Stories published on this date.
—lawyer challenges Hicken’s authority and calculation of leave entitlement Deputy Commissioner of Police and Head of the Special Organised Crime Unit Fazil Karimbaksh has challenged Commissioner Clifton Hicken’s authority to compel him to take pre-retirement or administrative leave and has threatened legal proceedings if either measure is imposed without lawful authority.
Three masked men armed with a handgun, a baseball bat and a cutlass robbed an East Canje businessman of $10 million, representing approximately three days’ sales, last evening, police said.
(ESPN) Finally, at the sixth time of asking, a total has been defended successfully on West Indies’ tour of India.
DUBAI/RIYADH, (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthis warned airlines, travellers and airport workers today to stay away from Saudi airports, a day after an attack on Riyadh’s international airport killed 12 people and wounded more than 300 others.
A canter yesterday smashed into Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) infrastructure on the Mahaica Public Road and the driver has said he will pay for the damage.
Guyana’s five cyclists will turn their attention to today’s road race at the Caribbean Cycling Union (CCU) Elite and Under-23 Championships in the Dominican Republic after Briton John and Aaron Newton completed their time-trial assignments yesterday.
Aaron Vasconcellos scored twice as Santos’ four-goal first half paved the way for a 4–2 victory over Police in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Elite League U17 Ensemble competition at the Tucville Ground yesterday.
Fans heading to today’s Berbice Invasion Drag Race Meet will have access to four designated parking areas and shuttle buses as organisers prepare to welcome spectators to the Rose Hall Canje Airstrip.
WPA: this ‘rare and special spirit walked among us with a deliberate purpose that touched the core of Guyana’ After more than eight decades in public activism during which social justice was at the centre of his work, Eusi Kwayana passed away yesterday at the age of 101, one of the last witnesses to the struggle for independence and the post-colonial period in Guyana.
-grief, distrust and unanswered questions dominated MV Barima CoI meeting with families “I looked up for the life jackets.
-workers pressing for $145m in retroactive payments A proposed relocation of the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) head office to Berbice has not been officially communicated to employees, a senior staff member has said, as 258 non-unionised senior employees continue to press management for approximately $145 million in outstanding retroactive salary payments.
It could be said that the career of Robert Corbin straddled two important eras in Guyana’s post-Independence history.
Dear Editor, I write to respectfully reject the position advanced by Mr. Clement Rohee in his recent letter, dated October 8, 2026, and captioned “Cheddi Jagan was the central figure in the October 5th story.”
By Harry Husbands Harry Husbands is a man of many parts. He was an educator, trade union leader, business executive, politician, senator, radio talk show host and a newspaper columnist.
A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) parliamentarian Terrence Campbell has denied reports circulating on social media that he was held at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) after allegedly being found with 43 rounds of live ammunition while preparing to travel to Trinidad and Tobago.
Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Priya Manickchand has questioned the handling of National Border Patrol Director Daniel Seeram’s case following his conviction for assaulting his former wife, insisting that the law must be applied consistently regardless of an accused person’s status or legal representation.
Dear Editor, Robert Corbin, who passed on October 4th, the day before the anniversary of the return of free and fair elections in Guyana in 1992, played an outsized role as a leader of the PNC in politics before and after that date.
Guyana’s tourism sector is poised for further growth, with the country’s accommodation capacity projected to approach 6,000 rooms by the end of 2026, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported yesterday.
The transformation of the Parika Ferry Stelling continues to take shape, according to a release yesterday from the Ministry of Public Works.
Seventy-five-year-old pensioner Abdool Nazir and his wife, Zanita Persaud, are now homeowners after receiving a newly constructed house through the Men on Mission (MoM), according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).
