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Friday, March 29, 2024

Piracy: WCD fishermen recount horror, call for greater Coast Guard protection

Piracy has plagued the high seas for a number of years with many seamen meeting a callous end as several of them have lost...

100 years after: IAC remembers arrival of last batch of Indian indentured labourers

The Indian Action Committee (IAC) has outlined a historical chronology- in commemoration- of the last batch of Indians who came to Guyana's shores 100...

Banks DIH donates over $4M to charities

Banks DIH Limited on Monday made its annual donation to charities which amounted to over $4 million. Representatives of the 25 charities that benefited pose...

Retired ambassador publishes analysis of Guyanese culture

Former Guyanese Ambassador Rudy Insanally on Friday evening officially launched his most recent work The Guyanese Culture – Fusion or Diffusion? This book...

UPDATE: English Sathya Sai Blues bhajan singer finds Guyana connection

…her ancestor was source of name for Buxton village Sathya Sai devotee Dana Gillipsie, who had adapted her singing of Blues to Bhajans after visiting...

Prince Harry arrives in Guyana for 3 days

Prince Harry, received quite a grand welcome to Guyana earlier today when he arrived at the Eugene F Correia airport. As he disembarked from the...

You are more than statistics, you are special says First Lady to teenage mothers

First Lady, Sandra Granger, yesterday, encouraged several teenage mothers to become the leaders of tomorrow, in her address at an opening ceremony of the...

Mother ecstatic as baby with brain exposed receives successful surgery

Following a successful corrective surgery in Suriname, two-year-old Emanie Melville returned to Guyana recently. Inews met up with his ecstatic mother, Felicia Melville who was...

IAC calls for assistance for victim of Corentyne high winds

In the wake of learning that uncommonly high winds, associated with a thunderstorm, adversely affected the village communities of NO. 19 and Warren, Lower...

Recent Articles

18 areas earmarked for new housing developments

The government has revealed a comprehensive strategy aimed at further reducing the backlog of house lots within the Ministry of Housing and Water’s database. Minister...

Legal icon Justice (rtd.) Désirée Bernard dies

Former Chancellor of the Judiciary of Guyana Justice Désirée Bernard has died. Justice Bernard’s biography is chronicled on the CCJ’s website. It states that she...

Traffic Advisory for Easter Monday

Traffic Advisory from the Guyana Police Force: Be informed that in on Monday 1st April, 2024 Easter activities will be celebrated country wide with an...

UK donates drone to GMCS for mangrove monitoring

A group of young indigenous girls and boys are being trained to champion conservation efforts in the Barima Mora Passage. They are being trained...

Counselling, other support for families of girls that died in Massara

The government has pledged to provide counselling and other support that may be necessary to the families of the three young girls who lost...

Current dry spell to persist until end of April, desist from lighting fires –...

Public Advisory from the Ministry of Home Affairs:  In recent developments, there has been a significant decrease in visibility attributed to a combination of ground...

Death of GDF rank: Truck driver says highway was dark, soldiers were not wearing...

See full statement from the Guyana Police Force:  Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at about 21:00 hrs last night (Wednesday) at Madewini,...

Texas-based Lindsayca to work on petrochemical plant, refinery & oil block in Guyana

Texas-based oil and gas firm Lindsayca has revealed that it will be doing critical work on three major local initiatives: a petrochemical plant, as...

GDF rank struck, killed by truck during annual walk

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sergeant was struck down and killed by a vehicle while participating in the Force’s annual walk. Dead is Sergeant Deslyn...

Guyana will aggressively pursue oil for national development – Pres Ali to BBC

  An interview between President Dr Irfaan Ali and Stephen Sackur, the host of BBC’s “HardTalk” show, saw the Head of State forced to defend...