March 24, 2021

See below full press release issued by the Ministry of Finance: Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance Dr. Ashni Singh is sending a stern warning to businesses that should they continue to flout…

With the focus currently on frontline health workers and persons 60 years and above for COVID-19 vaccination, President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday announced a massive vaccination campaign that will now target persons 40 years and older,…

A Trinidad and Tobago player has tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of that nation’s 2022 World Cup Qualifier game against Guyana’s Golden Jaguars on Thursday (March 25) in the Dominican Republic. The player was immediately isolated from…

A total of 88 new COVID-19 cases were recorded on Wednesday from 1, 118 tests, taking the country’s overall number of known cases to 9, 820. Region Four accounted for the majority of the new cases with 49; this was followed by Region…

A Post Mortem Examination (PME) conducted on the body of 42-year-old Ricardo Fagundes, called “Paper Shorts,” revealed that he died from “multiple gunshot injuries”, Police Headquarters noted in a statement. The autopsy was done on…

The North Pakaraima Mountain Safari was granted conditional approval by the National COVID-19 Task Force to host its 18th outdoor experience in Guyana’s mountainous region. Coordinator, Frank Singh, told the News Room that a negative…

Micah Sonaram has once again found himself before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, this time for allegedly swindling $8.5 million from a man for the purchase of an excavator machine and a vehicle. Sonaram, of Flying Fish Street, North…

West Indies ended day four of the first Test against Sri Lanka on 34-1, 341 runs away from a challenging victory target set by Sri Lanka. The Caribbean side, set a target of 375, lost John Campbell for 11, before skipper Kraigg Brathwaite…

The Ministry of Health recorded another COVID-19 death on Wednesday. The latest fatality is a 69-year-old man from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) who died while receiving care at a medical facility. This takes the total number of deaths…

Sterfon Barlow on Wednesday confessed to killing his lover’s husband in 2016 after the man caught them red-handed in bed. Barlow was charged jointly with his lover, Alexis Turpin, for the capital offence of murder. In February, they were…