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First Lady, Minister Hughes tell girls ‘ICT is the future’

With a view to women reaching the highest pinnacle, First Lady, Mrs Sandra Granger today urged women and girls to develop their capacity in...

DPP confirms charges against Gov’t Ministers discontinued

Just days after the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) filed charges against the Ministers of Finance, Winston Jordan, Infrastructure, David Patterson and Public Service, Dr...

Couple charged with trafficking ecstasy

A 34-year-old sales representative, Lonsdale Hope and his 27-year-old wife Shelly Ann Gilgeous, today appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates'...

Good Intent man who slit his throat after murdering lover succumbs

Several hours after reportedly murdering his lover in his Good Intent, West Bank Demerara home, 40-year-old Nigel Glasgow died from his injures he sustained...

Oil & Gas: Hess acquires 15% interest in Kaieteur Block from ExxonMobil

Hess Corporation today announced that its subsidiary, Hess Guyana (Block B) Exploration Limited, has reached an agreement with Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited...

Body found in Stewartville trench was strangled before being left to drown- PME

A post mortem examination (PME) has revealed that the man whose body was found floating in a trench at Stewartville, West Coast Demerara on...

Task force set up for Bauxite workers affected by Rusal sanctions

The coalition Government has established a task force to ensure workers of the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI) are not adversely affected by...

US based philanthropist pumps $80M into state-of-the-art research centre at UG

The name Jay and Sylvia Sobhraj Centre for Behavioral Studies and Research Centre will soon be emblazoned on a state-of-the-art facility at the University...

Gov’t making formal request for review of private charges against 3 Ministers- Williams

Government will be moving to formally request a review of the private criminal charges recently brought against three senior Ministers in the coalition Government...

Carpet thief pleads for freedom, fined $25,000

A man who admitted to stealing a carpet asked City Magistrate, Fabayo Azore to set him free when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’...

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...