February 2017

By Leroy Smith The landmark 'Benjamin Homemade Bakery' at 33 Middle Walk Buxton, East Coast Demerara was this morning gutted by fire, even while the operations of the bakery have been temporarily out of service. Shellon Campbell, a…

By Avenash Ramzan In a test of fitness, strength and stamina, the nation’s fittest athletes will converge on the National Park Tarmac on March 5 for what is touted as the biggest Fitness Challenge ever to be staged by Guyana Fitness…

WBO world welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao will fight Great Britain's Amir Khan on April 23. The bout has been arranged after Pacquiao's followers on Twitter voted Khan as the opponent they would like to see the Filipino fight next.…

By Treiston Joseph After opening with a big 3-1 win against Bishops’ High two weeks ago, Masters Academy showed that they are no pushovers with a massive win against St Rose’s High on Saturday when the tournament continued at the…

Captain Chadwick Walton struck his second List A hundred in three outings, but it was not enough to prevent the UWI Vice Chancellor’s XI from crashing to a 117-run defeat to England on Saturday. The 31-year-old, who gathered a…

By Leroy Smith A fifteen-year-old female was on Friday among two Trafficked victims who were rescued by the police in Essequibo. The News Room has been reliably informed that the other woman is twenty-four years old. The two were…

Businessman Rajesh Singh will continue as President of the Everest Cricket Club following his re-election at that organisation’s Annual General Meeting and election on Friday evening. Johnny Azeez was elected Vice-President and Saheed…

The Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) has noted that any criminal charges brought against ex-ministers of Government “will not be the product of professional investigation but the manifestation of political vendetta and witch-hunting.”…

It has been said earlier this month by Minister of State, Joseph Harmon at a Post Cabinet media conference that members of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) are being paid their full salaries which amounted to Millions of dollars,…

Carlos Brathwaite and Hayley Matthews’ career-defining innings in the men's and women's World T20 finals were voted the best T20 batting performances of 2016 at the ESPNCricinfo Awards, announced today. Ben Stokes won the Test batting award…