By Abigail Headley President Irfaan Ali secured the highest number of votes of the 35 delegates elected to the Central Committee during the People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP) 32nd Congress.
-says Ali at party’s 32nd Congress Guyana’s ongoing transformation and projected growth will continue under the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government.
The Linden Town Week Business Exposition got underway yesterday with support from the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA). In this photograph a visitor points to one of the GTA’s brochure while being supported by a staff member. (GTA photo)
The report by the Media Institute of the Caribbean (MIC) on Guyana’s Access to Information Act of 2011 underlines again the shortcomings of this piece of legislation which was meant to be a critical adjunct to transparency in government but which has barely functioned.
A Guyanese from the South Rupununi has been awarded with a prize by a prestigious UK charity for his efforts in the Indigenous-led protection and conservation of an endangered bird.
Clifton Hinds, 38, of Sarah Johanna Squatting Area was granted bail in the sum of $500,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Diamond Magistrate’s Court on a charge of felonious wounding.
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KFC Elite League – GDF leads standings due to superior goal difference Defending champion and undefeated league leader, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), and second-place outfit Slingerz FC battled to a scoreless draw in their final matches of round one in the KFC Elite League on Saturday evening at the National Training Centre, Providence.
– defeats Joshi in a marathon battle Jessica Callender emerged triumphant in a successful defence of her women’s title after a four-hour-long battle yesterday with 13-year-old Aditi Joshi, who finished as the runner-up at the Guyana Chess Federation’s (GCF) 2024 National Women’s Championship.
The Ravens and Pacesetters recorded comfortable wins when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association’s (GABA) U-23 Men’s League continued on Saturday evening at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.
(Trinidad Guardian) Four people are dead, and eight others wounded following a shooting in Cocorite, on Saturday night.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – More than a million people thronged Brazil’s Copacabana beach for a free Madonna concert yesterday, braving the heat to see the end of her “Celebration” world tour.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Heavy rains in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul this week killed at least 55 people, local authorities said last evening, while dozens remain unaccounted for.
JERUSALEM/DOHA (Reuters) – Israeli authorities raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its office after the government decided to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station’s local operations on Sunday, an Israeli official and an Al Jazeera source told Reuters.
CAIRO/DOHA (Reuters) – Prospects for a Gaza ceasefire appeared slim on Sunday as Hamas reiterated its demand for an end to the war in exchange for the freeing of hostages, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flatly ruled that out.
PARIS (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping lauded China’s ties with France as an international model on Sunday as he arrived in Paris for a rare visit against a backdrop of mounting trade disputes with the EU.
