Guyana News

A construction worker mixes cement in one of Guyana's newest housing scemes - Herstelling, located on the east bank of the Demerara River.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Spanish-based oil exploration company, Repsol, and the Guyana government on Tuesday finalised a petroleum agreement and licence for the company to continue to undertake oil exploration in the shelfal waters of Guyana's exclusive economic zone.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon on Thursday announced that Guyana's decision to afford Caribbean Airlines flag carrier status will be communicated to the regulatory bodies in New York and Canada, thereby giving effect to the decision by the government of Guyana.

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The charred remains of Totaram Mootoo and his wife Dolly Mootoo was today discovered at their Lot 22 Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara home.

The Miami International Airport concourse that was evacuated Thursday afternoon while bomb squad technicians examined a suspicious piece of luggage has been reopened to the public.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Participants in the first bi-regional dialogue workshop under the EUCARINET project have called for increased investment in science, technology and innovation in the region.

THE GOVERNMENT of South Africa has found itself in an embarrassing position after having felt compelled to postpone a posthumous conferment of its highest national honour, the Oliver Tambo Award, on Guyana's late president, Forbes Burnham.

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An advertisement in yesterday's Sunday Stabroek said that Camex Restaurants Inc is looking for employees to fill the needs of the franchise at New Amsterdam, Linden, Georgetown, Parika, Vreed-en-Hoop and Bartica.

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Port of Spain, May 6: Guyana marked the 175th anniversary of Indian Arrival Day Sunday by unveiling a monument at the very location where the first batch of indentured Indian labourers alighted from a ship in 1838.

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With more than 250 public and resort golf courses in B.C., there is a course that will fit your skills and budget We love the speed, the skill and the fights in hockey but you know what we love the most? The players.

The U.S. government has joined a growing list of international agencies calling on authorities in Guyana to immediately revoke radio frequencies issued to those closely connected to the South American country's ruling party.

The delivery of health and education is to get a further boost with the arrival of yet another batch of United States Peace Corps volunteers.

The search for Rajnarine Hookumchand of Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice who went missing on October 15, 2008 officially ended on Monday when his decomposed remains were discovered in a Georgetown mortuary.

By Shubha Singh : Two ships sailing out of Calcutta port on the eastern coast of India, the Whitby and Hesperus, reached British Guiana on the northern coast of South America on May 5, 1838 after a perilous sea journey that lasted 112 days.

Residents of several coastal communities today woke to find their yards and homes under several inches of muddy seawater after windy conditions in the Atlantic propelled 1.5 metre swells, riding on 3.11 metre tides over various sea defence structures.

A field demonstration on reclamation/reforestation techniques for mined-out gold areas was recently conducted at Mahdia for miners and other industry stakeholders.