See the full statement from the Guyana Police Force Below: On 2022-08-05 between 17:00 hrs and 18:30 hrs, the Commissioner of Police (ag), Mr. Clifton Hicken, resuscitated the Hinterland Intelligence Committee (HIC) by hosting a meeting in his Conference Room, Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, Georgetown. The meeting was primarily aimed at promoting a conducive atmosphere…
— Agriculture Ministry collaborating with EMBRAPA to test six varieties WITH much focus being placed on reducing Guyana’s and the Caribbean’s food import bill by 25 per cent by 2025, Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, is optimistic that with the introduction of new crops, wheat being one of many, the agriculture goal will be met. Mustapha,…
See full statement from the CARICOM Election Observation Mission At the invitation of the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) mounted a CARICOM Election Observation Mission (CEOM) to observe the conduct of the General Elections which were held in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis on 5 August 2022. The CEOM…
THE US Agency for International Development (USAID)/Eastern and Southern Caribbean (USAID) and !nnovate Guyana (!G) are elated to announce the return and evolution of the Economic Development Accelerator (EDA) programme, which will benefit more than 50 Guyanese agro-processors. According to a release, the EDA was designed in 2021 specifically to enhance commercially viable existing agro-processed…
A FIFTY-nine-year-old man lost his life after reportedly falling overboard at a pump station behind the Rose Hall Estate, East Canje, Berbice, Region Six. Dead is Aangraj Kumardeo Indrapal, called “Charles” of Lot 940 New Area, Canefield Settlement, East Canje. Daughter of the deceased, Roshnie Indrapaul, 28, said her father left home on Thursday around…
China has undisputed sovereignty over Taiwan Taiwan has belonged to China since ancient times. The earliest records of Taiwan in the world are in Chinese history books from 1,700 years ago. The Chinese were the first to develop Taiwan. As early as 230 A.D., Chinese ships arrived in Taiwan. Around 610 A.D., the coastal inhabitants…
WITH the expected traffic increase in September due to Guyana hosting its inaugural Cricket Carnival, the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) has already put measures in place to handle the increased traffic. This is according to Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Egbert Field, who said his agency is looking forward to…
It has been 12 years since cricket officially and formally made it to the USA, with a weekend of two T20Is between New Zealand and Sri Lanka. For various reasons, though, Florida hasn’t yet emerged as the cricket destination the administrators would have expected it to. This weekend’s two matches between West Indies and India…
IF anyone had doubts that the so-called Free Enterprise System is in a free-fall crisis that’s simply not free-for-all, just look at how the UN Secretary-General is condemning massive profit-making by the world’s major oil companies in the middle of the current world food and fuel crisis, how the world’s major currencies are tumbling over…
The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has promoted Assistant Technical Director and former senior men’s national team player Bryan Joseph to the position of Acting Technical Director, in recognition of his strong record of implementing results-driven youth development programmes across Guyana. Joseph has previously worked as GFF Youth Development Officer and coached various national youth teams.…
