Dear Editor, THE just-concluded meeting held between the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and the representatives of the APNU+AFC leave many questions and suspicion about the real motive and agenda of the latter. The APNU+AFC’s urgings to GECOM against holding elections without major reforms is merely one aspect of their hidden political agenda that must not…
RECENTLY, Guyanese have been complaining about the recent hike in the prices of basic commodities. They called on the authorities to do something about the steadily climbing prices. Some of the goods and services affected by these high prices include greens, flour, fertilizer, shipping and freight costs, oil, gasoline, and kerosene oil, to name a…
AT a time when the highest-ranking hemispheric health official, PAHO’s Director Dr. Clarissa Etienne is warning the Caribbean and Latin America against lifting COVID-19 restrictions too quickly, news that Guyana is trying to return to normal after two years of the ‘New COVID Normal’ was met with mixed responses at home and abroad. Europe and…
EARLIER this week, we learned that Guyana earned more than US$96 million in revenues from its most recent oil cargo sale, the highest amount yet since Guyana started producing and exporting in December 2019. This sale increases the country’s overall returns from Liza crude to more than US$719 million. For context, the same one million…
Report and Photography by Akeem Greene in Barbados akeem@newsroom.gy England hold all the cards heading into the final day of the second Apex Test at the Kensington Oval as they managed to extend their lead to 136, despite a gritty 160 by West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite. The visitors bowled out West Indies for 411…
THERE was a time in Guyana when social and political commentators, whether in print or voice, were few and far between. For three decades following Guyana’s independence, the then PNC dictatorial regime monitored and controlled what Guyanese should listen to and read in the media. However, during this same period, a few private and imported…
Guyana recorded two new COVID-19 cases on Saturday but the country’s total active cases stand at 157. The two new cases take the total number of confirmed cases since March 2020, to 63, 183. The new cases were recorded in the following regions; Region three (one case) and Region Four (one case). The total number…
A two-storey-wooden house was destroyed on Friday night by a fire suspected to be the work of arsonists. The owner of the house, Pushwattie Bridglall, 37 of Lot 10 No.71 Village, Upper Corentyne told the News Room that she rented the structure to Richard (only name given) while she lives next door. According to Bridglall,…
FORTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD cane-cutter, Warren Dennis, who is accused of brutally attacking a woman with a cutlass, has pleaded guilty to an attempted murder charge before a High Court Judge. Dennis was arraigned at the Demerara High Court before Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall on Thursday and admitted that on April 23, 2017, in the county of Demerara, he…
Tickets for the highly-anticipated Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) ‘Quarter Mile Return’ meet will go on sale next week (March 24) at venues across the country. The event, which is set for March 27 at the South Dakota drag strip, will be the club’s first drag race meet of the year. President Rameez Mohamed…
