The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) has sent the male 4x100m team to French Guiana in a bid to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The team, which departed on Monday, comprises Emanuel Archibald, Shemar Horatio, Akeem Stewart, Noelex Holder, Jaheel Cornette and Keiron DeSouza. According to AAG’s General…
Cricket West Indies has announced that this year’s Super50 will likely return to Trinidad and Tobago from October to November, and Guyana could potentially host the finals. Director of Cricket Miles Bascombe explained on Monday that the success of hosting the 2023 tournament in the Twin Island Republic prompted the…
By Avenash Ramzan avenash@newsroom.gy It is an established norm in sport that you win some, you lose some! On Monday, in the second round of the Guyana Cricket Board’s Under-19 Female Inter-county T20 competition, the success of Berbice was recorded in the annals of history. That fact cannot be argued….
Orin Younge, the 36-year-old security officer who was nabbed with AK-47 ammunition after Police engaged him on a domestic violence report, was sentenced to two years imprisonment on Monday. Police Headquarters reported that Younge, who is also known as Orin Matthews, was caught with 15 live AK-47 ammunition rounds at…
Twenty families from Region Nine recently received keys to their new homes, marking a notable improvement in their quality of life. Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, handed over the homes, which are the first batch constructed under the Ministry’s Hinterland Housing Programme in the region. Accompanying the Minister…
[Nation News] – A 51-year-old Guyanese man identified as Andell Mc Garrell fell to his death while working on a construction site Monday morning in Barbados. Mc Garrell would have celebrated his 52nd birthday a month from today on May 09, 2024. Police said the incident occurred at Apes Hill,…
Members of Parliament (MPs) who sit on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have raised concerns with public officials who are made to act in positions for prolonged periods, in breach of the public sector rules. The matter came up during a review of the Auditor General’s report on Region Two…
See below full statement: The Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana takes notice that the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela made a submission today at the International Court of Justice in keeping with the Court’s stipulated timeline for the receipt of Venezuela’s Counter Memorial on the merits…
By Akeem Greene akeem@newsroom.gy Budding fast-bowling talent Shamar Joseph will be considered for the West Indies’ selection for the World T20, which the Caribbean co-hosts alongside the United States of America from June 1-29. Several former players and pundits have called for Joseph’s selection to the squad despite his limited…
[Reuters] – Guyana’s efforts to use its natural gas resources to fuel a power plant that would slash the South American nation’s energy costs have snagged on construction delays and threaten to curtail the rising oil hotspot‘s revenue this year by about $1 billion. The $1.9 billion gas-to-power project, Guyana’s…
