July 25, 2017

By Avenash Ramzan The Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) intensified focus on Women’s football development received a shot in the arm with the Guyana Girls Academy (GGA), an overseas-based body, partnering with the local federation to…

The Rights of the Child Commission (RCC) has reported that about 90 percent of children at holding centres across the country are denied their right to legal representative. As such, the Commission has embarked on a programme to remedy that…

Police are closing in on suspected prison escapees in the Le Repentir Cemetery. Police suspect that the men are heavily armed. News Room team is currently on location and will provide more details as it becomes available.

Guyana’s top female badminton player Priyanna Ramdhani has advanced to the quarter-finals of the Doubles segment at the Pan American Championship in Canada. Priyanna, who is a Caribbean age group champion, as well as the national junior…

Career dentist Dr Avis Kelly, a graduate of Howard University Dental School, is leading a 10-person medical team to Guyana and is attached to the Leonora Hospital, West Coast Demerara and the Suddie Hospital, Essequibo Coast. Kelly and…

A former member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Charles Peters, 36, of an East Coast Demerara (ECD) community was this afternoon shot by ranks from 'C' Division. The circumstances under which the man was shot were not immediately…

A Trinidadian man is in Police custody after the vehicle he was driving crashed into a pedal cyclist at Lovely Lass Public Road, West Coast Berbice (WCB). Dead is 23-year-old Keyfa Campbell of No. 29 Village, WCB. Police reported that…

A Police Constable, who has been serving the Force for over ten years, has claimed he was badly beaten and his family, including his 10-year-old daughter, terrorised in a mysterious Joint Services operation. Constable Carloid Austin,…

The police in Berbice have arrested a man in connection with an attempted armed robbery against a businessman and his family at #73 Village on the Corentyne on July 23. News Room understands that the incident was committed by a gang of gun…

There is an ongoing effort by members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and prison authorities to pacify a disturbance that has erupted at the Camp Street Prison. When News Room visited the site moments ago, policemen were entering the…