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Gudakesh Motie claimed four wickets after Rahmanullah Gurbaz struck an attacking half-century to lead the Guyana Amazon Warriors to a 53-run victory over the Lahore Qalandars at the Guyana National Stadium on Sunday night.
Marcel Esonwune scored at the buzzer to hand Nigeria a dramatic 20-19 victory over Guyana and end the national men’s 3×3 basketball team’s Commonwealth Games campaign in Glasgow, Scotland, today.
Kavem Hodge’s fourth Test half-century put West Indies in a position of command at the end of the first day in Trinidad yesterday.
Belizean jurist Godfrey P Smith will chair the Commission of Inquiry into the capsizing of the MV Barima which has claimed 73 lives with dozens of others thought to be missing.
By Alva Solomon Alva Solomon is a Guyanese journalist who works as a senior reporter with the Royal Gazette newspaper in Bermuda Last weekend, I was celebrating a milestone I achieved in my journalism career, an occasion which transformed from joy to utmost horror, in minutes.
Mindful Guyana Inc will today, Sunday, July 26, 2026, at 6:30pm, at Main Street Avenue, Georgetown hold a candlelight vigil for those who perished in last Saturday’s capsizing of the MV Barima in the Atlantic Ocean.
-opposition criticise exclusion from process With 73 persons dead and others missing, President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced that he will unveil a five-member “independent” international Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the MV Barima tragedy today, drawing criticism from the joint opposition over their exclusion from the process.
Dear Editor, The tragic loss of lives in the MV Barima disaster has shaken our nation.
-Kaituma survivors of ferry tragedy complain about treatment Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed last evening urged residents of Port Kaituma to prepare for nationwide protests as he visited survivors of the MV Barima tragedy and relatives of those who perished, many of whom complained about the treatment they received in the aftermath of the disaster.
Dear Editor, Last Sunday morning, July 19, 2026, the nation awoke to the news that the MV Barima had capsized near Iron Punt, off the Pomeroon coast, while on a scheduled voyage from Georgetown to Port Kaituma.
The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday said that as a matter of principle and in keeping with their responsibility to the people of Guyana, they had taken the decision to work collaboratively with the Joint Opposition Parties on the MV Barima disaster and on other significant issues.
“I know my baby is in that boat,” Samantha Ramin told reporters at Charity during last week, where families have gathered since last Sunday awaiting news of loved ones.
The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) yesterday said that it registered a 43% increase in after-tax profit for the first half of this year compared to the corresponding period last year.
GMSA considers ‘buy local’ push The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) is considering advocating measures to reduce the importation of school shirts and strengthen the competitiveness of local garment manufacturers after meeting with representatives of the country’s uniform and sewn goods sector.
Dear Editor, The recently highlighted financial and operational collapse of the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) is not a sudden event but the tragic culmination of decades of mismanagement, a stark betrayal of the department’s history and its foundational mandate.
Guyanese officials Shavin Greene and Brandon Cyrus have been appointed to officiate at the Concacaf Under-20 Championship in Mexico.
-spent five hours on the water struggling to stay alive At 18-years-old, Dwayne Atkins, a survivor of the MV Barima tragedy, already had a wife and baby, but as fate would have it, their lives were snatched away by the fierce waters of the Atlantic Ocean before he had a chance to save them.
Guyana’s men’s 3×3 basketball team will face Nigeria and 2022 silver medallists Australia today as it seeks a place in the knockout stage of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
Slingerz FC produced a relentless second-half comeback to defeat home side Prison Service FC 4-3 and book their place in the quarter-finals of the Caribbean Football Union Club Shield in Trinidad and Tobago.
Just days after burying his wife and their three young children, Safraz Nathaniel Matabheek is left trying to rebuild a life shattered by the sinking of the MV Barima.
