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Supplementary Financial Paper Number 1 of 2026, totalling $54.9 billion, will be up for consideration during Monday's sitting of the National Assembly, Senior Minister in...

Psychologist Raiza Khan has warned that the psychological toll of the MV Barima disaster will extend well beyond the search and rescue phase, with recovery...

After a life marked by dedication and sacrifice, 54-year-old Orin Anthony Clarke was given a respectful final farewell. Clarke, a crew member aboard the ill-fated...

Venezuela has formally notified ​the United Nations ‌of its "irrevocable" decision to ​withdraw from ​the International Criminal Court, ⁠Foreign Minister ​Felix Plasencia said ​on Friday....

Four coffins, one family: a mother and her three young children were laid to rest together on Friday, victims of the MV Barima disaster that...

The MV Barima tragedy has demonstrated the value of modern maritime safety equipment, with an integrated system of emergency beacons, life rafts, distress flares, search...

Guyana is uniquely positioned to turn migration into a real force for development, International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Director General Amy Pope said during a...

President Dr Irfaan Ali has expressed condolences on the passing of Dr Ian McDonald, describing him as a distinguished Caribbean literary figure whose life and...

Opposition Member of Parliament Amanza Walton-Desir has called for the establishment of a permanent independent Transportation Safety Investigation Board under Parliament to investigate aviation, maritime,...

Former Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson has urged authorities to conduct immediate inspections of all passenger vessels operating within the national fleet to determine...

An interim cargo arrangement has been announced to maintain the delivery of essential supplies to Port Kaituma while normal transport services remain affected, the Ministry...

Guyana Amazon Warriors secured a three-wicket victory over the San Francisco Unicorns under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method in the second match of the ExxonMobil Global...

Guyana Amazon Warriors and ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League announced on Wednesday that all proceeds from ticket sales for the Final will be donated to...

The number of bodies recovered from the MV Barima disaster has risen to 57, of which 44 have been positively identified, the Government said on...

The Government is moving to establish an independent Commission of Inquiry into the MV Barima tragedy, Prime Minister Brigadier (Ret'd) Mark Phillips said on Wednesday,...

With four days almost elapsed since the tragic sinking of the MV Barima on Saturday night, 22-year-old Antoine Harcourt of Lichfield Village, West Coast Berbice,...

Every time Orin Anthony Clarke came home from the sea, he came home with something for her. Casareep. Cassava bread. Whatever produce her small business...

Days before he died in the MV Barima disaster, 28-year-old crew member Kevin Carl Wilson told his mother he had found the woman he planned...

A 39-year-old clerk attached to the New Amsterdam Hospital is counting her losses after the two-storey wooden house she rented at Lot 22 Palmyra was...

Naval and coast guard reinforcements from Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago are due to arrive in Guyana on Wednesday, bolstering an intensifying search for those...

Saturday, July 18, 2026 • The MV Barima, a passenger and cargo ferry built in 1939, departs Georgetown bound for Port Kaituma, North West District,...

A 28-year-old Essequibo Coast man died on Monday afternoon after he was reportedly electrocuted. Kelton Benn, of Dartmouth Village, had gone to use an outdoor...

Eight persons were injured following a head-on collision between two boats in the vicinity of Pat Walla, Canje Creek, Berbice, on Tuesday, police said. The...

Three days of national mourning will be observed from Wednesday to Friday in honour of victims of the MV Barima tragedy, President Dr Irfaan Ali...

Seventy-seven persons have been rescued and 41 bodies recovered so far in the MV Barima ferry disaster, the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) said on...

The anguish continues for the family of 57-year-old sailor Raymond Somra of Islington, Greater New Amsterdam, who remains among those reported missing following the maritime...

The Ministry of Home Affairs is urging anyone with firsthand information, photographs, videos or other evidence relating to the sinking of the MV Barima ferry...

Authorities remain hopeful that survivors could still be found inside the submerged MV Barima, despite the rising death toll, as rescue teams intensify efforts to...

The total number of people believed to have been aboard the MV Barima when it sank off the Essequibo Coast has been revised to 179,...

"I just pray that they find him and that he comes home safe," said Esther Frank, mother of missing MV Barima crew member Rawle Frank,...

The Government of Guyana has ordered a full, independent investigation into the sinking of the MV Barima, as authorities continue an around-the-clock rescue and recovery...

The MV Barima has been located following aggressive and coordinated action by various stakeholders, Minister of Public Utilities and Aviation Deodat Indar said. The potential...

Twenty-one-year-old cricketer Ayinde Rogers died following a motor vehicle accident along the Trafalgar Public Road, West Coast Berbice, in the early hours of Monday morning....

Ten people have been confirmed dead following the sinking of the MV Barima, the Government of Guyana said on Monday, as search-and-rescue operations continued off...

Andy Burnham has said his arrival in power will be a "circuit breaker" moment for Britain, pledging that his government will restore hope to millions...

Doctors, counsellors and social workers fanned out across three regions on Sunday in a sweeping effort to treat survivors and comfort families still waiting for...

The MV Barima was operating within its scheduled maintenance programme and had not been declared unseaworthy before its fatal voyage, contrary to claims circulating on...

The entire management team responsible for the loading, dispatch and overall management of the MV Barima has been sent off from duty. This decisive action,...

Spain deservedly won a desperately disappointing World Cup final as Ferran Torres' extra-time strike finally broke the resistance of 10-man Argentina. The European champions had...

For Eve Jerome, Saturday night's sinking of the MV Barima has turned her life upside down. While she survived the tragedy, her two children, three-year-old...