September 29, 2017

A decision has been taken to scrap the six-hours cap which was placed on the working hours of school cleaners; according to the Ministry of Education, they will now be allowed to work a daily eight-hour shift. This decision was taken by…

By Devina Samaroo Missing financial records is holding up a special audit into the controversial Durban Park project, according to the Auditor General of Guyana, Deodat Sharma. The Office of the Auditor General had launched a special…

A 43-year-old woman was robbed of $500,000 at her Diamond Housing Scheme home at approximately 12:00hrs Friday. The News Room was told that the woman had just withdrawn the money from the Republic Bank branch in Diamond on the East Bank…

By Devina Samaroo The Office of the Auditor General has uncovered the mismanagement of some $40 million dollars in Region Eight’s school feeding programme and the matter has since been reported to the police. The issue is expected to…

Banks DIH Limited has again renewed its partnership with Courts Guyana Inc. for the seventh annual Courts 10K and 3K athletic Road races set for Sunday (October 1) around Georgetown. The local beverage giant made the commitment during a…

Seventy-four schools across the country were awarded today for achieving an overall attendance rate of 95 percent or above. The event was hosted at the National Cultural Centre. The schools were awarded with the aim of improving the…

Jonny Bairstow made a career-best unbeaten 141 and Jason Roy 96 as England cruised to a nine-wicket win over West Indies in the fifth and final one-day international in Southampton. England's spinners Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid helped to…

By Avenash Ramzan The Golden Jaguars President’s XI and Indigenous XI players are bursting with enthusiasm ahead of this Sunday’s charity football game, geared at raising funds for victims of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, which ravaged…

By Leroy Smith Superintendent Wayne DeHearte has been ordered transferred from the Guyana Police Force Narcotics Branch, effective Monday, October 03, 2017 as the probe deepens into the disappearance of almost four kilograms of cocaine…

Hours after a quantity of cocaine went missing from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) at the Police Headquarters, the man at the centre of the investigations turned himself over to the police. News Room first broke the…