The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Sunday castigated government for Guyana being blacklisted by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The Antigua-based WICB has announced that the New Zealand Test match would be moved from Guyana because the recently passed Cricket Administration Bill essentially allows for governmental interference in the running of the game. While the AFC had noted voted ...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board on Saturday announced that it has pulled the New Zealand test match from Guyana after the board and the Donald Ramotar administration failed to reach agreement on the independent governance of cricket in the country. “As a consequence the WICB is left with no option but to relocate the Third Test ...

Weather forecasters Saturday night warned that there could be flooding in some coastal areas due to heavy rainfall coupled with the Spring Tide. “Flash Flood warning is in effect for flood prone areas within Regions 1 to 4,” according to a weather bulletin issued through the Ministry of Agriculture. Forecasters said a lot of the rain is expected to in ...

Electricity theft by GPL consumers issued pre-paid meters has reached levels that are causing the company’s management to worry. This was disclosed by CEO Bharat Dindyal at a public forum on Friday. The prepaid meter system was introduced in 2009 as part of the company’s loss reduction efforts and to improve customer consumption. “We’re seeing about nine percent of the ...

A Tug Operator was killed after the tug he was on capsized in the Demerara River late Saturday morning a short distance from the Harbour Bridge. Traffifc across the east-west thooughfare was halted for one hour around 2 PM to facilitate the salvaging of the two-engine vessel that is owned by the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation. The corporation said 57-year-old and ...

Less than one month before results are due to be announced, the Ministry of Education on Friday said there were “irregularities in the conduct” of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examination at a school in Region One- Barima/Waini. The ministry said “no other irregularities were found in any of the other schools in Guyana.” Authorities said the discovery of ...

A lawyer representing the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Friday night warned that immunity from prosecution in the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry does not prevent persons from being charged privately or through international proceedings. Canada-based Attorney-at-Law, Selwyn Pieters  told the Commission’s Administrator,  Hugh Denbow and Attorney-at-Law, Nicole Pierre that  “While the Commission has reminded us at the commencement of ...

The Guyana Power and Light has recorded some $30.6B in revenue for 2013, an increase of some $1.6B on the previous year’s figure. The information was shared at a public forum on Friday which also examined first quarter figures for this year. Generation costs fell from $27.1B to $25.7B according to the information presented by Divisional Director – Finance, Loris ...

Guyanese anti-drug agents are looking for two men who they believe can assist them and their Trinidadian counterparts in probing the discovery of a large quantity of cocaine in agricultural produce. Sources said 4.5 kilogrammes of cocaine were intercepted by Trinidadian authorities at the Piarco International Airport on May 29, 2014. The narcotic was concealed in a shipment of raw ...

Working People’s Alliance (WPA) co-founder, Eusi Kwayana on Friday charged that Donald Rodney was made a scapegoat for the bomb-blast death of his brother, Dr. Walter Rodney, 30 years ago to shift blame away from the then Forbes Burnham-led Peoples National Congress (PNC) administration. Kwayana is basing his conclusion on a statement by Donald that then Guyana Defence Force (GDF) ...