August 2024

Dwayne Bravo, the highest wicket-taker in T20 cricket, has announced that he will retire from the CPL after the ongoing season. Bravo, who will turn 41 in October, made the announcement public hours before Trinbago Knight Riders’ opening game of CPL 2024, against St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in Basseterre. “It’s been a great journey. This
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As schools reopen on Monday, September 2, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) is urging all road users to exercise extra caution. With children back on the roads, the GPF said it is vital to slow down, especially in school zones, and to “always yield to pedestrians.” In a press statement, the GPF said parents are
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A post-mortem examination, which was conducted on five-year-old Juliana Gounga of Orange Walk, Matthews Ridge, North West District, revealed that she died by drowning. Police said the post mortem was conducted at the Port Kaituma Hospital Mortuary by Dr. Nehaul Singh on Friday, August 30, 2024. The body was later handed over to the relatives
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Some 300 families of Leeds village, Region Six (East Berbice/Corentyne) will soon receive Certificates of Title for lands they have been occupying for decades. The Ministry of Legal Affairs and the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) on Saturday held a land regularisation exercise in the village and occupational surveys are expected to be completed
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Please see statement from Ministry of Public Work: The Ministry of Public Works wishes to inform all truck drivers that, effective immediately, they are required to use the main road and refrain from using the Railway Embankment corridor. The Ministry has been persistently repairing bridges along the Railway Embankment due to damage caused by heavy
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Please see below full statement from Ministry of Finance:   Georgetown, Ministry of Finance, August 31, 2024: During his address last evening at the opening of the Essequibo Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (ECCI) Annual Agro and Trade Exposition, Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance and the Public Service
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Please see below full statement from Ministry of Finance: Georgetown, Ministry of Finance, August 31, 2024: Despite persistent repercussions of the global polycrisis- lingering public health challenges, the ever-present realities of climate change and exposure to natural disasters, and the domestic pass through of global economic realities and policies-which continued to weigh on the economic
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