February 26, 2021

By Isanella Patoir After her 15-year-old son was diagnosed with end stage renal failure and was told that only a transplant would save his life, his mother, 32-year-old Nadia Budwah agreed to be his donor and was the perfect match.…

Guyana recorded 28 new COVID-19 cases on Friday from 763 tests, taking the overall number of confirmed cases to 8, 513. Seventeen of the new cases were recorded in Region Four, while Region Six recorded eight new cases and Region Five…

The Government of Guyana has extended the COVID-19 measures for the month of March, which means that restrictions against social activities remain in place and the 10:30pm to 4am curfew is still in effect. In the updated measures…

Over the last three months, some 213 Amerindian Villages were able to access the Presidential Grant Fund, which allowed them to pursue sustainable village projects, Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai told the National Assembly…

The Government of India will be donating 80,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to Guyana and according to the Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony, these vaccines are expected here sometime next week. The minister made the…

Cricket West Indies (CWI) Selection Panel on Friday named the West Indies squads for the CG Insurance T20 International Series and CG Insurance One-Day International Series against Sri Lanka at the Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG) and Sir…

The U.S. Embassy and the U.S State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics & Law Enforcement, through the Justice Education Society (JES), donated a number of items valued at GY$798,000 to the Guyana Police Force and the…

The Guyana Cricket Board election, set for noon on Friday, was put off to another date, despite the presence of two of the three county boards- Berbice and Demerara- which constitutes a quorum under the Guyana Cricket Administration Act.…

A 22-year-old labourer was on Friday remanded to prison for the murder of a 72-year-old man, who was burnt alive at the newly-built Huaxin Supermarket at Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD), last week. Marco Seudatt of Fourth Street,…

Lambasting what he said was the APNU+AFC Coalition’s “big idea” for the housing sector during its one term in government, Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal on Friday told the National Assembly that the dozens of duplexes built by…