April 2025

Amid the rising use of technology to innovatively tackle environmental issues, Recover Guyana, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, has been pushing SHOUT, a local speech competition that provides a platform for secondary school students to be part of the discussion on environmental protection, sustainability and conservation. During an interview with the News Room
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By Avenash Ramzan avenash@newsroom.gy Following the successful staging of a Level One Match Referee Training Course by the Georgetown Cricket Umpires and Scorers Association (GCUSA) in partnership with the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) in February this year, a new batch of officials has commenced officiating in domestic games across Guyana. Five of the 22 participants at
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See below the full release from the Ministry of Finance:  April 04, 2025: As Government continues to recognise the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector’s potential to create thousands of jobs for guyanese countrywide, Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance and the Public Service Dr. Ashni Singh yesterday met with
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Top female cricketers from across Guyana will trade skills this weekend in the Guyana Cricket Board’s Inter-County T20 tournament, with all matches at the La Bonne Intention ground. Apart from crowning a county champion, the competition will be used by the national selectors to compose the national team for the upcoming regional T20 tournament. All
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Tevin Imlach and Kevlon Anderson struck masterful centuries, their third each of the 2025 West Indies Four-Day Championship, propelling the Guyana Harpy Eagles to a commanding position against the Leeward Islands Hurricanes in their crucial round-six clash at Warner Park. At stumps on day three, the Harpy Eagles reached 381-4 in their second innings, establishing
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Shemaiah Ryan, called ‘Banker’, a 23-year-old unemployed resident of Bent Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown, was charged on Friday after he was found defrauding a couple of some $36.4 million. The monies were taken out of the couple’s account during September 2022 via online banking and ATM withdrawal. Ryan is facing 48 counts of fraud. Police Headquarters
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Mohamed Ali, a man believed to be a notorious fraudster, was remanded to prison on Friday after he was charged with fraud. Police Headquarters reported that the man was arrested as part of a serious investigation into MMG-related frauds. It was noted that on March 29, Ali contacted a woman, Shelon Whitney, pretending to be
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Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) will clash in the highly anticipated final of the Georgetown Cricket Association’s Pepsi First Division 50-over final, set for Saturday at Bourda. Bowl-off is at 09:30h and both teams will be missing key players. DCC will be without Tevin Imlach, Raymond Perez and Ashmead Nedd and
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Contracts worth a whopping US$422 million were signed on Friday for the extension of transmission lines for the Guyana Power and Light (GPL). This is the single largest investment in GPL’s infrastructure. This investment will help with the generation and distribution of power from the mega 300 megawatt (MW) Gas-to-Energy power plant. The contracts were awarded
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