Guyana Newspapers

…signs MOUs with Guyana for energy, air and regional cooperation Stemming from the abundance of opportunities available from the local oil and gas sector, the Dominican Republic is exploring the possibility of collaborating with Guyana for the establishment of a crude oil refinery here. This was revealed by Dominican Republic President, Luis […]

Mark Royden Durant, also called “Royden Williams” and “Smallie”, along with an accomplice, was shot and killed during a confrontation with members of the Joint Services at 33 Miles Bartica Potaro, Region Seven. This was confirmed by Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum, who had initially reported that one man was killed in the confrontation, which […]

…students will be remembered through positive change in their communities – Ali The final 11 victims of the deadly Mahdia dormitory fire were laid to rest on Thursday in their home community of Micobie Village in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni). Those laid to rest were Natalie Bellarmine, Andrea Roberts, Lorita Williams, Nickleen Robinson, […]

As the Disciplined Services turn out today to cast their ballots ahead of Local Government Elections 2023, General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, has urged them to vote for the party that has their welfare and best interest. During his weekly press conference on Thursday, Jagdeo pointed out that the PPP/C The […]

…19 children safely evacuated, no injuries reported Four male students have confessed to setting a fire on Thursday that partially destroyed St Angela’s Girls Hostel at Karasabai, Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo), nearly two weeks after a deadly inferno had destroyed the Mahdia Secondary School’s female dormitory and claimed the […]

Biden and House congressional leader McCarthy finally reached a deal on their country’s “debt ceiling” conundrum. The divided US House of Representatives – on a divided 314-117  vote –  passed a bill to actually SUSPEND the US$31.4 trillion debt ceiling. Meaning that for a while there’s actually gonna be NO debt ceiling!! But the […]

The current situation regarding males in education is significant enough to warrant a strategic, long-term intervention. For over a decade, there has been clear evidence that the boys in our schools are not having an equal experience to that of girls. More importantly — as studies have unearthed — the issue goes well beyond a The post Males […]

Dear Editor, Much has been written, and much more, in all likelihood, would be written about the Mahdia mega-tragedy. However, missing in all of this is a very doable measure that would have prevented this fire – counsellors in schools. Had there been counsellors on the staff at the school, that student would have been The post Counsellors in […]

Dear Editor, There is a letter which attacks me; noting, it says, “the deafening silence of the Private Sector Commission and their oft times spokespersons like Gerry Gouveia and Kit Nascimento” on the subject of the Mahdia tragedy and the Mazaruni prison escape. The letter goes on, quite wrongly, to claim that we are quick The post No sane […]

Dear Editor, Dr David Hinds’s shows on YouTube are predictable: he dutifully carries on about marginalisation and apartheid on Afro-Guyanese. On Tuesday 30/5, he was different: He talked about the decline and fall of the PNC/APNU party; of how all forces were stacked against it; how it was imploding from the inside, and how PNC The post Dr […]