GUYANESE are being urged to apply for scholarships that are available under the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) schemes of the Government of India for the academic year 2022/2023. The deadline for submission of applications is April 30, 2022. Nine scholarships are available under the Commonwealth Scholarship Plan, while two will be offered under…
At this stage, the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) First-Division Two-Day title looks set to stay at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) as the hosts are in full control of the final against Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) in Queenstown. The day belonged to opener Trevon Griffith who blasted GCC’s bowlers to all parts of the ground…
-Guyanese to benefit from training in welding and fabrication THE Board of Industrial Training (BIT), on Friday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with local construction company, GAICO Construction and overseas-based businesses, Hargrove and Myers Companies, for the international certified training of Guyanese in the areas of welding and fabrication. The agreement was signed on…
KIAN Jabour, General Secretary of A New and United Guyana, was, on Friday, arraigned before City Magistrate Leron Daly for allegedly assaulting a woman and was released on $20, 000 bail. Jabour, an entrepreneur, appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and pleaded not guilty to the charge. Guyana Chronicle was unable to get the particulars…
MINISTER of State for Foreign Affairs and Member of the Council of the Ministers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir will visit Guyana today. A press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said over the last 18 months, Guyana and Saudi Arabia have intensified their collaboration, and…
PRIME Minister, Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips, on Friday, presented a telecommunications licence to a new local telecommunications provider, Green Gibraltar. During a simple ceremony in the boardroom of the Prime Minister’s Office, the senior government official said that he was happy to welcome the local company and that it is his hope that the increased…
–Guyanese flock open day at Energy Expo WANTING to learn more about Guyana’s oil and gas industry and its stakeholders, scores of young Guyanese flocked the Marriott Hotel for an open-day event on Friday as the curtains came down on the 2022 International Energy Conference and Expo. “We are basically here to educate ourselves,” Queen’s…
— GKB to retain, train workers to work at new oil field service centre AGRICULTURE Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, has assured workers at the Enmore Packaging Facility that they will retain their jobs during a meeting with them on the future of the facility on Friday. Guysons K+B Industries (GKB) had entered into an agreement with…
The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has shortlisted seven players for the Senior Caribbean Table Tennis Championship slated for March 1-9 in Cuba. Among those set to represent Guyana at the Championship are Olympian Chelsea Edghill and four-time national Men’s champion, Christopher Franklin. The other members of the team are Shemar Britton, Jonathan Van Lange,…
CONVICTED rapist, Calvin Ramcharran, had his 23-year prison sentence reduced to 12 years by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday. In 2015, a 12-member jury had found the 28-year-old guilty of the rape and brutal assault of a woman at a party in Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara (EBD) on July 22, 2012. At…
