February 24, 2023

Guyana wants to build its own oil refinery and Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Energy Minister Stuart Young believes that this does not place the two countries in competition with each other despite Trinidad’s own interest in finding a new…

Delroy Julius Seaforth, of New Jersey, United States of America, who was nabbed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) with 12 rolled joints, was on Friday fined $30,000 and ordered to complete three days of community service.…

Chaterpaul Singh, called “Dutchie”, a self-confessed drug dealer, was on Friday sentenced to serve four years imprisonment and fined $1.3 million for trafficking cannabis. The charge was withdrawn against Anesia Isfehani, 24, of Crown…

Five of the eight persons who are wanted by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) for money laundering and other offences have since surrendered. Attorney Bernard DaSilva on Friday confirmed that he will be turning in Melicia Adella…

Since 2000 the suicide mortality rate has been increasing in the Americas, a recent study by the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) has found. It highlighted that increasing employment programmes and services and access to…

Trade between Guyana and India tripled at the end of last year, when compared to the volume of trade recorded at the end of 2021, according to India’s President Droupadi Murmu. President Murmu met with Guyana’s Vice-President Dr. Bharrat…

Inclement weather in the county of Berbice has forced the Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Racing Committee to shift the ‘Opening Day Stakes’ to March 5 at the Rising Sun Turf Club, West Coast Berbice. The season-opening race was initially…

Two schools in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), the Schepmoed Primary School and the Lighttown Primary/ Nursery School, are now powered by solar energy following interventions from the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA). According to a…

In a bid to play his part in the up-skilling of young people, Steven Jacobs through his business, Jacobs Jewellery & Pawn Shop, will soon develop a school to teach the craft of making jewellery. The school is expected to be done with…

To improve and increase their production in the agriculture sector, farmers from ten communities along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway on Wednesday received $6M in equipment from the Ministry of Agriculture. The contribution is in keeping…