The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and the Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) Organisation have partnered to host the first full-fledge senior football tournament in close to two years. Late last year, they partnered to host a ‘Bounceback’ football tournament, but that was mainly for four invited teams. In an interview with the News Room Sport this…
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 TEAM of 35 Afro-Guyanese private sector representatives were apprised of the investment opportunities which exist in Guyana, during an engagement with a high-level delegation led by Vice-President, Bharrat Jagdeo. Speaking during the meeting held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, Jagdeo said that the government is committed to working with all Guyanese companies to…
By Shikema Dey Shikema@newsroom.gy Twenty-six-year-old educator Rosemarie Ramitt lost her vision at the tender age of 13 after being diagnosed with the genetic disease Pan uveitis which causes inflammation in the uvea eye. The news left her discouraged as the thought of living without her sight was one she could not contemplate. “Before age 13,…
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…
–Health Ministry to relook at administration process amid spread of Omicron THE Ministry of Health is seeing a favourable increase in the administration of the COVID-19 booster shots to the adult population here, following its roll-out last week. Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, said some 1,914 persons have so far received a booster dose…
The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has met with the Government of Guyana (GoG) to kick off the national approval process necessary to accept an offer from FIFA for Guyana to become the first CARICOM nation to benefit from the world football governing body’s Football For Schools programme Click on this link to read more about…
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…
–project to create over 30 jobs LOCAL company, JSB investment Inc., plans to position itself to benefit from the rapidly growing construction industry, with a $120 million investment in a concrete block and pave manufacturing facility at Yarrowkabra, on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway. The company will be establishing the facility on a plot of land stretching…
By Vishani Ragobeer Vishani@newsroom.gy For much of his life, since he was a 16-year-old boy, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara farmer Christopher James suffered from excruciating pain because he had kidney stones. This pain continued over the years but it would ‘come and go’. Last month, however, he realised that the pain in his stomach was…
