With just two weeks remaining before the deadline date for applications for the Government’s Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Programme, the Central Housing and Planning Authority has decided to take the programme to the people, in an effort to get more people to apply. Today, the officials from the Department were in the Stabroek market…

…as political parties gear up for new polls …hailed as superior candidate in likely crowded field PRESIDENT David Granger will be the APNU+AFC Coalition’s presidential candidate for the next General and Regional Elections, top sources within the A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance For Change have confirmed. The Guyana Chronicle has been reliably informed

Ranks of the Guyana Police Force on Thursday acted on intelligence received and went to a location at Wismar, Linden where they found two-and-a-half-acre cannabis cultivation.  The farm had 1100 plants measuring six inches to a foot in height along with a nursery with about 500 seedlings and a makeshift camp.   The plants and camp were photographed and destroyed by fire.    

While not wanting to divulge details of the probe, Police Commissioner Leslie James on Friday morning said that the probe of former Member of Parliament Charrandass Persaud is related to the movement of gold out of Guyana and bribery. Persaud left Guyana for Canada, the morning after he voted along with the Opposition against his…

By Akeem Greene Guyana Jaguars and Leeward Islands Hurricanes are locked in an intense battle at the National Stadium, Providence, where 13 wickets tumbled on the first day. Jaguars were bowled out for 196 just after tea, but jarred any hasty progression of the opposition by snatching three late wickets to leave Hurricanes 57-3, still…

TO the timid spirit the conclusion is, that the turbulent world of politics is best left to be defined by other men and somehow it will eventually serve their dreams while they slip into pathetic obscurity. This is the grim differentiation between the condition of those ‘who know and the knows not’, that restrains the

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport is reporting that 2018 recorded the highest rate of passenger movement through the country’s main airport ever. Between January and December of last year, over 630,000 passengers were processed as compared to just over 592,000 in 2017. The airport said those figures represent a 7% increase in passenger movement over…

…AFC slams former MP as treacherous THE Alliance For Change (AFC), having entirely assessed the actions of former member Charrandass Persaud has concluded that somewhere along the line he set out to deliberately mislead his party. The same was expounded upon at an AFC press conference on Wednesday attended by Public Security Minister and AFC

Stuart Broad‘s hat-trick was the highlight as England claimed 19 wickets in a day against the CWI President’s XI. You could be forgiven for looking at the scorecard of this match and dismissing it as a nonsense. And it is true, in these two-day warm-up games, a certain level of scepticism does have to be…

Corentyne resident, 18-year-old Keeran Jeenarine was today remanded to jail for the old year’s night murder of brothers, Harricharran and Premcharran Samaroo. One of the brothers was shot to his face while the other was beaten to death during a home invasion and robbery that also saw their mother and another elderly relative being beaten…