July 12, 2021

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has shortlisted 34 players for the upcoming Rugby Americas North (RAN) Sevens tournament, scheduled for October 16–17 in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The squad listed for training is mostly made of…

There are now two children receiving treatment in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the National Infectious Diseases Hospital at Liliendaal, Georgetown, while two others are hospitalised in the transition wards at that facility.…

The government’s No-Confidence Motion against Opposition Leader, Joseph Harmon, has been officially delivered to Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs. Isaacs confirmed on Monday morning that he has since reviewed the document…

After weeks of delayed shipments and global shortages due to the emergence of the more infectious Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, Guyana has finally received another shipment of the second doses of the Sputnik V…

Jacklyn Lamaizon, the landlady who rented an apartment to 24-year-old Dwayne Taitt who was stabbed to death, was under police guard on Monday morning as family members and friends of the deceased gathered at the premises. According to…

Dwayne Daniel Taitt, 24, an enforcement officer attached to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), was stabbed to death just after midnight Sunday by the son of his landlady. Police said Taitt lived at the Lot 2 Middleton Street,…

On Saturday last, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha met residents and farmers from Canje, Berbice, and assured them that assessments are ongoing to determine the number of losses they would have encountered as a result of the recent…

A 10-year-old identified, as Anand Mangroo of Lot 380 Hope, Lowlands, East Coast Demerara, drowned on Sunday afternoon between 16:00hrs and 16:30hrs at the Hope Seawall. According to police reports, Mangroo, along with his 13-year-old…

Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha on Saturday visited Ithaca, Mahaica-Berbice, where the village’s first Community Development Council (CDC) was formed. A number of residents turned up at the Ithaca Primary School to form the…

An 18-month-old girl, Orinda August, of Potsville, Kwakwani, near the Berbice River in Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice), drowned in a bucket of water on Sunday evening, according to police reports. According to information received,…