Lieutenant Colonel Sean Welcome, one of five soldiers who perished in the line of duty while on a recent border mission, was on Friday laid to rest. With a military career spanning nearly three decades, Welcome contributed to Guyana in more ways than the Guyanese public even knew or appreciated,…
Chase Academic Foundation is rallying for Guyana in the ongoing KFC Schools’ Goodwill Football Series as they have managed to stay unbeaten alongside Jamaica’s Clarendon College and Trinidad’s St. Benedict’s College. Chase followed up their 5-2 win over St. Ignatius Secondary with a resounding 4-0 triumph over Bartica Secondary on…
Hardik Pandya will captain Mumbai Indians in IPL 2024, taking over from Rohit Sharma, who led the team through a decade of thrilling highs. Rohit, who led Mumbai to five IPL titles, is the joint-most-successful captain in the tournament’s history alongside Chennai Super Kings’ MS Dhoni. The leadership change comes…
Two men who reportedly stole a motorcycle died after they crashed the same motorcycle into a truck along the Diamond Access Road, East Bank Demerara. Dead are Ashton McCurdy and Mark Green, a labourer of Grove Housing Scheme. The Guyana Police Force on Friday said the crash occurred at about…
A popular Berbice businessman died Friday morning in an accident at Moleson Creek, Upper Corentyne, Berbice. Dead is Sahid Hamid, a contractor and businessman and the son of well-known businessman Imran Hamid, proprietor of Imran and Sons store in Rose Hall Town. The accident occurred just after dawn. Police sources…
Opposition Parliamentarian David Patterson has filed a lawsuit against the State claiming damages in excess of $100, 000, months after he was blocked from leaving Guyana through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). Patterson is claiming damages for breach of his fundamental right to freedom of movement and unspecified sums…
President Irfaan Ali Friday morning hailed Colonel Michael Azar Shahoud as a “soldier to the bone” and “the epitome of loyalty” to the country’s Army as friends, family and soldier paid their final respects at a moving funeral ceremony at the Brickdam Cathedral in Georgetown. Col. Shahoud, 45, and four…
A joint declaration has been issued by Guyana and Venezuela following a meeting of the two presidents. Significantly, they agreed that Guyana and Venezuela, directly or indirectly, will not threaten or use force against one another in any circumstances, including those consequential to any existing controversies between the two States….
By Kurt Campbell in St Vincent kurt@newsroom.gy After more than six hours and three rounds of meetings, the high-level dialogue between Presidents Irfaan Ali and Nicolas Maduro continues at the Argyle International Airport in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. In the first two rounds of talks, the presidents engaged separately…
Five men were on Thursday sentenced to death for the murders of four fishermen during a piracy attack in 2016. Leon Sammy of Number 75 Village, Ganesh Naidoo of Number 79 Village, Ramesh Singh of Liverpool Village, Ramchand Latchman and Stephon Leacock of Number 77 Village, Corentyne were sentenced by…
