Guyana Times

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) this week announced the squads for our much-anticipated 2025 Inter-County Under-13 Boys’ Tournament. The annual tournament will feature teams from Guyana’s three counties. Demerara is known as the industrial county, Essequibo as the Cinderella County, and Berbice as the Ancient County, and the GCB select XI. The Demerara Under-13 2025 Squad reads Lomar Seecharran (Captain), Nathaniel Ramkhelwan,...

Some of the biggest names in horse racing will gather at the Port Mourant Turf Club on Sunday, September 28, for the much-anticipated Clash at D Big Yard. Nine top contenders are confirmed for the feature race, including former Horse of the Year Spankhurst, Summer Stakes winner Ritorna Vincentori, Stat, Stormy Victory, Companheiro Leal, Frontline Warrior, Full Liberty, Loyal...

Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha, along with a team of senior officers from the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), met with millers to continue engagements as paddy prices for the second crop continue to fluctuate across the country. With the second crop of the year ongoing, which is expected to yield over 800,000 tonnes, farmers continue to seek the Government’s intervention...

President Dr Irfaan Ali on Wednesday told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that Guyana is leading the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Vision 2030 Agri-Food Systems Agenda, with the aim of boosting food production, ending hunger, and ensuring food security across the Caribbean. He urged global leaders to accelerate the transformation of global food systems to make them more resilient, sustainable,...

The Audit Office of Guyana (AOG) is currently building capacity in a number of new areas, including the oil and gas sector, and is looking to increase its trained staff to adequately scrutinise the burgeoning industry. The Auditor General’s office is responsible for conducting annual audits of public accounts, financial transactions or operations and financial statements. To this end, several...

– says payments can be made via bank or cash as WIN MPs' accounts closed – 13th Parliament to be convened as soon as list of 65 new MPs submitted Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs has explained that Members of Parliament (MPs) can be paid either via the bank or in cash. His clarification comes on the heels of at...

A 13-year-old boy of Guyanese parentage who was shot in the head at a Dunkin' Doughnuts in Queens three days ago has succumbed to his injuries while being treated at Cohen's Children's Hospital. According to ABC Eyewitness News, the dead teen, Sanjay Samuel, a high school freshman, was in the Dunkin' Doughnuts parking lot with his friends on Monday when...

Just over a week after reports surfaced of a $5 million theft at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has instituted charges against 30-year-old Dikimbie Gittens, an assistant accountant of Onderneeming, Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara. The money reportedly went missing between September 15 and 16, 2025, from GECOM's Secretariat at Barrack and Fort Streets, Kingston,...

As Police continue their eradication exercise, approximately $62 million worth of cannabis found at Low Wood, Demerara River, was destroyed on Thursday. Police stated that a team travelled to Low Wood, where they discovered a roughly one acre plot of land containing about 1500 cannabis plants ranging from two to five feet in height. In addition, a makeshift camp...

Twenty-year-old Norvin Oneil, a fisherman of Westbury, Essequibo, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), was on Tuesday granted bail in the sum of $500,000 on a rape charge. The accused, who was accused of raping a female under the age of 16 between March 1 and May 21, 2024, appeared before Magistrate Ravindra Mohabir at the Anna Regina Magistrate's Court, where the indictable...