February 3, 2020

President David Granger on Monday conferred Guyana’s second-highest national award to Mia Mottley, the Prime Minister of Barbados. Mottley was awarded in recognition of her contribution to strengthening the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)…

The State has been slapped with a $450M lawsuit by the relatives of the three Linden men who lost their lives in 2012 during a protest against electricity rate hikes in the mining town. The men - Ron Somerset, Shemroy Bouyea and Allan…

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) –the international financial firm which was hired to valuate assets of the closed sugar estates –has opened an office in Georgetown. The company in a statement on Sunday said PwC Guyana will create new jobs…

By Ravin Singh The Jamaican-based National Commercial Bank (NCB) could soon open its doors in Guyana if business prospects remain attractive. “We are looking at Guyana, but clearly we have to see the opportunity and understand it,”…

Three-year-old cancer patient Chayanne Parboo of St Monica in the Upper Pomeroon leaves Guyana Monday night for treatment in the United States. The little girl was in dire need of platelets to conduct a bone marrow test; after sufficient…

Eager and young students gathered at the Arthur Chung Conference, Greater Georgetown Monday to begin two online training courses that will ensure that they benefit and contribute to the petroleum industry. The courses are being provided…

Floyd Rammat was on Monday sentenced by Justice Sandil Kissoon to 30 years imprisonment for the April 2015 murder of city businessman, Abdul Farouk Ghanie, proprietor of Hamson’s General Store. Rammat, 30, confessed to the capital…

As authorities look to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading to Guyana, it has urged those who arrived in the country from China since the start of the year to call a hotline number if they develop symptoms, but the hotline is not yet…

The local subsidiary of Russian bauxite giant RUSAL has pulled its expatriate staff out of Guyana, fired 326 Guyanese workers and suspended its operations along the Berbice River. RUSAL owns 90% of the Bauxite Company of Guyana…

After three days of riveting Table Tennis action at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Christopher Franklin and Natalie Cummings emerged senior national champions on Sunday evening. Once again the match brought the teacher and his student…