THERE’S a lot going down this weekend, but nothing is going to be bigger that the Amazon Warrior matches at the Providence Stadium. It all started last night, when we faced the Jamaica...

THE children participating in local entertainer Simone Dowding’s drama workshop when school is out during the July/August holiday, will get an opportunity to showcase the skills they’ve learnt at...

FOLLOWING an impressive performance at the recently concluded Reggae Sumfest, dancehall artiste Tommy Lee Sparta is being signed by international star, Sean Kingston. The announcement was made on...

ALKALINE has denied ever visiting Vybz Kartel in prison to make peace and possibly record a collaboration. On Tuesday, rumours started floating around the Internet claiming that Alkaline...

THE Robotics team of young people, STEM Guyana, emerged on top of 165 countries at the end of the first day of the first Global Robotics Competition held on Monday, in Washington D.C. The Guyanese...

MINISTER of Public Telecommunications, Catherine Hughes is participating in the CANTO 33rd Annual Conference and Trade Exhibition in the Dominican Republic. According to a release, for ICT...

AS farms within sections of Region Nine remain under water, the regional authorities are tallying damages, which farmers within the Rupununi have incurred as a result of the floods. Regional...

--from Japan-Caribbean climate change partnership THE Ministry of the Presidency, through the Office of Climate Change, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), last...

A post-mortem on Chinese businessman, Liyan Jiang, 44, whose bound and gagged body was found in the lower flat of his Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo home, revealed that he died from strangulation and...

…say had no food supplies in 45 days …issue apology to Joint Services RESIDENTS of White Water Village, an Indigenous community close to the Venezuela border, are calling on the authorities to...

THE Linden police are continuing their search for a taxi driver who allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl on Saturday night. The child was a passenger of the taxi driver. According to E’ Division...

TWO unmasked gunmen reportedly descended on customers and staffers shortly before lunch at the Coffee Bean Café and Eatery located at Church Street, Georgetown and carted off an undisclosed amount...

ALMOST a month after being charged for giving false information to the police, Mark Tim was on Thursday again before the court, this time for allegedly having nearly three kilos of cannabis in his...

A 35-YEAR-OLD man was on Thursday charged with murder of a miner who was recently beaten to death with a spade at the Potaro Backdam, Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) during an argument. Naresh...

TWO men were on Wednesday jointly charged with the murder of 34-year-old Rawle Rodriguez, who was killed during a robbery at the Route 32 Minibus Park in January. Afabia Yankana and Akeem Hayman...

…fined $1.2M on drug trafficking charge CITY Magistrate, Sunil Scarce, on Wednesday sentenced a 40-year-old taxi driver to four years imprisonment for having five pounds of cannabis in his...

…Gaskin signals intention to appeal ATTORNEY General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams SC said the Chief Justice ruling on the Guyana Elections Commission chairmanship issue has upheld...

AFTER more than six years of legal battle, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of New Building Society (NBS), Maurice Arjoon will be compensated by the state-owned agency for wrongful dismissal by...

APPROXIMATELY $14M in vouchers are still to be accounted for by the Ministry of Indigenous People's Affairs while millions of dollars in equipment were procured without any evidence that contractual...

THE recently concluded Commission of Inquiry into the local education system has recommended a license system for teachers to improve the level of service they are rendering to the system. This...

REGION Five (Mahaica/Berbice) is slated to receive two new health centres designed and constructed in keeping with the concept of “smart medical facilities.” One centre will be constructed at...

IN observance of National Rehabilitation Week 2017, Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, on Wednesday pledged government’s support to the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre in helping to...

DURING the course of last week, staff of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) discovered ten vials of the pain medicine, pethidine missing from a cabinet. Reports are that the hospital...

SIXTY cervical cancer tests were among a range of tests conducted by a United States Embassy outreach in the mining town of Linden recently. According to the embassy , the Humanitarian Assistance...

CUBAN Ambassador to Guyana, Julio Cesar Gonzalez Marchante, described US President Donald Trump recent speech and directive as ill-advised, resulting in the roll-back of progress achieved over the...

THE United States will be looking to play a more active role in supporting the energy sector in the Caribbean by providing targeted technical support to countries with the capacity and interest in...

THE ECONOMIC potential of the creative arts industry in the Caribbean remains one which can transform regional economies which have been stagnant, Culture Minister of Barbados, Stephen Lashley, has...

Caribbean Airlines (CAL) have cancelled a number of flights on Monday due to several Caribbean countries being placed under a tropical storm warning. A release from the air carrier stated: “Due to...

- Russia has warned the US-led coalition fighting in Syria that it will view its aircraft as targets, after a Syrian military plane was shot down. The coalition said it had shot down the Syrian...

- Prime Minister Theresa May says the terror attack near a north London mosque is "every bit as sickening" as other recent ones to hit the UK. A man drove a van into worshippers close to the...

- President Donald Trump is being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller for possible obstruction of justice, US media reports say. They say senior intelligence officials will be...

- Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered a full public inquiry into the fire that engulfed a west London block of flats, killing at least 17 people. That figure is expected to rise, as fire chiefs...