March 27, 2017

The ban on the importation of used tyres will take effect from April 01, 2017. The Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) is calling on the Government to reverse the decision immediately, and to review the ban on vehicles that are eight (8)…

By Avenash Ramzan It’s all about being smart and not giving out much information. That seems to be the mantra of Golden Jaguars Interim Head Coach, Wayne Dover, ahead of the international friendly against Martinique on Tuesday (March…

The Government, Finance Minister Winston Jordan recently disclosed has been doing some work in the ailing sugar sector. He revealed too that the Berbice Chamber of Commerce has expressed clearly that it would like to see the privatization…

Seasoned campaigner Harold ‘Top Gun’ Hopkinson and Jamaine Braithwaite emerged as the best senior and junior shooters respectively when the 2017 season of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) Smallbore Section commenced at the…

By Stacy Carmichael-James The Central Housing and Planning Authority this morning opened its two-day National Planning Forum with one of its objectives being to evaluate and consolidate inter-agency coordination and collaboration efforts…

CARACAS, Venezuela, Monday, March 27, 2017 – In an unusual acknowledgement of his country’s desperate situation, President Nicolas Maduro has asked the United Nations to help address severe shortages of medicine and medical supplies in…

A Corentyne family plunged into a state of mourning after a young welder was killed during an accident on the Skeldon Public Road last evening (Sunday, March 26, 2017.) 20-year-old Irshad Mamood of Lot 51, No. 77 Housing Scheme,…

The Government of Guyana says it is uncompromising when it comes to avoiding “sleaze and malfeasance in public office,” concerning the country’s budding oil and gas sector. Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo during the opening of the…

(BBC) As a transgender woman living in Guyana, Petronella Trotman has grown accustomed to violence and daily abuse on the streets. But when she was physically attacked in January, while walking in Georgetown, the South American country's…

Following allegations of Brazilian companies selling unsafe produce for years and the subsequent banning of these products by several countries, the Government Analyst-Food and Drug (GA-FDD) is on the lookout for the two delinquent…