October 27, 2016

People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) member, Vickram Outar Bharrat was on Thursday sworn in as the party’s new Member of Parliament (MP), replacing Charles Ramson Junior. Ramson resigned as MP on September 30, 2016 to take…

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved an US$8 million loan to help reduce maternal, perinatal and neonatal deaths in Guyana. According to a statement from the IDB today, the programme which seeks to strengthen…

A prison officer who was arrested at the weekend for trafficking 298 grammes of marijuana into the New Amsterdam prison was today granted bail. 38- year- old Joanne Erskine King appeared before magistrate Alex Moore in the New…

For the year 2014, sugar export earnings amounted to US$88.0 million, 22.9 percent less than the 2013 level. This outturn was mainly due to a 34.8 percent decrease in the average price, since there was an 18.3 percent increase in export…

Guyana’s exports are large relative to the size of its economy, and because of that fact, external demand for the nation’s commodities are important to its economic and fiscal performance. It is crucial to note however that…

Opener Kyle Hope continued his rich vein of form with a hundred and Rovman Powell turned in a brilliant all-round effort to lead West Indies A to a commanding 109-run win over Sri Lanka A in the second unofficial ODI at the Welagedara…

(Upstream- International Oil and Gas newspaper) A key appraisal of ExxonMobil’s large Liza oil discovery offshore Guyana was successful, further boosting the resource estimate for what was already the largest oil discovery of 2015, as the…

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Guyana Chronicle on Tuesday last in an effort to promote football across the nation.    The signing, which was held in the Boardroom of the GFF,…