The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has seized and destroyed nearly 7000 pieces of substandard electrical products found on the local market. Earlier this year, GNBS started the monitoring of several categories of electrical equipment and fittings based on the requirements of the mandatory national standards. In a statement today, the GNBS said since…
— close to 700 regain employment at shuttered estates AS efforts to resuscitate Guyana’s ailing sugar industry continue, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) in ramping up its activities at one of the three shuttered estates, the Rose Hall Sugar Estate, will be hiring over 100 persons on Thursday. In 2017, the former A Partnership for…
The National Sports Commission on Monday agreed to sell a plot of land on Mandela Avenue, Georgetown, to Cevons Waste Management. This comes two months after Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo had announced that the government had settled the matter with the company and would no longer seek to repossess the land, which the government had claimed…
As a rift continues in the People’s National Congress Reform over Party Leader David Granger’s handling of party matters, a group of five of the fifteen current members of the Central Executive Committee has emerged to lash out at the other members who recently publicly criticized Mr. Granger in a statement. “We denounce, most emphatically,…
A 23-year-old resident of Roxanne Burnham Gardens, Georgetown, was gunned down on Saturday night while on his way to meet a “female friend” he had travelled to Linden to see. The dead man has been identified as Delron McKenzie. His friend, Calvin Daly, who had accompanied him on the trip received two gunshot wounds and…
Traffic ranks on the West Coast Berbice are investigating an accident which resulted in the death of, Nathaniel Ledra, a 20-year-old teacher from Black Bush Polder. The News Room understands that Ledra was riding motorcycle CK 370 on the Number 3 Public Road when he collided with motor jeep PTT 5255 that is attached to…
Opposition Member of Parliament Annette Ferguson was today charged and released on self bail for allegedly using a computer to humiliate someone. The case was heard by Magistrate Leron Daly. During her appearance, Ferguson entered a not guilty plea to the charge that she used a computer system on the 15th June, 2021 to humiliate…
-says the project answers President Ali’s call for better connectivity AFTER being burdened with substandard internet services for decades, the people of Essequibo, Region Two, Pomeroon-Supenaam, are soon expected to benefit from significantly improved connections, owing to a $1.2 billion investment from E-Networks Incorporated. The company in a statement, on Saturday, said that it will…
Police on the Essequibo Coast are currently combing the backlands of Onderneeming, Region Two to find a man who shot two persons at the Queenstown bus shed. The incident occurred at 19:30hrs. A neighbour, who spoke with the News Room, said she heard the two shots but did not take them seriously and only ventured…
As public health officials worldwide continue to monitor several mutations and variants of the Coronavirus, there is growing concern that the fast-spreading Delta strain is in Guyana and is affecting more children than any other strain. A 16-year-old passed away at the COVID Hospital and at least three other children are hospitalized. While there is…
