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Officer in fatal shooting of Essequibo man under close arrest; nothing illegal found at...

The officer who pulled the trigger on a rifle which resulted in the death of 29-year-old Orin Boston of Dartmouth, Essequibo Coast in Region...

Real estate agent charged with threatening Minister’s life

A real estate agent was on Tuesday morning brought before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts charged for reportedly threatening the Junior Minister of Indigenous Peoples'...

Media giant Tony Cozier laid to rest

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Cricket media titan Tony Cozier was laid to rest here Friday, following a service at the Coral Ridge Memorial Gardens...

200 million women and girls live with female genital mutilation – U.N.

At least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation in 30 countries, according to a new statistical report published...

Family seeking help to locate missing Corentyne man

A Tain, Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) family is in a frantic search for a man who disappeared some two weeks ago. The missing man...

Thousands left stranded waiting for hours to cross Harbour Bridge

Chaos ensued for  hours this evening at the Demerara Harbour Bridge where passengers and commuters were left stranded reportedly as a result of an...

Appeal Court begins hearing appeal filed by woman who poisoned children

The Court of Appeal of Guyana will today commence hearing the appeal of a woman serving a sentence of 98 years for killing her...

Pensioner killed by speeding car while using pedestrian crossing

A pensioner was on Tuesday morning killed after she was struck down while using a pedestrian crossing at Nigg Public Road, Corentyne Berbice. Dead...

Update: Cevons’ Waste employees nabbed attempting to smuggle contraband into Lusignan Prison

Three workers attached to Cevons Waste Management were taken into police custody after attempting to smuggle contraband into the Lusignan Prison on Thursday morning. This...

3 more Covid-19 deaths; 74 new cases

Three more persons who were infected with the novel coronavirus have died, taking the death toll to 518. The latest fatalities are a 38-year-old man,...

Recent Articles

Guyana to champion forest conservation at upcoming G20 Summit – Jagdeo

Guyana has been invited to attend the upcoming Group of Twenty (G20) Summit in Brasilia, Brazil in October, and will champion forest conservation and...

Power ship reaches maximum capacity of 36MW – GPL

Over the weekend, the power ship stationed at Everton, East Bank Berbice incrementally increased its generation output to 35 megawatts to the Demerara-Berbice Interconnected...

Govt makes 2nd NRF withdrawal for 2024 to the tune of US$300 million 

See full statement from the Ministry of Finance:  Pursuant to the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Act 2021, as amended by the Fiscal Enactments (Amendment) Act...

Construction of US$35M Mackenzie-Wismar Bridge to begin in August

Traffic congestion and long delays will soon be things of the past for commuters using the Mackenzie-Wismar Bridge, as construction of a new US$35...

Body of missing pensioner found in Essequibo River

See full statement from the Guyana Police Force:  Police in Regional Division #7 are investigating a report of suspected drowning of Philistine Franci called ‘PI’,...

Cyclist hospitalised after Sheriff Street Roundabout ‘hit and run’ accident

See full statement from the Guyana Police Force:  Police in Regional Division 4A are investigating a report of a hit and run serious accident which...

Pedestrian dies after being struck down by truck at Enmore

See full statement from the Guyana Police Force:  Police in Regional Division 4C are investigating a report of a fatal accident which occurred on Sunday...

PM Phillips Commends CIUG for a Decade of Chinese Cultural Exchange at 10th Anniversary

Prime Minister Brigadier (Ret’d), the Honourable Mark Phillips, praised the Confucius Institute at the University of Guyana (CIUG) for its outstanding achievements in fostering...

GPHC receives modern devices to facilitate better treatment of persons with kidney diseases

Through a collaborative effort between the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), and Boston Scientific, several LithoVue scopes were...

Work on sentencing guidelines nearing completion – AG

The government is close to completing work on sentencing guidelines, a project that has been funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-funded ‘Support for...