One of Guyana’s greatest historians and educators, Sister Mary Noel Menezes, affectionately called Sister Menezes has passed away at the age of 95. Sr Menezes was a Roman Catholic nun belonging to the Order of the Sisters of Mercy. A trained historian, Sr Menezes’s pioneered work in Indigenous and Portuguese history. Sr Menezes, who held…

MEMBERS of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Board of Directors, the Public Accountability and Oversight Committee (PAOC), and the Investment Committee were officially appointed by President, Dr. Irfaan Ali at ceremony at the Office of the President (OP) on Tuesday. The NRF Board consists of five members, the PAOC nine members, and the Investment Committee…

Tabraiz Shamsi will miss the men’s Hundred final to play for Guyana Amazon Warriors in the CPL, in the latest blow to a competition that will be short on international quality in the knockout stages. Shamsi, the South African left-arm wrist-spinner, has taken five wickets in his six appearances in the Hundred this season, playing for…

The Government through the Attorney General Anil Nandlall, has asked the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to hand over all documents supplied by A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) in the support of its claims that the Elections were marred as a result of electoral fraud. Throughout the course of the National…

See the full statement from the Ministry of Finance below:   Senior Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh today met with the incoming members of the Income Tax Board of Review, the Value Added Tax (VAT) Board of Review as well as the Customs Tariff Tribunal at the Ministry of Finance. These Boards and the Tribunal…

See the full statement from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) below: The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is once again in receipt of information that persons purporting to be employees of this Commission have been visiting homes seeking information about data in the Preliminary List of Electors (PLE). In this regard, it must be categorically stated…

Double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah was narrowly beaten by American Sha’Carri Richardson in the Women’s 100m at the Luzern World Athletics Continental Tour-Silver Meet in Switzerland on Tuesday. In -2.0 second winds, Thompson-Herah ran 11.30 to narrowly finish behind Richardson (11.29). The USA’s Celera Barnes ran 11.40 for third. Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah in action (Photo:…

A total of 23 persons were infected with the COVID-19 disease after another 485 tests were done in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health’s daily COVID-19 dashboard reported on Tuesday. With these new infections, the overall number of cases increased to 71, 005. The new cases were recorded in Region Two (two cases),…

Female ranks of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) are now given the opportunity to serve at border posts throughout the country, Chief of Staff Brigadier Godfrey Bess said on Tuesday. With more than 50 per cent rotating to the borders in the last year, the female ranks were deployed in Regions One and Nine. “As…

Chairman of the Coordinating Council of the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly – Guyana (IDPADA-G), Vincent Alexander is demanding a public apology and $50M in compensation from Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo for allegedly defaming his character. In a letter to the Vice President on August 24, 2022, Mr. Alexander, through his Attorney…