The Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) will be closed to all vehicular traffic on November 20 and 21 in order to restore two major components – retractor spans 9 and 10 which were damaged due to years of wear and tear. A notice published on the DHB’s Facebook page outlined that the bridge will be closed on Saturday…
A drug eradication operation by the Police in the Upper Berbice river area unearthed over 500,000 marijuana plants, 2000 pounds of dried marijuana and 100 pounds of marijuana seeds along with four nurseries. In a statement, the Police pegged the total cost attached to the marijuana at just over $2 Billion. The operation was carried…
GALLE, Sri Lanka (CMC) – West Indies Test team is ready to take on Sri Lanka in the next few days, with the aim of giving fans good cricket and a historic win at Galle, vice-captain Jermaine Blackwood has assured. The Caribbean men will begin the two-Test series on November 21 on the heels of…
A 52-year-old security guard of Affiance Village, Essequibo Coast in Region Two was reportedly strangled to death on Monday afternoon by a known taxi driver. Dead is Indira Lall, a mother of two. The taxi driver has since been arrested. A relative told the News Room that Lall frequently used the taxi driver since she…
Public servants including constitutional office holders, teachers, and members of the Disciplined Forces will be getting a 7% increase in their salaries for the year 2021. The increase will be retroactive to January and will be taxed. The salary increase announcement was made by the Senior Minister responsible for Finance Dr. Ashni Singh in a…
THE U17 Lady Jags received a ‘bye’ to the CONCACAF U17 Championships Round-of-16, which will be held from April 23 to May 8, 2022, in the Dominican Republic. Guyana finished as the best-ranked second-placed team among the three groups at the Qualification tournament at the IMG Academy in Florida, with six points from three matches,…
Images circulating online purporting to show that the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) had promised a 50 per cent salary increase to public servants while campaigning prior to the March 2020 elections are fake. According to Minister of Public Service Sonia Parag, such a promise was never made by the PPP/C in its elections manifesto.…
A horrific accident in the vicinity of Caledonia on the East Bank of Demerara claimed the lives of a Linden husband and wife this afternoon, according to the Police. The two have been identified as Nicholas Valcin and Olisa Sanderson-Valcin. Initial reports state that the two were in a car heading south along the East…
FIFTY-FIVE years after his family moved to Church and Oronoque Streets, Georgetown, and he gravitated to the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC), renowned health professional, Dr Frank Denbow, returned to Queenstown and paid homage to where his early infatuation with the sport of cricket began. On Wednesday evening, Dr. Denbow, who was not a member of…
The woman who died in a horrific accident on the Caledonia Public Road on the East Bank of Demerara was heavily pregnant. Dead is Olisa Valcin and her husband, Nicholas Valcin. They were involved in a head-on collision with a canter truck Thursday afternoon. Family and friends have taken to social media to mourn the…
