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The three-day Rupununi Music and Arts Festival had an auspicious start at the Rock View Lodge in the Annai community of Region Nine on Friday.  It was formally opened by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, who commended the organisers for launching an event that brought performers from across the world to Guyana’s interior. He said that tourism has been identified as ...

The Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) plenary members on Friday accepted the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force’s (CFATF) proposal that Guyana and others be reviewed subsequent to the latter’s next plenary decision in May, but the Opposition is now treating lightly the interventions by Government and others in the process, President Ramotar said on Saturday. The President said that he ...

A team from the National Geographic Chanel concluded filming the 30th show of ‘Monster Fish’ in Guyana, a series that documents, aquatic ecologist Zeb Hogan in his quest to save the world’s largest fish. The team arrived in Guyana on January 30, in search of the wolf fish, locally known as the haimara. Their journey began in Massakenari, a Wai ...

The Ministry of Tourism on Thursday launched the seventh edition of Guyana Where and What, a pocket book/ guide that was published and edited by Gem Madhoo-Nascimento, and which contains detailed information about local businesses, tourist attractions, and some bit of the country’s history. This edition is printed in English and translated into Portuguese, contains photographs showcasing various activities in ...

A Guyana Court of Appeal Judge, Rabi Sukul has been asked to resign after he was disbarred by the Bar Council of England and Wales for intentionally misleading a client of his who was convicted of drug-related offences. “The acting Chancellor has requested the immediate resignation of Justice Sukul who has undertaken to do so,” the Office of the Chancellor ...

The Guyana government and the ruling Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) have issued strongly worded statements against Venezuela’s political opposition, accusing them of destabilizing the Nicolas Maduro administration. “The Government of Guyana stands in solidarity with the Government of Venezuela and fully supports its efforts at withstanding acts of destabilisation,” said the Foreign Ministry in a statement issued at the ...

City businessman, Deonarine ‘Ram’ Sanasie was shot and seriously injured while drinking with several persons opposite his business place, Ram’s Auto Spares, at Fourth and Light Streets, Alberttown. Ram was shot to one of his legs and his abdomen, a police source said. The incident occurred about 6:15 PM outside a spare shop named ‘Hose and Bolts’. A man who ...

A convict escaped from the Mazaruni Prison and was up to late Friday afternoon still at large, police said. The escapee has been identified as Steve Benjamin. He is fair in complexion and about 5 feet, 5 inches tall. Source said the man of Amerindian descent had been an inmate for just over one year. He was sentenced to four ...

Three men were Friday committed to stand trial in the High Court for the ‘septic tank’ murder of a Campbelville woman six years ago, after a second Preliminary Inquiry (PI). They are 27-year old Ralph Tyndall of ‘C’ Field, Sophia;  26-year old Anthony De Paul ‘Papa’ Hope also of ‘C’ Field Sophia and 27-year old Kevin O’Neil of Seaforth Street, ...

The dead Jamaican woman, who was found in a city hotel almost one month ago, had ingested a number of suspected cocaine pellets, police said. Her Jamaican companion who was also a guest at the hotel has not been seen or heard from since. Police said an autopsy revealed a number of ingested “pellets”, suspected to contain cocaine, were found ...