Last Updated on Sunday, 15 April 2018, 5:02 by Denis Chabrol A CBR biker was early Sunday morning killed when he apparently lost control and slammed into a steel barrier at the Russian Embassy turn, Kitty Public Road, Georgetown. Dead is Suresh Khellowan. He is listed as a gold miner.  His recently acquired driver’s licence shows that he lived at ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 15 April 2018, 4:34 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger has congratulated Troy Doris on what he described as a “golden achievement” on receiving the news of the national athlete’s outstanding performance at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which concludes on Sunday in Australia. Doris, won gold in the Triple Jump with his 16.88 metre second round leap, ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 April 2018, 20:23 by Denis Chabrol REPRODUCED FROM TRINIDAD NEWSDAY THE 11 year-old Guyanese-born student who was being denied permission to sit the May 3 Secondary Entrance Examination (SEA) will be allowed to take it after all. He was originally told he would not be able to take the exam because he was a non-national. ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 April 2018, 13:07 by Denis Chabrol Newly-minted Commonwealth triple jump gold medalist, Troy Doris, is expected to be among Guyana’s National Sport Awardees, government’s Director of Sport Christopher Jones said Saturday. Jones said he has already made efforts to contact Doris to ascertain when he would be coming to Guyana or if he would be ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 April 2018, 7:56 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s Troy Doris bagged the gold in the men’s triple jump at the Commonwealth Games. In field events action, Troy Doris won the triple jump for Guyana with his 16.88m leap from the second round, reported Athletics Weekly. Dominica’s Yordanys Durañona secured silver and Cameroon’s Marcel Mayack II bronze as England’s ...

Last Updated on Friday, 13 April 2018, 19:53 by Denis Chabrol Finance Minister, Winston Jordan on Friday said government would put place safeguards to prevent a steep revaluation of the Guyana dollar as a result of expected large inflows of United States (US) dollars  from oil earnings. “I will indicate to you that there could possibly be some appreciation of the ...

Last Updated on Friday, 13 April 2018, 15:31 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Gold Board (GGB) will have to mull whether to remove its laboratory in the wake of above normal mercury levels in 60 of the more than 130 workers of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) that have been tested so far, Minister of Natural Resources Raphael ...

Last Updated on Friday, 13 April 2018, 13:21 by Denis Chabrol The US$18 million ExxonMobil signing bonus, which was  initially deposited in the Bank of Guyana, has been transferred overseas to an interest-bearing account, Finance Minister Winston Jordan said. “If it stays here, it will sit down doing nothing. It can’t earn interest if it stays here so it’s in ...

Last Updated on Friday, 13 April 2018, 12:57 by Denis Chabrol Guyana will be spending US$20 million on preparing the country get its rightful share of earnings that oil companies like ExxonMobil have agreed to pay government, Finance Minister Winston Jordan said Friday. “Unless we can get processes, legislation, bodies and monies all coming together, it will be a difficult ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 12 April 2018, 16:33 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo came out in swinging defence of former Finance Minster, Dr. Ashni Singh and former Head of the Privatisation Unit, Winston Brassington who have been charged with misconduct in public office. “In three years, that’s all you can charge for ? procedural errors and we don’t ...