April 14, 2023

Locals from all administrative regions will receive training to operate and fix medical equipment in hospitals and other health facilities across the country through a new programme launched on Friday. The programme is being executed by…

By Kurt Campbell Kurt@newsroom.gy For almost 60 years, Ramesh Shibsahai resided at Little Baiboo, Mahaica on the East Coast of Demerara; he has an established career as a cash crop farmer and has built a solid foundation for himself…

The investigation into the murder of Roma Dookeran, the overseas-based Guyanese, whose body was found at the Leguan foreshore last month is ongoing. Detectives had arrested two persons including a Pegasus Hotel taxi driver, who was last…

Two brothers on Friday appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court charged with the murder of 18-year-old Keon Byass, a labourer of Dukestown, Corriverton, Berbice. Rokeel Gordon, 21 and Zeikeel Gordon, 24, both labourers of…

EDYOU FM, the Ministry of Education’s radio station, is now the first radio station to serve the remote Indigenous community of Kaikan, Region Seven (Cuyuni- Mazaruni). It is expected that learners in this community will have greater…

By Vishani Ragobeer vishani@newsroom.gy The government promised Guyana’s regulatory framework for the nascent oil and gas sector will be up to par and on Thursday, Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo said an overhaul of the 1986…

A 17-year-old labourer of Abary Creek, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, is currently hospitalised at the New Amsterdam Hospital after he was stabbed in the abdomen by a man known to him. The News Room understands that Christopher Felix is…

A 24-year-old welder on Thursday walked out of the Demerara High Court a free man after a 12-member jury found him not guilty of raping an 11-year-old girl. Triston Telford was on trial before Justice Navindra Singh at the Demerara High…

Guyana’s burgeoning Cricket Carnival and growing tourism industry has fuelled an expansion of local entrepreneurial ventures and cyclist and businessman, Enzo Matthews is capitalising on the opportunities presented. Matthews is the owner…

By Akeem Greene akeem@newsroom.gy A series of unfortunate events struck the majority of the Guyana-based athletes that competed at the 50th CARIFTA Track and Field Championships last weekend in Nassau, Bahamas. What started with an…