July 23, 2020

See full statement below from the Hydromet office.  At 14:00 hrs 23 July 2020, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) informed that Tropical Storm Gonzalo was located at 9.7 º N and 48.8 º W, which is about one thousand and eighty…

Police are investigating the brazen gunning down of a young man on Middle Road, La Penitence Georgetown on Thursday afternoon. Dead is Navindra Samaroo; he was shot in broad daylight. Regional Commander, Senior Superintendent Phillip…

The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday revealed that one more person tested positive for COVID-19 from 56 tests conducted while 11 more have recovered from the disease as of July 23. As such, there are now 351 known cases in Guyana…

Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield is expected to appear at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday, July 24 to face three private criminal charges after he was officially served on Thursday. Lowenfield has been evading the…

England and the West Indies will compete for a new Richards-Botham Trophy when they next meet in a Men’s Test series to pay tribute to two of their greatest players whose rivalry and friendship embodies the close relationship and mutual…

By Bibi Khatoon Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Nine Carl Parker on Thursday said some residents in the Region are hiding their relatives who cross over from Brazil illegally, thus posing a threat to others. The Regional…

Alistair Routledge –former President of ExxonMobil Qatar –on Thursday took up his new role to lead the company’s Guyana operations. Routledge took over from Rod Henson who was recently named Vice President, Wells, for ExxonMobil in…

Some 16 foreign nationals including Cubans and an Irish who entered Guyana illegally within the last few days have been quarantined at the COVID-19 Hospital at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara. One of the Cuban nationals tested positive…

An ‘A’ Field Sophia, Georgetown family of four is seeking assistance to rebuild their house after it was gutted by a fire Wednesday morning. Sehfred McPherson, 31, a machine operator with the Guyana National Shipping Corporation (GNIC)…

A Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara family managed to escape unharmed, but with just the clothes on their backs, after a fire engulfed their property and burnt everything to the ground. “They didn’t take long to come, but… them couldn’t…