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CANU alerted as Guyana-registered vessel busted with cocaine in Atlantic Ocean

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) is playing a role in a major international investigation following the recent cocaine bust in the Atlantic Ocean on...

CJIA gives passengers Emancipation Day welcome

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) yesterday welcomed passengers to the sweet sounds of African drums, and traditional African dishes in keeping with the...

Cutlass-wielding man storms primary school in Berbice to attack parent

A cutlass-wielding man on Monday morning stormed his way into the Bohemia Primary School in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) with the intention of attacking...

Pay electricity bill – PM to delinquent Lethem residents

Prime Minister, Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips, said that the Lethem Power Company (LPC) will not be raising its rates for electricity despite a consistent...

Mash vendors urged to prepay for temporary power supply

- As the country prepares to celebrate 44 years as a Republic on February23, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is inviting all...

Months later, probe still ongoing into murder of Canada-based Guyanese woman

More than three months later, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) is still investigating the circumstances surrounding the murder of Canada-based Guyanese woman, 68-year-old Roma...

AG applies for stay of CJ ruling on removal of Parliamentary Secretaries

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has applied to the Guyana Court of Appeal for a stay of a judgement handed down by Chief Justice Roxane...

11-Y-O drowns in canal at De Kendren

An 11-year-old boy drowned on Friday afternoon while swimming in a canal near his West Coast Demerara home. Dead is Akon Richards, a student, of...

Berbice taxi driver, passengers robbed by armed bandits

Police in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) are investigating an armed robbery perpetrated on a taxi driver and two passengers in which millions of dollars...

$50M new well commissioned in Wakenaam

President Dr Irfaan Ali assured the people of Wakenaam, Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), during a visit on Monday to commission a new well,...

Recent Articles

Essequibo shopkeeper busted with cocaine, ganja

A 47-year-old shopkeeper of Dartmouth Village Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) was on Wednesday taken into custody following the discovery of a quantity of...

Guyanese among 2 killed in upstate NY head-on collision

A Guyanese woman was among two killed in a head-on crash in White Creek, upstate New York. Dead are 39-year-old Shumeka Burgan-Mentor formerly of Timehri,...

Taxi driver busted with 22kg ganja gets 4 years, fine $19.8M

Fifty-three-year-old Eusi Wilson, a taxi driver who was interception with 22 kilograms of cannabis in his motorcar on April 21, 2024, along High Street,...

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...