Over 20 small businesses owned by Afro-Guyanese showcased their locally made products today with the hosting of a market day at the Cuffy Square. The business owners are hoping to bring more awareness to their products in an effort to expand production and get the products more readily available on the local market. Today’s event…

GUYANA has now passed the 1,000 mark for COVID-19 deaths, according to the daily COVID-19 dashboard published by the Ministry of Health. The December 3 dashboard said Guyana now has 1,001 deaths from COVID-19. Taking the death toll to 1,001 are three men, all senior citizens. Two of them, 65 and 70, are fully vaccinated…

A total of 1,001 people have reportedly died from the disease COVID-19 since March 2020, according to information provided by the Ministry of Health. On Friday, the Health Ministry reported that there were three additional COVID-19 deaths. Those who died are: A 65-year-old fully vaccinated man from Region 10 (Upper Demerara- Berbice) who died on…

Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll jumped over the 1000 mark with three more deaths being recorded. According to the Ministry of Health, two of the recent deaths, a 65-year-old man and a 70-year-old man from the Region 10 community were both fully vaccinated. The third person who died was a 59-year-old unvaccinated man from Region Two.…

POLICE have issued a wanted bulletin for US-based political commentator and ally of the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), Rickford Burke. According to a Friday evening release, Burke is wanted for questioning in relation to a number of offenses including inciting racial hostility, sedition, seditious libel, using a computer to…

The Guyana Police Force late Friday night issued a wanted bulletin for United States-based Guyanese Rickford Burke in connection with seven offences. Burke is a well-known supporter of the Opposition APNU+AFC coalition and on Thursday night he appeared on a  Facebook live programme with AFC Parliamentarian, Sherod Duncan, where he reportedly made a number of…

The Alliance for Change which is one of the partners in the APNU+AFC Coalition, lambasted the PPP Civic Government today over the arrest of former Finance Minister Winston Jordan and the plan to file charges against him in relation to the sale of wharf facilities by the former Government to local contracting company, BK International.…

The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit is convinced that the cocaine which was found in a rum shipment from Guyana in The Netherlands, was placed in the shipment after it left Guyana. More than 1100 pounds of cocaine was found in the container of rum that originated in Guyana. However, the shipment made two stops for…

The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit is convinced that the cocaine which was found in a rum shipment from Guyana in The Netherlands, was placed in the shipment after it left Guyana. More than 1100 pounds of cocaine was found in the container of rum that originated in Guyana. However, the shipment made two stops for…

A MEDICAL team that included dentists, eye specialists, and diagnostic medical sonographers among other medical professionals recently delivered medical care to scores of residents at Imbaimadai, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni). The team, led by Director-General of the Ministry of Health Dr. Vishwa Mahadeo, spent two days in the community, which has a population of 855 persons.…