February 21, 2020

A 30-year-old minibus driver was on Friday sentenced to one week imprisonment for threatening to kill a traffic officer, who had stopped him for a traffic-related offence. King Wilson of Melanie, East Coast Demerara appeared before City…

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) on Friday afternoon launched a 50%-off Republic promotion to give a discount to persons who would have bought lands between October 1, 2019, to February 29, 2020. The persons…

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has defended its decision to reduce the number of private residences to be used as polling stations for the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections. Speaking with the media during the Joint…

The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the April 2018 piracy attack in Suriname in which 25 Guyanese fishermen were savagely beaten, chopped, burnt and then dumped overboard, has found that it resulted from a turf war over fishing grounds.…

City Magistrate Dylon Bess on Friday found a 35-year-old businesswoman guilty of trafficking over five pounds of cocaine in 2017. Joy Jacqueline Caines, who owns a boutique, was convicted for having 2.092 kilograms of cocaine in her…

A US$92,000 fully air-conditioned, sound and dust proof school was commissioned in Sand Hills along the Demerara River on Thursday; it is the first of its kind to be built in Guyana. The school was gifted to the community by U.S. bauxite…

With just one point sep­a­rat­ing West In­dies and Sri Lan­ka in the ICC One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al rank­ings, captain Kieron Pollard and his team are head­ing in­to their three-match series with expectations of winning, but equally…

It’s now a case of one day, two more matches to bring the curtains down on the third annual Magnum Futsal Mash Cup at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue. Saturday’s final pits emerging force Rio All-Stars against former champions Bent…

The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) has taken a decision to shift the first round of the Drag Racing Meet to April; a specific date is still to be decided. Initially, March 15 was scheduled for round one of Drag Racing,…

Members of the Joint Services began casting their votes for the parties of their choice on Friday morning at 82 polling stations across the country. Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Patrick West told the media at the Camp…