Guyana Times

Tagenarine Chanderpaul is set to return to Test cricket next month, when the West Indies take on India in the first Test in Ahmedabad. Since playing his last Test in January 2024, the young left-hander’s form has dipped, and despite scoring only one fifty in his last five first-class innings, West Indies Head Coach Daren Sammy remains confident that Chanderpaul...

The Guyana Amazon Warriors (GAW) Women’s duo of Ashmini Munisar and Realeanna Grimmond were standout performers in the recently concluded Massy Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL). Munisar and Grimmond enjoyed playing in the CPL on home soil in Guyana, and, despite their team finishing as runners-up in the tournament, the young duo were bright sparks from a West Indian perspective. Munisar...

Cricket West Indies (CWI) has congratulated Candace La Borde and Jacquline Williams on their selection to the Emirates International Cricket Council (ICC) Panel of Match Officials for the upcoming ICC Women’s World Cup, which will take place in India and Sri Lanka from September 30 to November 2. Their appointments are part of a historic first, as the tournament will...

A man who stepped in on Friday to help the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts by translating for a Spanish-speaking defendant in another trial while waiting in the dock for his own trial was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment that same day. Forty-eight-year-old Sunil Adnarine was sentenced after pleading guilty to larceny. The charge stated that between September 15 and 16, 2025, at...

A Lodge Housing Scheme Georgetown couple appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Friday, where they were both charged with assault, unlawful wounding, threatening behaviour, and the use of threatening language, which were committed against each other during a dispute. The defendants, Michael Alleyen and his wife, Shonetta Alleyen, stood before Magistrate Annette Singh, and both pleaded not guilty to...

The Education Ministry has condemned two recent incidents of bullying that occurred among secondary school students in Regions Two and Four, and has moved to launch investigations into the matter. The first case involved students from Charity Secondary School and 8th of May Secondary School in Region Two, while the second took place at the New Campbellville Secondary School in...

A Sheriff Security guard was on Friday arraigned before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court after allegedly threatening a woman and hurling a bottle in her direction during a dispute in Charlestown. The accused, 38-year-old Alfred Benjamin, stood before Magistrate Annette Singh and pleaded not guilty to the allegations. According to the charge, on September 15, 2025, at Charlestown, Georgetown, Benjamin...

...says initiatives will create an investor-friendly environment The local private sector has thrown its support behind the Guyana Government’s plans for the advancement of digitalisation in the country and the renewed enhancement of the capital city under Project Rescue Georgetown. At a press conference earlier this week, President Dr Irfaan Ali outlined plans to push efficiency and modernisation in Guyana through...

Eleven families from Georgetown and West Bank Demerara (WBD) are now proud homeowners after receiving keys to brand-new core homes under the Ministry of Housing and Water’s Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Programme (AHUAP). The beneficiaries—five from Sophia, Georgetown, and six from Parfaite Harmonie, Region Three—were handed their keys during a ceremony led by Minister of Housing Collin Croal,...

A West Ruimveldt vendor was on Friday before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where he was accused of attacking a man with a baseball bat during a heated confrontation. Joshua Marshall, 26, stood before Magistrate Annette Singh and denied the allegation that on September 17 at West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, he unlawfully assaulted Nigel Hawk. In court, Marshall explained that although Hawk...