Amid loud protests from residents of the East Coast Demerara village of Golden Grove this morning, Acting Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken visited the home of the 25-year-old man who was shot dead by the Police last Friday in Haslington. The Commissioner met with the mother and other relatives of Quindon Bacchus and expressed his sympathy…

Trinidad and Tobago earned their first win of the Cricket West Indies CG United Women’s T20 Blaze on Saturday night against Leeward Islands at the National Stadium, Providence. Being sent in to bat first in the third round contest, Trinidad and Tobago were staring a batting collapse head on. At one stage they were 36-5,…

Scintillating centuries from Joe Root and Ollie Pope kept England in the second Test with New Zealand on a riotous third day at Trent Bridge. Root, in form far beyond anyone else in the world, is 163 not out, while Pope vindicated his selection at number three with 145. After Alex Lees fell for 67,…

An IPL game is now worth a record INR 105 crore (USD 13.44 million) making it- in terms of value per match- the second-most lucrative sporting product in the entire world, behind only the NFL (USD 35.07 million*). This figure may actually rise considering the e-auction for the T20 tournament’s media rights, which began on…

Pakistan’s lower middle-order batting emerged successful from a stern test to help the home side win the third One-Day International by 53 runs on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern Method and sweep the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League series against the West Indies by 3-0 on Sunday. In front of another packed to capacity crowd on…

A 28-year-old man from East La Penitence, Georgetown was arrested Sunday morning at an unfinished house at Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara with over 1, 000 grams of marijuana. Police Headquarters, in a statement, noted that at about 09:00 hrs, ranks went to Den Amstel where contact was made with the 28-year-old who was found…

Police on Saturday conducted an intelligence-led operation at an abandoned Chinese supermarket located at Bagotville junction, West Bank Demerara where a quantity of marijuana was found. In a statement on Sunday, the police detailed that at about15:00 hrs a search was conducted on a 36-year-old gold miner and he was found with three transparent zip…

Please see full statement from the Ministry of Finance below: (June 9, 2022) Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh, today paid tribute to former Queen’s College Deputy Headmistress Miss Esther Cecelia Waveney Rawlins at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Brickdam and Camp Streets during…

The Ministry of Health on Sunday reported 33 new COVID-19 cases from 786 tests, taking the total number of confirmed cases since March 2020 to, 65,892. The new cases were recorded in Region Two (eight cases), Region Three (four cases), Region Four (19 cases) and Region Six (two cases). There are two patients in the…

The Guyana Police Force on Sunday said it intends to send a file to the Police Complaints Authority on Monday, requesting that a thorough investigation be conducted into the shooting death of Quindon Bacchus which occured at Haslington, East Coast Demerara on Friday last. The file will be sent to the Chairman of the Police…