February 18, 2022

Forty persons who worked at the Enmore sugar packaging plant will be trained and hired by investors who will take over the plant and convert it into a machine shop with an adjacent pipe yard, it was announced Friday. The venture will…

By Kurt Campbell kurt@newsroom.gy Just over a month after the government successfully championed the Local Content Bill, the International Energy Conference and Expo, which concluded Friday at the Marriott Hotel in Georgetown, has…

Prime Minister, Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips presented a telecommunications licence this afternoon to a new local telecommunications provider, Green Gibraltar. During a simple ceremony in the boardroom of the Prime Minister's Office,…

E-Networks Inc, Guyana’s leading provider of digital cable television, internet, information technology and media services, has pledged its support to this year’s Rawle Toney 3X3 Classic, which will bounce off on Saturday evening from…

Five COVID-19 deaths were recorded between February 16 and 18, the Ministry of Health reported on Friday. The country’s death toll has now increased 1, 208. This also means that 37 persons have died for February. The details on the…

Party promoters are being urged to seek guidance from the National COVID-19 Task Force when planning for events for the upcoming Mashramani season. Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony reminded that while the curfew has been lifted, all…

Barbados Pride completed a 10-wicket win over Jamaica Scorpions to remain unbeaten in the Regional Four-Day Championship on Friday at the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados. Set a target of 41 in the dying stages of the final day,…

Lloyd Junior Robinson, a Guyanese attorney-at-law with a passion for the oil and gas sector, was admitted to the local bar on Friday. Robinson’s petition to practice law was presented before Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Yonette…

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday reduced the 23-year jail sentence of convicted rapist Calvin Ramcharran to a term of 12 years. In 2015, a 12-member jury found Ramcharran guilty for the rape and brutal assault that was…

Several Guyanese companies are working together to create ready-for-export timber houses that are built primarily from local products. Rafeek Khan, the Head of DuraVilla Homes- the company selling these houses - says that the local…