Guyana News

 The latest Guyana news from Stabroek News including oil and gas coverage, crime, politics, culture, business and more.

The basic problem is the extremely inefficient way in which City Hall is run

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Clarence Ellis’s letter captioned “The creeping dictatorship can be reversed by local government reform” (07.01.25) wherein he speaks of (i) the need for greater local government powers and (ii) where he urges the City Council of Georgetown to press the Central Government for more money, indeed enormous sums of money.

Tastes Like Home

Hi Everyone, Two things can come to a person’s mind when you invite them to your home – “I wonder what wonderful things we will eat” or “I hope that she is not making (Fill in the blank) again”.

Culture Box

We are happy that Nicole Osbourne neither won nor made it into the top five of the recently concluded Carib Soca Monarch competition.

Girl, two, drowns in trench at Buxton

A mother is in grief after her two-year-old daughter yesterday afternoon fell overboard and drowned while going to a Strathspey, East Coast Demerara (ECD) shop to purchase a pack of biscuits.

Cocaine worth $5.3M found hidden in vegetables on plane

(Trinidad Guardian) Law enforcement officers assigned to the Organised Crime, Narcotics and Firearms Bureau (OCNFB) who reportedly seized cocaine valued $5.3 million, believe they have made a major dent in a drug smuggling operation between T&T, Guyana and Canada.

Conservation corner

Guyana hosts important nesting sites for at least three of the five endangered marine turtle species in the Atlantic.

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