August 7, 2018

A businessman who operates a stall at the East La Penitence Market was on Tuesday afternoon robbed of cash and jewellery totalling $622,000. The incident occurred at about 13:30hrs at the Market. News Room understands that 60-year-old…

The 13th annual academy of the Buxton ‘Carl Hooper’ Cricket Club will start on Wednesday (August 8) at 09:30h and run until August 19 at the Buxton ground on the East Coast of Demerara. The two-week camp caters for children between ages…

Monica Lakhan thought the years of suffering her 29-year-old daughter endured with an abuser 13 years her senior was coming to an end but she had no idea her daughter would meet her death in such a brutal way at her Kilcoy, Corentyne…

Former Minister of Natural Resources, Robert Persaud wants the ExxonMobil Foundation to reconsider the role of the US$10M it earmarked for investment in Guyana over the next five years. The oil giant’s philanthropic arm announced last…

Dear Editor, Recently Stabroek News canvassed the views of a number of my colleagues in the media about the fact that the President has held two Press Conferences since being elected to office. They all, some more circumspect than…

Two men appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court today, charged with shooting at the police on Emancipation Day at John and Chapel Streets, Georgetown. Twenty-one-year-old Jamal Jeriah, of Albert Street, Queenstown, Georgetown and…

(BBC) Brazil has re-opened its northern border with Venezuela to those fleeing economic and political turmoil there, after briefly closing it. The Supreme Court overturned an earlier order to shut the frontier until Brazil could put in…

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) Tuesday received 50 food hampers from DeSinco Trading Limited, which will be transported to the 260 confirmed Venezuelan migrants, who are occupying areas in Barima-Waini (Region One), the Ministry of the…

Two experts from the eGovernance Academy (eGA) of Estonia have returned to Guyana on a second visit, and as part of the first phase in a project to develop the Action Plan for the creation of a Digital Governance Roadmap. The experts…

The Alliance For Change (AFC) as part of its ‘AFC Cares Initiative’, on Monday made “meaningful contributions” to two of Guyana Scholars who will be pursuing studies overseas. Fatima Karim, who is Guyana’s top 2016 CSEC performer, gained…