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Friday, December 27, 2024

STOCK MARKET TURMOIL – as China suspends circuit breaker

China will, from tomorrow, suspend its new stock market circuit-breaker mechanism - designed to stop free-falling prices, the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges have...

GGMC is top heavy – Trotman

The staff of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) will be more visible in the fields as the commission is viewed as ‘top...

CIOG to host scholars for Youman Nabi celebrations

The Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG) said it will be observing the upcoming Youman Nabi celebrations with a series of special programmes in...

The schoolboy who scored a thousand runs in one innings

Having already broken the record for the highest score in all known cricket, Pranav Dhanawade told his father he would 'score big tomorrow', and...

BERBICE BUSINESSMAN KILLED IN SUSPECTED HIT

 A father of six was killed shortly before midnight last night in what appeared to be a hit after two men entered his Belvedere...

Angry vendors protest outside President’s office – claim M&CC cheating them

What had been decades of hard work seemed to have been reduced to nothingness for vendors of the Merriman Mall, Bourda, Georgetown, who were...

3-year-old girl falls to death – from building in Moraikobai

Regional health authorities in Region Five (Demerara-Berbice) are probing allegations that the unavailability of medical staff at the Moraikobai Health Centre, as well as...

Alleged shampoo, body lotion thief gets bail

  Jewan Persaud was on Wednesday placed on $25,000 bail following a simple larceny charge when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Persaud accepted the...

Broomes to take charge of Occupational Health and Safety – at Natural Resources Ministry

Former Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Ms. Simona Broomes, who has now been appointed Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources, will...

Close to 60% of Guyana’s gold smuggled overseas – Trotman

Officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Homeland Security from the United States of America visited Guyana a few weeks ago and...

Recent Articles

Vessels fraudulently using Guyana’s flag sanctioned by US Treasury Dept

See full statement from the Maritime Administration Department: The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) wishes to share the facts in relation to information shared in a...

Historic moment for Guyana & US – Ambassador Theriot on Gte loan approval

    Today, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM), announced an approval of more than $526 million to the Ministry of Finance of the...

US EXIM Bank Grants Final Approval for US$526 M Gas to Energy Loan to...

Today at noon, His Excellency the President Dr. Mohammed Irfaan Ali received a telephone call from the President and Chair of the United States...

$100K cash grant: Rigid systems in place to avoid registration, issuance of cash grants...

                In light of specious and baseless claims by some sections of the public that dead people were registered for the 100,000 one-off cash grant...

ExxonMobil now owns all 3 FPSOs operating in Stabroek Block

      The purchase of the Liza Destiny Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel by ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL), was recently completed for US$535 million,...

Christmas 2024 in Guyana – When the tradition keeps on living – by Sébastien...

An account from Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana Sébastien Sigouin on his 1st Guyanese Christmas experience  If there was one distinctive part of my Christmases...

Pedestrian killed in Corentyne accident

    A Corentyne man is now dead after being hit by a car about 30 minutes before Christmas Day.   Dead is Jermaine Fraser, 40, of Auchlyne...

E-bike rider killed after colliding with minibus at WCB

      An electric bike rider is now dead after colliding with a minibus at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) on Christmas Eve. Dead...

25 years of hard work burnt to the ground, rebuilt for Christmas

By: Mishael Henry The smell of burnt charcoal lingers in the nostrils of Andrew McBean, and is etched into his memory like a sore scar. Exactly...

A soldier’s boots under the tree, but no son to wear them

By: La'Wanda McAllister  Festive homes all over Guyana are glimmering with Christmas lights and the melody of carols float in the warm December air. But...