Moeen Ali produced a remarkable all-round display to lead England to victory in the fourth Twenty20 in Barbados. Stand-in captain Moeen struck a brutal 63 from 28 balls as England posted an imposing 193-6. The all-rounder then took 2-28 in West Indies’ reply as the hosts fell 34 runs short. The series is perfectly poised…
PRIME Minister Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips’ call for the framework of international law to be the guide within South America has been adopted into the final communiqué of the Third Regular Summit of the Heads of State of the Forum for the Progress and Development of South America (PROSUR). At a meeting in Cartagena, Colombia,…
Deandra Dottin‘s career-best 150* went in vain as rain washed out the first ODI between South Africa and West Indies in Johannesburg with a result possible after only another less than three overs of play. The hosts were 87-5 in 17.4 overs while chasing a revised target of 204 in 29 overs before rain arrived…
By Vishnu Bisram THE Jamaica Rotary Club (of Queens, New York) has honoured cops from several South Queens precincts (Police Stations) last Wednesday at a special luncheon at Villa Russo catering hall in Richmond Hill. The event was sponsored by Indian Guyanese businessman, Jack Rassbeharry of Queens. Over one hundred individuals, comprising of cops and their families,…
Six families can now enjoy better living conditions having received keys to their new homes under the Ministry of Housing and Water/Central Housing and Planning Authority’s Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Programme (AHUAP). The homes are funded to the tune of $4 million each, by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and fall under the Core…
COLONEL Raul Jerrick of the Guyana Defence Force has successfully completed his Master of Arts in National Security Studies with focus on Counterterrorism Policy and Strategy at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California, USA. As a course requirement, Colonel Jerrick also successfully completed his thesis which examined the radicalisation of the Jamaat al…
Press Release by the Guyana Oil and Gas Energy Chamber The Guyana Oil and Gas Energy Chamber (GOGEC) welcomes the Guyana National Budget, reflecting the Government’s commitment to creating a progressive and equitable society for all Guyanese. GOGEC wishes to thank the Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh and his team, who tirelessly prepared and…
THE Attorney-General’s Chambers and Ministry of Legal Affairs, on Friday, received their first shipment of copies of the Consolidated Index 2021, which will be disseminated to key stakeholders in the coming days. The Government of Guyana in collaboration with the IMPACT Justice Project, University of West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill, Barbados, completed the updated Consolidated…
Minister of Education Priya Manickchand on Friday commissioned an Information Communications Technology (ICT) laboratory at the Redeemer Primary School in Georgetown. Minister Manickchand, in brief remarks, stated that the primary school is the first to be fully connected with 100 megabits of bandwidth and fibre optic cable. The Primary School is also the first to…
IN what has been described as a “historic” and “significant” development in Guyana’s education sector, the Ministry of Education (MoE), on Friday at the Redeemer Primary School, officially launched the Atlantic Reader Books One – Six series of reading and workbooks. The series, which will be used at primary schools across Guyana from grades one…
