In an exciting development for drone sports and technology education in Guyana, a group of five talented youths has been selected to represent the country at the prestigious Academic Drone Soccer World Cup & Career Fair, set to take place from April 22-25, 2024, in San Diego, California. This announcement comes from the Guyana Drone Soccer program, which began its ...

The Greater Guyana Initiative (GGI) is supporting the development of Region Ten’s tourism sector through a Tourism Capacity Building Project, according to a statement issued at the weekend.  The initiative, which was officially launched on March 20, is a partnership between GGI and the Region Ten Tourism Committee (RTTC). This initiative holds significant benefits for the region as it promises ...

GTT has partnered with Climb Guyana for the easter edition of the Climb Guyana Cup. The football tournament commenced on Friday at the Aranaputa Sports Ground in the North Rupununi (Region Nine) and will conclude on Sunday, March 24. Senior Manager of Communication at GTT – Jasmin Harris, earlier this week presented a sponsorship cheque to representative of the Climb ...

by GHK Lall Guyana is abuzz.  The CIA came to Guyana and met with MIA but no BeeJay.  In plain sight, no clandestine ops, not a whiff of the undercover now very much embedded in the domestic scene.  I wonder what CBJ would think about this development.  Wonder what he would think of his political offspring now so obsequiously groveling ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus Change is unquestionably the most sought after thing in this country. Everyone wants it, including those in government. The problem is that there is too much focus on change brought about by the government, and hardly any attention paid to necessary changes within the population itself. Stated differently, we need to examine necessary changes ...

New York-based opposition activist, Rickford Burke has asked the High Court to quash the serving of a Guyana Magistrates court summons to him in New York by a Guyanese policeman, according to court documents. He wants a declaration that the purported service by Rodwell Sarabo an officer of the Guyana Police Force, in Brooklyn “is a nullity, without and in ...

The fire that burnt to death a retired Headmaster in his house at Beterverwagting was deliberately set, but so far investigators do not know who committed the act, the Guyana Fire Service said. “The cause of the fire is suspected to be malicious, with the perpetrator(s) currently unknown,” the Guyana Fire Service said Friday in its account of the blaze ...

Even as the opposition parliamentary coalition accused the Guyana government’s of double standards in dealing with Haitians in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Friday said the smuggling of Haitians to this country had a knock-on effect on other territories in the Americas. Mr Benn sought to assure that migrants facing difficulties would not be blocked ...

-Todd promises swift meeting Opposition Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amanza Walton-Desir on Friday officially wrote Foreign Affairs Minister Hugh Todd requesting a meeting of the parliiamentary bipartisan Foreign Relations Committee. Mr Todd told Demerara Waves Online News that the meeting would be called very soon on his return to Guyana. “It is going to be done. We can have ...

Guyana on  Friday sounded a strong public appeal for international help to pressure Venezuela to use the World Court to settle the territorial dispute over the Essequibo Region, a day after that Spanish-speaking nation’s National Assembly passed a law declaring Essequibo part of its territory. “Guyana calls on the international community to uphold the rule of law by rejecting Venezuela’s ...