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Chinese nationals rescued after Saffon Street building goes up in flames

Firefighters managed to contain a large fire in the wee hours of today at a Chinese supermarket located at Saffon and Sussex Streets, Georgetown,...

Finance Minister calls for increased concessional financing

Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh, using the platform of the 2021 United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Forum on Financing for Development, has...

Floodwater levels fluctuating in Kwakwani

As floodwater levels at Kwakwani in the Upper Berbice Region of Region 10 continue to fluctuate, some residents of Lamp Island who have been...

Nandlall seeks court order for President, Cabinet to resign

Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall has approached the court to compel the Cabinet, including President David Granger, to stop meeting and to resign. The proceedings...

Sophia man stabbed to death by reputed wife

  A 46-year-old man of 'E' Field Cummings Park, Sophia, Greater Georgetown was last night stabbed to death by his reputed wife. Darren Harris, a cook,...

Moruca children receive cleft lip repair surgeries through FFTP programme

Two young children from the hinterland regions of Guyana have received life-changing cleft lip repair surgeries, thanks to the support of Food for The...

Guyana records 48 imported Covid-19 cases since reopening borders

Guyana has recorded 48 imported cases of the novel coronavirus since the reopening of its borders late last year. “Since the reopening of the airports...

$200M Jaigobin Hotel opens at Anna Regina

An Essequibo Coast businessman, who already has a hotel located in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), today opened a brand-new location in the township of Anna...

Labourer remanded to prison for murder of ‘Sir Mars’  

Twenty-four-year-old Brian Richards of John Fernandes Squatting Area, Georgetown was earlier today remanded to prison for the murder of popular comedian, Kirwyn Mars. He appeared...

US Coast Guard vessel to patrol off Guyana’s coast

In keeping with efforts to increase maritime security in the Atlantic Ocean, the United States (US) Navy has sent a brand-new cutter vessel that...

Recent Articles

2-year-old-old among 3 injured after lorry crashes into concrete bridge

A two-year-old was among three persons injured after the motor lorry in which they were travelling crashed into a concrete bridge along the Glasgow...

8 illegal structures halt major infrastructure works in Linden – CH&PA

The Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority, Sherwyn Greaves, on Wednesday morning, went with a team on a fact-finding mission...

T&T Govt denies blocking importation of milk from Guyana

claims importer returned goods to DDL   The Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ministry had very strong words for Trinidad and Tobago’s (T&T) decision to...

Conciliation talks: Govt rejects GTU’s 20% across-the-board increase ultimatum

…says demand shocked Ministry, unreasonable The sudden ultimatum by the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) to demand that the Government pay all teachers a 20 per...

Fmr. PNC General Secretary, Oscar Clarke passes

Former General Secretary (GS) of the People's National Congress (PNC) reportedly died on Wednesday after complaining of feeling unwell. He died at a private...

GMSA urges T&T authorities to resolve ‘breach’ swiftly    

Full statement below: The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) has taken note of the recent denial of entry into the Republic of Trinidad and...

Guyanese exporters have been subjected to unfair treatment by T&T for decades – GOGEC

say latest development is blatant violation of free trade embodied in the Treaty of Chaguaramas The Guyana Oil and Gas Energy Chamber (GOGEC) has...

GCCI calls for removal of NTB following T&T’s refusal to import milk, water from...

Full statement below: The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce & Industry (GCCI) notes, with strong consternation, the attempts by Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) to frustrate the...

MoA procures 100 Vessel Monitoring Devices for fisheries sector  

The Agriculture Ministry through its Fisheries Department recently procured 100 Vessel Monitoring Devices (VMDs) as part of its monitoring strategy for artisanal fisheries in...

CARICOM Trade Ministers meet in Georgetown for 58th COTED

CARICOM Ministers with responsibility for trade began a two-day meeting on Tuesday, May 14 at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana. Minister of Trade and...