The Region Ten Tourism Committee has announced a series of activities for Tourism Awareness Month in November, aimed at promoting the region’s attractions, preserving its heritage and encouraging community participation. Committee President Lawrence Simon outlined the plans.

The theme celebrates the region’s rich bauxite mining history while highlighting opportunities for tourism development.

The month-long observance begins November 1 with an environmental clean-up at Kara Kara Blue Lake and an A

The Drivers’ License process went online today during a launch at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.

This portal gives Guyanese the opportunity now to register, prepare for and sit the theoretical driver's licence examination online.

The initiative, a partnership involving the Government of Guyana, the Ministries of Education, Home Affairs and Public Service, and the Guyana Digital School, will see students aged 16 among the first beneficiaries.

The newly launched digital dri

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has observed the wanton dissemination of a particular video footage on social media and the highly prejudicial commentary ongoing about it. As a result, we are forced to state the following:

1. This video footage forms part of the prosecution’s case in certain criminal proceedings pending at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and was disclosed to Defense Counsel in court on Friday the 06th day of November 2026.

2. That this video footage is merely one l

Preparations for Guyana’s 2027 National Budget are progressing, with the Ministry of Finance already reviewing submissions from government ministries and examining proposed programmes, projects and priorities for the upcoming fiscal year.

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh, provided the update during an interview with the Department of Public Information (DPI) on Friday, on the sidelines of the sod turning ceremony for the new Amerindian Hostel

THE United States has again rejected claims that its extradition case against Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed is politically driven.

A senior US Embassy official said the charges come from evidence of wrongdoing, not from Guyana’s politics.

Jarrod Crockett, Public Affairs Officer at the US Embassy in Georgetown, as reported by Kiskadee Watch, said that the US justice system operates independently of foreign political processes.

“The

Guyana’s drive toward renewable energy and sustainable transport has accelerated with the commissioning of the country’s first solar-powered electric vehicle charging station at the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus. 

The facility, a collaboration between the UNDP Guyana and the Guyana Energy Agency under the Just Energy Transition Seed Funding Initiative, is the first of four solar-powered EV charging stations being established across the country.