February 20, 2018

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) held a two-day training course for a total of 47 coaches and referees of the Moruca Sub-District as part of strengthening the capacity of the Region for football development.  The programme, held on…

Head of the Forestry Commission, James Singh says the local industry was not greatly affected when Malaysian Logging firm Barama pulled out of the Guyanese market in 2016. Barama had invested in excess of US$43B in its operations in…

GENEVA (Reuters) - Sanctions should be stepped up against Venezuela’s leaders and oil sector in response to the country’s repressive political climate, the head of the Organisation of American States (OAS) said on Tuesday. Under President…

A 21-year-old Auto Mechanic was sentenced to four years jail today by Magistrate Annett Singh for the $3.3M armed robbery committed on a businessman in the vicinity of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) on Brickdam, Georgetown.…

The Rastafarian Community will be holding a march from Buxton, East Coast Demerara to the Square of the Revolution in Georgetown on February 26, 2018 in an effort to erase the stigma attached to marijuana. The march is aimed at fighting…

Six persons, including a female, were taken into custody on Monday afternoon by Police ranks stationed at the Police Checkpoint at Itabali, Puruni Road, Mazaruni River, Region 7 after the lawmen found at a total of 662 grams of compressed…

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has reported a spate of vandalism to cables connecting highway lights and is seeking the public’s help in reporting cases of destruction of property or illegal connections. The Ministry is also…

The captain of the motor vessel and one sailor are currently hospitalised after the vessel became engulfed in fire on Monday. Police said Ramesh Maniram, the captain, and VentleJainarine, the sailor, were in the vicinity of the vessel’s…

Police are hunting for three men who robbed two families at Enmore on the East Coast of Demerara this morning. In a statement, the police said Chatterpaul Persaud and his wife were confronted by three masked men at about 02:00hrs. The…

Jahmar Hamilton slammed his sixth first-class hundred, but Raymon Reifer fell agonisingly short of his second, as West Indies A moved into a superior position against England Lions in the second “Test” on Monday. The diminutive Hamilton…