February 7, 2022

The National Assembly on Monday approved $1.05 billion in the budgetary allocations for the Audit Office with the APNU+AFC opposition raising questions on the agency’s ability to scrutinise the government’s spending of oil revenue this…

Odingo Emmanuel called ‘Dingo’ was on Monday sentenced to serve 38 years, five months for raping a 36-year-old woman at the Imbaimadai Landing, Upper Mazaruni River in 2018. Emmanuel, 48, was sentenced by Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry…

Cricket West Indies (CWI) on Monday announced the West Indies Championship 2022 will start on Wednesday, February 9, marking the return of First-Class cricket in the region since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. CWI has unveiled the…

A sum of more than $4.1 billion ($4,161,996,000) has been approved for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) by the National Assembly during the consideration of the 2022 Budget Estimates on Monday. Importantly, of that amount, $783…

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) president, Steve Ninvalle, is receiving calls from a number of his equals from around the region, for the ‘Land of Many Waters’ to host this year’s Caribbean Boxing Championship. The competition,…

A sum of more than $1.85 billion ($1,852,411,000) has been approved for the Parliament Office by the National Assembly during the consideration of the 2022 Budget Estimates on Monday. Of that sum, $1.8 billion has been allocated for…

Two promising national Table Tennis players, Jonathan Van Lange and Colin Wong, will for the next year receive significant financial support from Beacon Café. Managing Director of the Waterloo Street business Ramdeo Kumar made an initial…

Pawnshop owner 24-year-old Carlos Waithe died in the wee hours of Monday after he was shot while attempting to stop a fight between a group of friends at Leopold Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown. The News Room understands that the young…

By Akeem Greene akeem@newsroom.gy Guyanese Olympian Chelsea Edghill did what was expected- that is come and conquer at the Senior National Table Tennis Championship. She did it in grand style by romping to an emphatic 4-0 (11-2,…

A sixty-two-year-old motorcyclist is in serious condition at the Suddie Hospital on the Essequibo Coast following a collision with a car on Sunday on the Golden Fleece public road. Hospitalised with serious head injuries is Kowsal…