Ranks from Regional Police Division 8 on Friday found 2,020 grammes of cannabis in an abandoned yard at Mahdia Landing/Arcade, Region Eight. Police Headquarters on Saturday said a raid was conducted in  the area between 14:30 hrs and 16:00 hrs. During the search in an unfenced yard which contained several…

Oneil Melbourne, a 26-year-old resident from La Grange, West Bank Demerara, who was previously sentenced to jail in absentia in 2016, was on Friday arrested by Police. According to the Guyana Police Force, the man was arrested by Corporal Benjamin of Kaikan Police Station in Region Seven. The Police said…

President Dr Irfaan Ali, in a statement to mark the fourth year since the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections, reaffirmed his commitment to peace and stability in the country. The Head-of-State in a video uploaded to Facebook on Saturday reminded that the 2020 General and Regional Elections and…

It was a night filled with Guyanese pride as the awards for the Guyana Prize for Literature were handed over to recipients but jurors who selected the winners say more support for new writers is needed. Literary enthusiasts gathered at the National Cultural Centre on Friday evening for the event….

Read full statement from A New and United Guyana (ANUG) below: On 2nd March, 2020, A New and United Guyana (ANUG), The Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) and The New Movement (TNM) executed a Memorandum of Understanding, agreeing to merge the votes earned by them if sufficient to take a…

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen sent a chilling message to his Formula 1 rivals with a crushing victory in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. He brushed off the controversy surrounding his team principal Christian Horner to dominate after a brief challenge at the start from Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. Verstappen led team-mate…

Josiah Cossiah, who designed and built an American Sign Language translator glove, recently received the Best Innovative Project award from the University of Guyana (UG). According to a UG press release, Cossiah, who read for a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and recently graduated from the university’s Faculty of…

Guyana and the Dominican Republic (DR) established bilateral relations in October 1970 but in the last year, there has been a ramping up of country-to-country collaboration. So much so that 10 cooperation agreements were signed in the last year alone. There were also reciprocal presidential visits, the opening of an…

Popular Guyanese journalist Michael Jordan, known for his crime reporting at Kaieteur News, was Friday night among winners of the Guyana Prize for Literature. Jordan won the fiction category with his book “The Girl in the Pink Pleated Skirt”. First Prize for Non-fiction went to Etherine G H Adams with…

A 39-year-old miner/shopowner and a cook were arrested on Thursday following the discovery of 185 grams of cannabis in their Mango Landing, Region Eight house. The suspects are Martin Graham Mittelholzer and Dianne Abrams. Police Headquarters in a statement said the raid was conducted by ranks from the Mango Landing…