May 18, 2021

A 19-year-old labourer on Tuesday confessed to fatally stabbing 17-year-old Clive Osborne during a fight at a shop.  The incident occurred on June 2, 2019 at Supenaam on the Essequibo Coast. Richard Harrychand, formerly of Supenaam,…

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) will soon take steps to pay some 750 employees of the company a 5% salary increase for 2020 in keeping with an agreement reached with the workers’ representative body - the National Association of…

The Cricket West Indies (CWI) Selection Panel has announced a provisional 18-man squad ahead of the three back-to-back, five-match T20 International Series against South Africa, Australia and Pakistan. Guyanese Shimron Hetmyer, who was…

A man has told Police that the burden of caring for his children after his wife committed suicide forced him to ingest a poisonous substance and feed some to his baby girl just after midnight Monday. “Police are investigating the…

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) on Tuesday said it destroyed 290,000 packs of imported cigarettes in Lethem Region 9 because they were found to be without the proper labelling and marking requirements. In a statement, the…

The General Register Office (GRO) on Monday issued its first set of computer-generated birth certificates. The new electronic system also produces death and marriage certificates, which will feature embedded security markings, including…

The Everest Cricket Club in Georgetown, Guyana, has expressed its “dismay and disappointment” over the non-selection of Guyanese batsman Shimron Hetmyer in Cricket West Indies’ 30-man squad for a three-week high-performance red-ball…

Rameez Mohamed will continue to head the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) for a fourth consecutive term after he was re-elected Monday evening when the club held its Annual General Meeting at GT Motorsports. Mohamed, who…

By Vishani Ragobeer Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund (NRF), which holds the revenues earned by the country from the sale of its share of oil being produced offshore, could increase to US$500M (or GY$104.5 billion) by the end of 2021,…

The St Lucia Zouks have announced their retentions for the 2021 Hero Caribbean Premier League, which gets under way on August 28 in St Kitts and Nevis. The Zouks have announced that they will be retaining the core of the team which took…