Red Bull’s Max Verstappen drove an outstanding race to win the Hungarian Grand Prix from 10th on the grid despite a spin costing the lead. Verstappen passed title rival Charles Leclerc twice raising fresh questions about Ferrari’s race operations. Red Bull’s pit strategy also vaulted Verstappen ahead of pole-sitter George Russell, who lost out on…
A dismal batting display saw a pitiful England suffer a heavy 90-run defeat in the deciding Twenty20 against South Africa to lose the series 2-1. Chasing 192 to win at the Ageas Bowl, England were blunt with the bat, going 55 balls without hitting a boundary at one stage, before being dismissed for 101 in…
Badminton runs in the blood for the Ramdhani family, represented at Birmingham 2022 by Narayan and Priyanna Ramdhani, a brother-sister team competing for South American nation Guyana. Narayan, 24, made his Commonwealth Games bow at Gold Coast 2018, and now Guyana have earned a second berth, allowing his younger sister to join him at B2022.…
A Teacher from Rose Hall Town, East Berbice, Corentyne is now dead after he lost control of the vehicle he was driving and crashed along the Albion/Chesney Public Road. Dead is Sydney Cort. Traffic Officer, Assistant Superintendent Nyron Hassanin told the News Room that the accident occurred sometime around 1:40 hrs on Sunday. He said…
Efforts to evade masked men who were seemingly waiting to carry out a heist were unsuccessful on Saturday for a 46-year-old businesswoman of Proctor Road, Kara-Kara, Linden. In a statement, Police Headquarters noted that at about 19:55 hours two unidentifiable males, one armed with a gun and the other with a knife, relieved the businesswoman of…
Another 15 people are now infected with the disease COVID-19, according to the Ministry of Health’s daily COVID-19 dashboard issued on Sunday. With these new cases, the total number of infections recorded in Guyana since March 2020 has increased to 69,807. The new cases were recorded in Region Two (seven cases), Region Three (one case),…
In the next two years, Guyana will be handed a €149 million Specialised Paediatric and Maternal Hospital to be designed, built and equipped by an Austrian firm, Vamed Engineering, and financed by the United Kingdom’s export credit agency – UK Export Finance (UKEF). To be constructed on former sugar estate lands, the sod was turned…
THE Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), during its 2022 International Conference held on July 18, 2022, in Chicago, awarded five legacy awards, recognising individuals who have made significant contributions to the internal audit profession over their careers. Well-known Guyanese internal audit leader, Lal Balkaran, received the Institute’s Bradford Cadmus Memorial Award which is granted in…
–facility to benefit 10,000 households IN keeping with its commitment to achieve 90 per cent provision of treated water across the coastland, the government is set to establish a massive US$8 million water-treatment plant at Bachelor’s Adventure, on the East Coast of Demerara. Plans for this massive project were outlined by Minister of Housing and…
MINISTER within the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar on Saturday joined the Kanhai family for the opening of their new venture, PK’s Super Clean Laundromat, at Cornelia Ida on the West Coast of Demerara. According to a press release that was posted on Minister Indar’s Facebook page, the Kanhais saw a niche for this…
