyana’s shipping bond was destroyed, the company has said the investigation is still ongoing and no claims for compensation by customers has been paid out. Laparkan Group of Companies’ shipping bond was destroyed in a massive fire on January 16. Since then the company’s insurance company has commenced an investigation to…
CHARRANDASS Persaud was on Monday awarded $7 million in damages after he won a libel suit against A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian Khemraj Ramjattan. The lawsuit relates to libellous statements made after passage of the no-confidence motion in December 2018. The damages, in the claim filed by Persaud in 2019, were…
Hours after a section of the Lethem trail collapsed, traffic resumed after temporary works were done. A statement from the Ministry of Public Works noted that the section of the road that washed away is within the vicinity of Surama village, located in the North Rupununi. “Temporary work has already been done and more permanent…
NEVILLE Forde, who was on trial for the murder of Sophia bread vendor, Andre Melroy Alexander, in 2017, was, on Tuesday, acquitted of the crime by a jury. Forde was on trial before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the Demerara High Court for the capital offence which read that, on May 5, 2017, in the County…
Roopnarine Persaud called “Helicopter” and Deonarine Lakhan called “Pascal” on Wednesday pleaded guilty to killing 39-year-old estate worker Kawal Shivnauth during a drinking spree in 2017. The duo was arraigned before Justice Sandil Kissoon at the Georgetown High Court for the capital offence of murder. However, the pair opted to plead guilty to the lesser…
–Min. Croal says event was a ‘big success’ AROUND 5,000 persons were recipients of house lots over the last four days, as part of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA)’s “Dream Realised” programme conducted during the International Building Expo 2022. This is according to Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal on Tuesday during…
By Fareeza Haniff in Beijing fareeza@newsroom.gy Guyana’s Ambassador to China Anyin Choo on Wednesday lauded the “people to people” exchange between Guyana and China as the bedrock of relations between the countries which have spanned the last five decades and have included cooperation in everything from agriculture and health to defence cooperation and infrastructural development.…
–says Liza Destiny FPSO now well equipped with new flash-gas compressor THE new flash-gas compressor for the Liza Destiny Floating, Production and Offloading (FPSO) vessel has been installed, and the vessel is now operating with minimum background flaring, according to ExxonMobil Guyana’s Production Manager Mike Ryan, during a press conference held at the company’s Duke…
Collin Venture, 41, was on Wednesday, sentenced to serve 16 years imprisonment for three counts of rape committed on a 13-year-old girl in 2020. Venture, a security guard of ‘B’ Field Sophia, Georgetown was sentenced by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall at the Demerara High Court. Last month a 12-member jury found Venture guilty of the three…
