Sixteen athletes and three officials, accompanied by a Chef-de-Mission, will represent Guyana at the inaugural Caribbean Games, billed for June 29 to July 3 in Guadeloupe. Athletes from 3×3 Basketball, Athletics and Swimming will represent Guyana at the event, which caters to seven disciplines, the others being Netball, Judo, Cycling and Futsal. Notably, the Games,…
BARONESS Patricia Scotland has been re-elected as Commonwealth Secretary-General defeating Jamaica’s Kamina Johnson Smith during an election at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) confab held in Kigali, Rwanda, on Friday. Baroness Scotland received 27 votes while Kamina Johnson Smith received 24 votes. Born in Dominica and raised in the United Kingdom, Scotland had…
A total of 140 inmates from the Lusignan and Mazaruni prisons have graduated after completing training courses in various programmes aimed at preparing them for reintegration into society. The areas of training were agriculture, tailoring, animal husbandry, apiary culture, carpentry, joinery, literacy, art and craft, leather craft and culinary arts. During remarks at the graduation…
THE electoral fraud case involving former Region Four Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo; former PNC/R Chairperson, Volda Lawrence; coalition political activist, Carol Joseph-Smith and four others, was, on Friday, adjourned to July 15, 2022, for report. The trio, along with Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) employees Sherfern February, Enrique Livan, Denise Bobb-Cummings and Michelle Miller are before…
See below full statement issued by Ramps Logistics Guyana: Response to Articles on GRA matter On June 23rd 2022, we held a press conference highlighting that we were denied our Local Content Certificate. At this Press conference, we provided evidence that we complied with the Local Content Act, and we kindly asked the Local Content…
–authorities say WITH several infrastructural road projects taking place across the country, the government is currently considering the expansion of the East Coast Demerara (ECD) Railway Embankment Road to a four-lane highway. This was revealed on Friday, at the signing of a contract for the construction of the ECD – East Bank Demerara Road Link…
President Irfaan Ali on Saturday said that the answers to the energy, climate and food crises facing the Commonwealth – a 56-nation bloc of mostly former British territories – may lie within and it need not look at the developed world. “What the world needs now and what the Commonwealth needs now, is stability, bold,…
-thanks GPHC for the historic artificial insemination procedure AFTER 16 years of failed fertility treatments and constant doctor visits, Bibi and Zaheer Hidar, on Thursday evening welcomed their first child, a healthy baby girl, at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where doctors performed Guyana’s first artificial insemination procedure. Bibi, 39 of Bush Lot, West…
See full statement from the Ministry of Education below: Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, has begun to engage leaders in the religious community to address the issues of school dropouts and antisocial behaviours in the school environment. Over the last week, Minister Manickchand has met with religious leaders in the Christian and Islamic communities…
A US$106.4 million contract was on Friday signed for the construction of the first phase of the East Coast Demerara (ECD) to East Bank Demerara (EBD) road linkage project. At the signing ceremony which was held at the intersection of the Rupert Craig Highway and Ogle Road on the East Coast of Demerara, it was…
