Tag Archives: Guyana

Big Boss Girls win Strikers Sports Club Anniversary dominoes competition

Big Boss Girls dominoes team ran out winners of a specially arranged all female teams competition celebrating the 13th anniversary of Strikers Sports Club and Bar, Meadowbrook Dive last Saturday. The competition, played at the club’s headquarters, was a two-round aggregate points system one. The teams that participated were Hammer, Turning Point, Big Girls, Spartan […]

Biden administration’s talks with Maduro gets bipartisan ‘thumbs down’ in Washington

More than either Washington or Caracas might have expected may have materialised out of the recent visit to Venezuela by a delegation of US officials, ostensibly to seek the release from custody of a handful of US oil officials and military personnel. It had been three years since the US severed relations with Venezuela  and […]

Three-man team selected for AMBC c/ships

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) has selected a three-man team to represent Guyana at the Americas Boxing Confederation (AMBC) Elite championship later this month in Ecuador.  According to a release, the team will be led by former Caribbean middleweight champion Desmond Amsterdam and includes two other former Caribbean champions.  They are light welterweight, Colin Lewis […]

Venezuela pressing to regain place as front runner among oil exporters

Reports that Venezuela’s oil sector appears to be seeking an unlikely near-term recovery, in the face of sustained efforts by the United States to further squeeze the Maduro administration through an embargo that restricts oil exports are beginning to appear increasingly credible, according to reports in the international oil and gas media.  Up to just […]

St. Lucia, Barbados ‘parade’ overseas breadfruit market openings

At a time when Caribbean food security has again surfaced as one of the more urgent concerns on the regional agenda, there are signs that part of the solution to this challenge reposes in taking a closer look at the fruits and vegetables grown in most territories in the region as at least a partial […]

Local consultants to deliver Emergency Response Training for Aurora Gold Mines employees

With considerations of occupational health and safety becoming increasingly critical across the sectors in a transforming Guyana socio-economic environment, Global People’s Services & Management Consultants Inc (GPSM)  will be delivering an eight-day Emergency Response Training Programme for employees of Aurora Gold Mines Ltd. from March 23-31, 2022.  Managing Director of GPSM Peter Benny told the […]

Guyana, Suriname business groups ink agreement on joint ventures, business development

As markedly ramped up bilateral ties between Guyana and   Suriname arising out of their new-found oil resources unfold, relations at the level of the private sector on both sides would also appear to be growing.   On February 28 a Memorandum Of Cooperation, Business Development and Investment Promotion was signed two entities from the respective countries, […]