Guyana Amazon Warriors have one foot in the 2021 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) semi-finals following a 46-run victory over the Jamaica Tallawahs The Amazon Warriors won the toss and elected to bat first and captain Nicholas Pooran led the way with a brutal 75 not out to set the Tallawahs 170 to win. In…
There are now over 2300 active cases of COVID-19 in Guyana with 2,269 of those active cases recovering at home. The death toll in the country climbed to 641 over the weekend and there are 33 persons in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit. The number of new cases of the virus has been climbing steadily…
–departs shipyard in Singapore THE Liza Unity, Guyana’s second Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO), has already departed the Keppel shipyard in Singapore, and is currently en-route to Guyana. The Ministry of Natural Resources confirmed in a statement that the oil vessel departed Singapore on September 3, 2021, and is expected to arrive offshore…
By Vishani Ragobeer vishani@newsroom.gy The Suddie hospital along the Essequibo Coast in Region Two (Pomeroon- Supenaam) is set to receive significant upgrades to the tune of GY $2 billion, enabling residents of the region to access better healthcare. The upgrade of the hospital is being funded by a loan received from India and it will…
As the mining community of Region 10 went into a total lockdown today over the government’s vaccination measures, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony lashed out at at the move, describing those behind the lockout as ‘anti-vaxxers’. He said people behind the lockout are the people responsible for the vaccine hesitancy in the region. Region 10…
–Gov’t says discovery will stimulate monumental transformation EXXONMOBIL Guyana has struck big yet again at the 6.6 million acres Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, discovering high-quality hydrocarbon-bearing sandstone reservoirs at the Pinktail well. In a press statement on Thursday, the company confirmed that its Pinktail well encountered 220 feet (67 meters) of net pay in high…
Since the motions that led to the removal of three senior functionaries of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) who are accused of electoral fraud, the agency has been working to fill the vacancies so that the work of the Secretariat can go on. However, without a Chief Elections Officer (CEO), a Deputy Chief Elections Officer…
The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has seized 50 measuring devices from the Stabroek and Bourda markets during a surveillance exercise and plans to intensify its campaign to remove the unapproved scales from shelves in an apparent crackdown on the device. The GNBS said it moved in with the ranks of the Guyana Police…
–Guyana rejects latest claim to its land by Venezuelan Government, Opposition VENEZUELA’S latest move to lay claim to Guyana’s territory through an internal agreement between the nation’s government and its opposition was rejected categorically by the Government of Guyana. At a meeting in Mexico City on September 6, 2021, the Heads of Delegation of the…
By Vishani Ragobeer vishani@newsroom.gy A 13-year-old girl who attends the Parika Salem Secondary school in Region Three fell ill just after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at her school on Tuesday but she is back home recovering well. This is according to her father Mark Yusuff, who spoke with the News…
