December 23, 2020

The Ministry of Health on Wednesday recorded 42 new COVID-19 cases from 364 tests, taking the overall number of confirmed cases to 6, 258. The new cases were recorded in Region Four with 11 new cases, Region Five recorded 16 new cases,…

The Auditor General Deodat Sharma has recommended that the Police be called in to investigate and charge those who were responsible for the rental of a bond to store pharmaceutical drugs under the last government; $337.5 million was paid to…

Guyana Police Force (GPF) detectives along with the members of the Intelligence Department of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) have launched an investigation into a suspected fuel racket at the GDF. During 2019, the Guyana Defence Force…

The APNU+AFC coalition government gave out $249M under the Sustainable Livelihood and Entrepreneurial Development (SLED) programme in 2019 but the Auditor General’s office report revealed that there was hardly any structured accounting…

Some 300 workers employed with the Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) are currently on a “sit-in” after they were informed by the company that they will not be receiving a bonus or wage increase this year. The workers are being represented by…

By Akeem Greene According to the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board, the Regional Super50 will be held from February 2-27 in Antigua and Barbuda. They have also announced West Indies limited-overs captain, Kieron Pollard, will lead the…

Guyanese opener Chandrapaul Hemraj copped the award for the most runs in the recently concluded US Open T20 tournament, amassing 190 runs from four innings for Somerset Cavaliers. The left-hander struck two fifties, with the highest…

The Auditor General has found discrepancies in payments approved on a contract for renovations and functional enhancements to a call centre building at Linden, Region 10. “The Ministry of Public Telecommunications made full payment on a…

Two international lawyers representing Guyana’s interest in the ongoing border controversy case have said that the recent ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was both reasonable and favourable. The statement from the…

Ministers Oneidge Walrond and Dr Ashni Singh were on Wednesday sworn in as unelected Members of Parliament (MP); neither of them will having voting rights in the National Assembly since they are “technocrat” ministers. Technocrat…