April 26, 2019

The National Assembly on Friday honoured convicted terrorist Abdul Kadir as a “great man.” Kadir died in a U.S. prison last year June while serving a life sentence after he was found guilty in 2010 of plotting to blow up fuel tanks at…

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo on Friday could not say when a new Minister of Foreign Affairs would be appointed. The resignation of Minister Carl Greenidge became effective on Thursday and President David Granger did not announce a…

Valerie Patterson-Yearwood, the new minister responsible for rural affairs in the Ministry of Agriculture, has shrugged off suggestions that her removal from the portfolio of Housing at the Ministry of Communities meant she was demoted.…

The former Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin Friday said he was eager to get back into the private sector and confirmed that he has not been offered a new position in Government. Before becoming a Government minister in May 2015,…

A 35-year-old taxi driver, identified as Marlon Rodney, is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was shot in his left leg Thursday during an argument with two men at the corner of Durban Street and Mandela…

After surviving a brutal piracy attack a year ago in Suriname, a fisherman is struggling to make ends meet as he is now unable to work. Dharamdeo Persaud known as ‘Achie boy’ worked as a fisherman for 40 years until April 27, 2018, when…

The athletes who represented the nation at the various CARIFTA Games over the past week were honoured Thursday evening at the Pegasus Hotel, where Minister of Social Cohesion Dr George Norton told the gathering of parents and athletes the…

The Government of Guyana on Friday in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched its first national policy on child labour to eliminate all forms of child labour by 2025. “The child labour policy marks an…

Raj Mohabir, a 10-year-old of Bush Lot Village, Corentyne Berbice committed suicide Friday afternoon. News Room understands that the former student of Crabwood Creek Primary school was found dead by his 16-year-old sister in a shack in…

Twenty-eight-year-old Dinesh Dias known as ‘Anil’ of lot 26 Timehri, East Bank Demerara, on Friday pleaded guilty to having 1.8 kilogrammes of cocaine and 1.89 grams of cannabis in his possession for the purpose of trafficking on April 23.…