August 2025

  Education Minister Priya Manickchand has announced that the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) will release the results for the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) on Friday, August 15. Speaking on Wednesday, Manickchand expressed cautious optimism about Guyana’s performance, particularly in Mathematics, a subject that posed significant challenges across the…
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See full statment from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM): The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has launched a new, user-friendly online search tool designed to help voters easily locate their assigned polling stations. This innovative feature, accessible via GECOM’s official website, aims to streamline the voting process and enhance voter convenience for the upcoming elections. Voters…
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By Vishani Ragobeer vishani@newsroom.gy  Almost 16,000 pupils wrote the 2025 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), Guyana’s secondary school placement examination. This year, there were improvements in all four subject areas, and Education Minister Priya Manickchand hailed these results as the best in Guyana’s history.  Tanasha Mayers, a pupil of the Academy of Excellence in Region…
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To advance universal access to early education, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand on Tuesday commissioned a new $25.3 million nursery school at Tapakuma Lake, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam). The school was built to accommodate 17 children. Manickchand stressed that every village deserves its own facility. “Many would have consider it unworthy, undeserving of a separate nursery…
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The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) on Tuesday night confirmed that a credible threat has been made against the life of its Director, James Singh, based on intelligence provided by international partners. In a statement, the agency described the matter as “a direct threat to the safety and well-being” of Singh, and “an attempt to…
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Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd has summoned Venezuela’s Ambassador to Guyana, Carlos Amador Perez Silva, after learning that well-known local businessmen Nazar Mohamed and his son Azruddin, have been making frequent visits to the Venezuelan Embassy in Georgetown. Minister Todd made the disclosure during an interview on Tuesday while providing an update on the International…
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Knowing when it’s time to go is a valuable trait, and if Pakistan were in any doubt their time in the Caribbean was up, West Indies quashed them and sent the visitors out of town with a comprehensive trouncing. Jayden Seales’ six-wicket haul – the joint second-best figures by a West Indian in men’s ODI…
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Sixteen children living with life-threatening heart conditions are now on the road to recovery following a week of life-saving surgeries and procedures at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). From August 4 to 8, GPHC, in collaboration with the US-based non-profit Gift of Life International (GOLI), carried out its second paediatric cardiac mission for the…
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For years, children from Huridiah, Acquero, Koko, Cabrora, and Sheba have had to travel long distances, often by boat, to attend Santa Rosa Primary School in Region One. The situation has changed for 250 students because the government started building a new primary school in Huridiah. The new school is designed to provide a safe…
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Police on Tuesday arrested 53-year-old Martin True, a resident of Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, in connection with the alleged murder of his ex-wife Bibi Shazida Hanif, 45. Martin was arrested along the No. 66 Public Road in Corentyne, Berbice at about 08:30 hrs on Tuesday, hours after Bibi was found murdered. He was in…
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