December 11, 2021

President Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali, on Saturday, activated a Cabinet Level Task Force to respond to the current rainy season and potential flood impacts across Guyana. The Task Force, led by Prime Minister Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips,…

When you live 4,500 straight miles away, you clutch at anything that gives you a sense of home – the music, the food, and yes, the gyaff with a good GT posse. And all of it was available this Saturday at the Johmard Community Centre in…

Guyana has once again exceeded the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) standards of water quality, this time at the Sheet Anchor Water Treatment Plant in East-Corentyne Berbice, Region Six. The US$6 million plant was today commissioned by…

One woman, age 76, of Region Six (East Berbice – Corentyne) died from COVID-19, increasing the country’s total deaths to 1,017. The Ministry of Health reported on Saturday that the woman was unvaccinated; she died on December 10. With…

Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh on Saturday spearheaded the distribution of the government's one-off grant of $250,000 to severed sugar workers at the Enmore Estate on the East Coast of Demerara and the Wales Sugar Estate on the West Bank…

Police in the wee hours of Saturday arrested a man and seized a .40 Glock pistol and three matching rounds. Police said the ranks went to the 31-year-old man’s Company Road, Buxton, East Coast Demerara home at around 04:25hrs after a…

A 41-year-old supervisor attached to Kissoondyal Enterprise Inc. Rice Mill at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, was on Friday robbed some $3.4 million in cash. The money was intended to be payment for workers and rice farmers. Police…

Police have confirmed that the man who strangled his reputed wife to death on Friday night at Martyr's Ville, New Scheme, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, has succumbed after taking his own life. Police identified the man as 50-year-old…

Insisting that it was losing billions on an annual basis due to electricity theft, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) says it has begun phasing out the traditional prepaid meters, hundreds of which have been found to have been tampered with.…

Tragedy struck Friday afternoon at St. Ignatius Village, Central Rupununi when a minibus carrying a family of five erupted in flames. The family was from the village of Baitoon. Silvia Sebastian and Bernice Edwards and some of their…