A 16-year-old boy, identified as Isaiah Smith, who resided at Lot 100 Middle Road, La Penitence, Georgetown, was allegedly stabbed to death by a 45-year-old man on Monday afternoon. Police Headquarters reported that the fatal incident occurred at about 14:55hrs at Hogg Street and Independence Boulevard, Albouystown, Georgetown. According to a police report, two eyewitnesses-…

GUYANA’S premier trade fair and exhibition, GuyExpo, is set to make a big comeback in 2022, during the first week of December. The event, which was first held in 1995, had grown under the patronage of several tourism ministers including Michael Shree Chand, Geoffrey DaSilva, Manzoor Nadir and Manniram Prashad. What began as an activity…

The atmosphere in the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall at the weekend was electrifying as players competed in semi-final and final games for the GUMDAC Easter Badminton Tournament. Akili Haynes bested Tyrese Jeffery in an intense match for first place in the A-Division Men’s Singles. Haynes was victorious with the score being 21-12, 21-15. In the…

CLOSE to 70 days after the resignation of Joseph Harmon as Opposition Leader, this important constitutional post remains vacant, as members of the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) squabble among themselves. Harmon resigned as Opposition Leader on January 26 of this year, amid mounting pressure from his colleagues to do…

Ladies team captain, Nicolette Fernandes and Ashely Khalil secured victories at the ongoing senior Pan American Squash Championships in Guatemala. On Monday, Fernandes opened her account with an 11-8, 8-11, 11-2, 11-8 triumph over Colombia’s Lucia Bautista. She was scheduled to play her second game on Monday night. On Sunday, Khalil defeated Emma Turnbull of…

— Top Cop tells sergeants, charges them to forge and strengthen police, community relations ACTING Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken, on Monday, met with all sergeants of the Guyana Police Force and gave them a comprehensive charge and strict mandate to ‘serve and protect’ and to change the negative image and perception that members of…

Commissioner of Police (ag) Clifton Hicken told Sergeants of the Guyana Police Force to stop bullying and harassing the public as he charged the ranks to help change the negative image and perception that members of the public have of the Force. “We need to stop harassing and bullying members of the public, we need…

President Irfaan Ali has declared Friday 8th April as a national day of prayer and fasting and he is calling on all religious bodies to unite under the “One Guyana” banner and support the day of fasting and prayer. The day of Fasting and Prayers is being called at this time as three significant religious…

–for CARICOM to realise ‘enormous’ economic prosperity PRESIDENT Dr. Irfaan Ali has called regional integration a fundamental pillar of Guyana’s economic development while speaking at a virtual panel discussion on Monday. The event, organised by the Global Business Leadership Forum, was chaired by the Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA) Deodat Maharaj,…

Since 2015, oil giant ExxonMobil and its direct contractors have spent about US$600 million (or GY$125 billion) procuring goods and services from local suppliers, according to Head of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge. Routledge, in a video statement released to the local media on Monday, said that this sum was spent on over 880 local suppliers.…