December 2017

Despite being absent from a stakeholders’ briefing on the official release of the ExxonMobil contract, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has tons of questions for the Government of Guyana. However, at the People’s Progressive Party…

President David Granger and Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo are expected to meet sometime next week to discuss the nomination of Justice Kenneth Benjamin, the current Chief Justice of Belize, as the new Chancellor of the Judiciary…

Magistrate Esther Sam has fined 35-year-old Steve King $7,500 and suspended his driver’s license for 12 months after he was charged for the second time with driving under the influence of alcohol. Police reported that King, a miner of…

For the first time in nine years, the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) has recorded a decline in vehicular traffic. General Manager of the DHB Corporation, Rawlston Adams disclosed that it has also seen a reduction in the maritime traffic.…

Police are on the hunt for four men who allegedly broke into a house at Lindy Avenue, Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD) in the wee hours of Friday, December 29, 2017, and robbed three businessmen of cash and other valuables. News Room…

A 40-year-old Lab Technician, who was on her way to pay her GPL bill, was attacked and robbed by two bandits on Main Street, Georgetown on Thursday, December 28 at around 13:45hrs. News Room understands that Tamara Gibbs was robbed of…

Two men appeared before Senior Magistrate, Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday, December 29, 2017, charged with being in possession of 143 pounds of cocaine, which was found stashed in a gas cylinder. Damion…

By Avenash Ramzan While West Indies Under-19 hero Keemo Paul has been constantly grabbing the headlines with some telling performances, especially with the ball for Guyana Jaguars, another young all-rounder Sherfane Rutherford has been…

Dynamic fifties from Colin Munro and Glenn Phillips laid the base, the lower order pitched in, then a sharp New Zealand attack aided by even sharper catching, saw the hosts trounce West Indies for the sixth time on tour. The visitors…

The public building which currently houses the Ministry of Citizenship at 164 Waterloo Street, North Cummingsburg, Georgetown, will be renamed in honour of the Indigenous political leader, Stephen Joseph Campbell. This is according to…