August 2025

Colin Munro and Nicholas Pooran led a clinical chase as Trinbago Knight Riders brushed aside Barbados Royals by seven wickets in Tarouba to rise to the top of the CPL 2025 table. Chasing 179, Munro set the tone with a typically aggressive 67 while Pooran finished the job in style with an unbeaten 65, wrapping…
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With Guyana’s most crucial elections just two days away, several indigenous voices have backed the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) for re-election. In fact, prominent leaders and representatives, including Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, have underscored the party’s commitment to ensuring equitable access to opportunities for social and economic progress. With a…
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See below full statement issued by FITUG: As we approach the September 01, 2025, General and Regional elections, we the member unions of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) – namely the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), the Guyana Labour Union (GLU), the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union (CCWU) and…
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Toshao of Rockstone Village, Region 10, Deino Williams has endorsed President Irfaan Ali and the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) for a second term in office, crediting their visionary leadership and programmes aimed at enhancing the lives of the indigenous people. Williams, in his public endorsement, commended the PPP/C for their leadership in the Carbon…
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Azurddin Mohamed’s failed business empire, built on bribery and corruption from gold operations, has shown he is incapable of running anything and is incapable of running Guyana, and so Guyanese must not buy his bluff and vote for him, President Irfaan Ali declared Friday night. “Azruddin Mohamed is a bluff. He has demonstrated that he…
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See below full statement issued by GECOM: The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has taken note of a press release issued by the WIN Party regarding the approval of polling agents. GECOM wishes to make it absolutely clear that the WIN Party’s statement misrepresents the facts. The Facts: Notwithstanding it is not a responsibility of the…
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See below full statement issued by GECOM: The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) categorically rejects recent media reports suggesting that the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) may be called upon to serve in the capacity of Presiding Officers for the upcoming General and Regional Elections on 1st September 2025. This claim is entirely false and has no…
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A video has surfaced showing prominent businessman Nazar “Shell” Mohamed leaving the Venezuelan Embassy in Georgetown, reigniting controversy over his ties with Venezuela. When reports of such visits first emerged, the Mohameds, sanctioned by the United States Government, flatly denied them, with Mohamed even daring Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo to produce proof. ‘I will stake…
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See below the full statement issued by CARICOM:  By way of communication dated 9 April 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana advised Member States that Guyana’s General and Regional Elections would be held in 2025. An invitation was extended to the CARICOM Secretariat to mount an…
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Forty-year-old boat operator Ryan Fredericks was on Thursday night found dead in a room of the Safari Inn Hotel at Friendship, East Bank Demerara, after he was allegedly robbed. Police Headquarters said Fredericks, a resident of Mongrippa Hill, Bartica had reportedly checked into the hotel around 17:45 hrs with an unidentified woman. Fredericks and the…
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