Following the successful staging of a Shuttle Time workshop for school teachers in Essequibo, the Guyana Badminton Association (GBA) will host a historic AirBadminton tournament in the county on March 6. The one-day tournament will be held at the Motocross Ground in Mainstay, with action getting underway at 10:00h. The…
The new executive of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF) will lift off their 2026 season with the hosting of the Novices/Juniors National Championship set for Sunday March 8, at St. Stanislaus Collage Auditorium, in the capital city. Young lifters from across the country will compete as they showcase their…
Residents of the Four Miles to Seven Miles communities in Bartica, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) now have better access to water following the commissioning of a new water treatment plant at Five Miles. This is the first surface water treatment plant in Guyana. Bartica and the surrounding areas have experienced sustained…
Two men, Isiah Charles and Sheldon Chase, were remanded on Friday for the possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. The duo was found with the cannabis on Thursday at Success Village, East Bank Demerara (EBD) when ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) intercepted a motor vehicle revealing…
The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) has arrested three persons after discovering 10.966 kilograms of suspected cocaine in their possession. CANU said on Friday, acting on information received, ranks conducted an operation in the vicinity of Mora Village, Parika, East Bank Essequibo. There, three males were intercepted, one of whom was…
A Berbice family is distressed following the death of Ravindra Yudeshwar Bishram, a 52-year-old resident of Cumberland Village, East Canje, Berbice, who was purportedly beaten to death on Thursday at the New Amsterdam Psychiatric Hospital. A relative and caretaker, Mr. Diaram Singh, informed reporters that at approximately 8:30 hours on…
A 77-year-old pensioner of Success, East Coast Demerara (ECD) has succumbed to her injuries after she was attacked by bees at about 07:00hrs on Friday at Success. A 25-year-old female is also hospitalised following the incident. Police said Mohadai Sankar, who was visiting from the United States of America, along…
Students of the Government Technical Institute (GTI) are moving away from the era of pen and paper and into three- dimensional digital design with the commissioning of the Karpowership-GTI AutoCAD Technology Lab. The new laboratory replaces manual drafting tools with twenty-six high-performance workstations running specialised Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software, according…
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday delivered its ruling in a case of Eslene Vigilance v Roopnarine Persaud in which it agreed with the local courts that the applicant failed to prove that the contended land was acquired by fraud as claimed. Based on a petition for prescriptive…
New Zealand and Pakistan will share the points after rain forced a washout in Colombo. The officials waited over two hours from the official start time for an improvement in the weather conditions, but the steady drizzle that began at the toss only grew heavier and never quite relented. With…
