May 2025

The Guyana National Rifle Association (GuyanaNRA) team has arrived in Barbados for the 2025 West Indies Fullbore Shooting Championships. The squad is aiming to retain their Short and Long-Range titles, with individual honours also on offer. The 12-member team, which includes two female shooters for the first time in 20 years—Kay-Ann Ghanie and Althea Alleyne—landed
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A US$22.58 million contract was inked on Wednesday for the construction of a 15-megawatt (MW) solar farm in Linden, and when completed, the mega project will be the largest solar farm in Guyana. A Chinese joint venture between SUMEC Complete Equipment and Engineering Company and XJ Group Corporation has undertaken the project, working alongside the
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At this year’s National Toshaos Council (NTC) Conference, Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat addressed the longstanding mining issue in Chinese Landing, Region One (Barima-Waini). According to Bharrat, former Toshao Orin Fernandes was offered two mining blocks for village-led mining activities. “The application is still pending at [the] Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), it
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Hayley Matthews again etched her name into the history books with a sensational unbeaten century, her third in T20 Internationals and the first ever by a West Indian woman against England, but her brilliance proved in vain as they slumped to an eight-wicket defeat in the opening T20I in Canterbury on Wednesday. On a sun-kissed
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Some $706 million in ‘Because We Care’ cash grants will be distributed across Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) in 2025. The parents receiving these cash grants have hailed it a “fast” process. The News Room visited several schools in the region on Wednesday and spoke with several parents including Nagindra Bisheswar. He is the parent of a
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