UK-oil company, Tullow Oil Plc, will reduce its headcount in Kenya by about 40% as part of a company-wide restructuring following poor performances at its Africa and Guyana operations. According to a Bloomberg article , about 35 of its workers in Kenya will become redundant, Tullow Kenya Managing Director Martin Mbogo said in an emailed response to
Forty mothers graduated from the Ministry of Education’s Re-integration of Adolescent Mothers Programme in Region Six, East-Berbice – Corentyne Thursday. The programme is being executed through the Ministry’s Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) Unit. The 40 young women are now certified in areas of hair braiding, make-up, manicure and pedicure, nail art and henna…
The debate around the growing plantain chip industry and its potential has once again resurfaced and this time, the PPP’s Presidential Candidate, Irfaan Ali, believes that the product is one which his party understands better than the government. Ali made the assertion on Tuesday while addressing residents of Wakenaam – a small island which sits…
-President Granger says coalition plans to provide 10,000 jobs during Decade of Development By Alva Solomon PRESIDENT David Granger, on Wednesday evening, assured Guyanese youths that the APNU+AFC Coalition will ensure that the country’s youth benefit from a minimum of 10,000 jobs and career paths which his government will realise in the various economic initiatives
By Akeem Greene Eyebrows were raised on Monday over the omission of West Indies One-Day International batsmen Evin Lewis and Shimron Hetmyer for the tour to Sri Lanka after they reportedly failed to meet the new minimum fitness standard. Between the ODIs and T20Is, a total of six matches, Lewis scored 309 runs, with three…
A Guyanese medical student who returned from China via Suriname last evening created mayhem at the Diamond Hospital after she was taken there from the Cheddi Jagan Airport to undergo an evaluation and additional screening as part of the protocol to deal with the coronavirus. News Source understands that the medical student and her relatives…
…says report seeking to influence upcoming elections …Guyanese are assured of earning tens of billions of United States dollars in the years ahead THE Government of Guyana has rejected a recent report by international investigative company, Global Witness, as “baseless”, “sensationalist” and “agenda-driven.” Recently, the company purported in a report titled ‘Signed Away,’ that Guyana
One day after a Corentyne farmer was charged for the murders of a resort owner and one of his workers, a 16-year-old boy from the same Corentyne area was charged in connection with the same crime. Because of the age of the teenage accused, his name and identity will not be revealed in keeping with…
…President Granger bestows Guyana’s second highest National Award on Prime Minister Mia Mottley By Lisa Hamilton AS a part of Guyana’s 50th Republic Anniversary celebrations, President David Granger on Monday conferred the country’s second highest national award, the Order of Roraima, on Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, for her outstanding contribution to the
The 16-year-old alleged mastermind behind the murders of two men at the Sunsplash Holiday Beach Resort, located at #63 Village, Corentyne Berbice, was on Tuesday arraigned at the Juvenile Court at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The teen, who hails from the #65 Village, appeared before Magistrate Annette Singh and was not required to plea to…
