By Kurt Campbell kurt@newsroom.gy After roughly a decade of financial and other support to help Guyana’s forest preservation and associated forest management ambitions, the European Union (EU) is shifting focus to support projects in the country’s health sector. Through its Global Gateway Initiative, and in a thrust to move…
Football’s lawmakers Ifab (International Football Association Board) are to trial sin-binning players and issuing blue cards, it will be announced on Friday. Sin-bins have been used at grassroots level for dissent, but their use could be extended to cynical fouls as part of a trial. A player would spend 10…
Four days into a planned two-week strike by teachers across the country, the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Thursday maintained that the industrial action was effective though they have not been able to even broker talks with the government. The Ministry of Education maintains that the strike and daily protests…
Command-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and President of Guyana, Dr Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced that there will be changes in the operation of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) in the coming weeks in order to meet the demands of the environment. And in doing, this he said key focus…
Investigators are probing the discovery of skeletal remains which were found near the BOSAI compound in Linden on Thursday. Reports are that the discovery was made around 08:00 hrs by a 52-year-old employee of BOSAI. The human remains were in a drain, which is situated at north-eastern side of BOSAI…
Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Guyana, Ambassador René Van Nes on Thursday said that a request was recently made by the Guyana Government for the EU Election Observer Mission to return for the November 2025 Regional and General Elections. The Ambassador said the request was oral but…
An unbeaten 10th-wicket stand of 17 between Raf MacMillan and Callum Vidler took Australia past Pakistan in a topsy-turvy second semi-final in Benoni to seal a date against India in Sunday’s final for the 2024 Men’s Under-19 World Cup title. Chasing only 180 after Tom Straker‘s 6-24 wrecked Pakistan in the first innings, Australia nearly…
ExxonMobil Guyana Limited alongside its coventurers, Hess and CNOOC, have so far been able to recover about US$19 billion out of the US $29 billion it spent in the prolific Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. This is according to the ExxonMobil Guyana President Alistair Routledge who spoke at a press conference…
Medals for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris will feature metal taken from the Eiffel Tower. Organisers unveiled the medals which have hexagon-shaped tokens forged out of scrap iron from the monument embedded in them. “It’s the opportunity for the athletes to bring back a piece of Paris…
An airline out of the Dominican Republic called Sky High Aviation will on February 18 begin operating three weekly flights between Guyana and the Dominican Republic. The announcement was made by the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Thursday. “This exciting new service will provide convenient and affordable travel options…
