Rain has continued to affect the Dave West Indian Imports Under-15 inter-county 50-over tournament, with the entire third and final preliminary round being wiped out on Thursday. Thursday’s matches should have seen Demerara face Rising Stars XI and Berbice battle Essequibo. The final is scheduled for Friday at Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC), Bourda, however, a…
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has declared that the National Insurance Scheme is currently in a bankrupt state and is therefore in no position at this time to offer increases in the pension benefits for retired workers. The Vice President made the disclosure on Wednesday afternoon in Bath Settlement, Berbice as he faced questions from one…
Police are searching for a 55-year-old businessman of Harlem, West Coast Demerara who accidentally discharged his firearm and damaged a $1.3 million scanner located at the Guyana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) Camp Street, Georgetown office. The incident occurred at about 15:43 hrs on Wednesday. A report from the police on Thursday noted that the businessman visited…
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has declared that the National Insurance Scheme is currently in a bankrupt state and is therefore in no position at this time to offer increases in the pension benefits for retired workers. The Vice President made the disclosure on Wednesday afternoon in Bath Settlement, Berbice as he faced questions from one…
Since March 2020, Guyana has accumulated more than US $719 million, or about GY $150 billion in the Natural Resource Fund – the country’s oil wealth fund – according to a notification of receipts published in the Official Gazette. Of that total amount, US $638.5 million or GY$133 billion has been garnered from profit oil,…
Police investigators in Region Seven are probing the murder of a Venezuelan woman, whose body was found with multiple chop wounds and partly buried in a shallow grave in the Eteringbang backdam. Investigators have identified the dead woman as Deissy Antury Perdomo. She worked in the bordering community of Eteringbang as a clothes vendor and…
The Guyana Police Force has issued a wanted bulletin for Denzil Haynes, 24, in relation to the murder of 27-year-old Yardan Jacobs. Police Headquarters reported that Haynes’ last known address is Lot ‘T’ 67, North Sophia, Greater Georgetown. If seen or anyone who has information about the whereabouts of Haynes, please contact the police on,…
A speeding mini-bus driver who lost control of his mini-bus while overtaking a car and slammed into a grader along the Uitvlugt public road has escaped with injuries that are not life-threatening. A number of his passengers also escaped with minor injuries while one passenger has been hospitalized. The Guyana Police Force said the accident…
POLICE are trying to contact a 55-year-old businessman of Harlem, West Coast Demerara (WCD), who they say ‘accidentally’ discharged his firearm while exiting the Guyana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) Camp Street, Georgetown headquarters on Wednesday last, causing damage to the authority’s scanner. According to a police statement, today, the man visited the GRA head office at…
[Miami Herald] – The premier of the British Virgin Islands and the director of the small Caribbean territory’s ports were arrested Thursday at a Miami-area airport by federal agents on charges of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and money laundering, according to U.S. authorities. Andrew Alturo Fahie, BVI’s premier, and Oleanvine Maynard,…
