Kensington Oval to turn blue for prostate cancer awareness
KENSINGTON Oval will turn blue on Wednesday, 16 September as the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) marks a special fundraising day for the Sir Clive Lloyd Health Care Foundation, which supports the fight against prostate cancer, coinciding with the eliminator match between home side Barbados Tridents and Jamaica Kingsmen. Patrons attending the eliminator, which […]
Bowling claims Promotech NTFGL Tour #3 opener
CHET Bowling emerged victorious at the Lusignan Golf Club’s National Top Flight Golf League (NTFGL) Tour #3 on Sunday, September 13, after a competitive day of golf that attracted 37 players to the club’s challenging course. Following the successful staging of Tour #2, the league continued its competitive run with the third leg of […]
BCB/Cardiology Services Inc Under 21 Tournament…Port Mourant holds nerves to edge RH Canje to clinch title
THE historic Port Mourant Cricket Club held their nerves on Sunday last to defeat arch rivals Rose Hall Community Centre Cricket Club by two wickets to emerge as the champions of the Berbice Cricket Board Under 21 tournament. Playing in front of a sizeable crowd at the Port Mourant Ground, the home team required 13 […]
GHB president commends Old Fort’s ‘Fridays 5s’
PRESIDENT of the Guyana Hockey Board Phillip Fernandes has lauded the 5’s hockey tournament organized by the Old Fort Hockey Club. The club over the weekend concluded action in a several week-long 5’s hockey competition, which featured Pepsi Hikers, GCC, and the Saints hockey teams in the U17, Women, and senior Men’s divisions competing […]
Over 156,000 new jobs, unemployment falls to 6.2% — Mid-Year Report
GUYANA’S labour force grew between 2020 and 2025, while unemployment fell sharply, as the country’s rapidly expanding economy brought more people into work. The labour force is up 47.8 per cent from the first quarter of 2020, according to figures from the Bureau of Statistics published in the government’s 2026 Mid-Year Report. Over the same […]
Guyanese secure US$466.2M in ‘local content earnings’ –during first half of 2026
GUYANESE businesses earned an estimated US$466.2 million in the first half of 2026 through procurement in the goods and services sectors that Guyana’s Local Content Act reserves for local participation within the oil and gas industry. This was outlined in the Ministry of Finance’s Mid-Year Report which was released on Monday. According to the report, […]
Small, medium-scale miners lead surge in gold production, declarations — subsector grows 11.3%, exports climb to US$826.2M
GUYANA’S gold mining subsector expanded by an estimated 11.3 percent in the first half of 2026, according to the Mid-Year Report of 2026. The record-high global prices pushed gold export earnings up by US$269.8 million to US$826.2 million over the same period. Total gold declarations reached 232,287 troy ounces in the first half of the […]
Guyana’s livestock industry continues to soar –with targeted investment, Mid-Year Report highlights
GUYANA’S livestock subsector expanded by an estimated 17.5 percent in the first half of 2026, according to the Mid-Year Report of 2026. According to the report produced by the Ministry of Finance, poultry meat, egg and pork production all posted double-digit growth. Poultry meat output rose 20.9 percent, the report states, helped by wider […]
Massive overhaul of power grid advances as outages remain ‘unacceptable’— President Ali
–local power demand growing five times faster than regional average, report finds PRESIDENT Dr. Irfaan Ali on Monday called the scale and frequency of Guyana’s recent ‘blackouts’ unacceptable, citing a new Inter Energy assessment that found electricity demand is growing nearly five times faster than the regional average, even as billions of dollars are being […]
Massive relief package cushions effects of rising prices
–supports families, Mid-Year Report shows THE government has moved on multiple fronts this year to contain rising prices and cushion households from their impact, according to its Mid-Year Report 2026. The response combines direct price controls, record cash transfers, and targeted investment in food production, which is considered the most extensive cost-of-living package the country […]
