Demerara Waves

What is Demerara Waves?

Demerara Waves is a digital news publisher in Guyana. Its own footer states that “Demerara Waves Media Inc. is a Guyana-based digital news media company committed to delivering timely, credible, and relevant news coverage”, and the site carries a sports category in its main navigation.^[1] That description is the publisher's own and is attributed to it.

It publishes online rather than over the air. The statutory broadcast regulator, the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority, describes its own remit as covering “all television, cable and radio broadcasters in the Co-operative Republic of Guyana”, which is a different field from online publishing.^[4] Reporters Without Borders, in its 2026 World Press Freedom Index entry for Guyana, records that alongside the national dailies “there are several private newscasts, radio stations and online news services”, and ranks Guyana 76th of 180 with a score of 59.58, on indicator scores of 40.05 political, 48.99 economic, 58.50 legal, 63.79 social and 86.56 security.^[5] The same entry records that “a major daily newspaper, The Stabroek News, announced its closure in 2026 after 40 years of publication”, which is the change against which the remaining publishers in this market are read.^[5]

What does Demerara Waves cover?

Its sports category publishes intermittently rather than daily, and the dated rows show what it covers. The items listed there run: “One Communications supports Guyana women's field hockey team”, 18 September 2024; “One Communications Guyana women's hockey team victorious in opener against Brazil”, 22 September 2024; “Enet's inaugural golf tournament tees off this Sunday at Lusignan Golf Club”, 26 September 2024; “Hackett, Adams storm ahead in respective categories on Day 1 of the DSB Golf Open”, 12 October 2024; “Record-breaking Brava Guyana Open begins with whopping 104 players”, 2 November 2024; “Former national cyclist dies in motorcycle incident”, 4 September 2025; “Guyana Cricket Board gets new logo”, 14 June 2026; and “‘Careful planning' increasing Guyana's international sport profile”, 9 July 2026.^[2]

Between them those rows cover golf, field hockey, cycling and the administration of cricket, rather than match reporting on the national fixtures.^[2]

How large is Demerara Waves's audience?

No audited audience measurement figure for Demerara Waves, and no audience measurement currency for Guyana, could be retrieved for this page. Traffic estimators are not audited measurement and no figure from one is given here.

The site publishes no circulation or traffic claim of its own beyond the description of itself as a digital news media company.^[1] RSF's 2026 index entry describes the market rather than any one publisher, recording that “Guyana enjoys a diversity of national and regional media outlets” and that “Independent and opposition media outlets struggle to compete” on advertising.^[5]

What can be dated instead is output. The publisher's sports category lists its items with their dates, running from 18 September 2024 to 9 July 2026, and those rows are the only measure of the desk's activity that the site itself publishes; it states no total.^[2] The 9 July 2026 item is a reported piece with a named official on the record rather than a wire summary.^[3]

Since when has Demerara Waves existed?

The site states no founding year for itself, and no independent source establishing one could be retrieved for this page.^[1] What can be dated is its publishing: its sports category carries items from 18 September 2024 through 9 July 2026, and the 9 July 2026 item is a reported piece with named sources rather than an aggregation.^[2][3]

Because it is a digital-only publisher, it does not appear in the broadcast licensing record that would otherwise give a dated regulatory anchor; the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority's published list covers cable, television and radio broadcasters.^[4]

Why does Demerara Waves matter in Guyana's sport?

It reports the policy side of sport with named officials on the record. On 9 July 2026 it quoted Steve Ninvalle, whom it identified as “the Ministry of Sport's Director of Sport”, on a weekend in which a motor racing GT Challenge, a West Indies fixture against New Zealand and a FIBA international basketball tournament were all taking place in Guyana: “This is not by chance. It has happened because of careful planning by the government.” The same item quoted him saying “We need to have private support also in order to get us to our full potential”, and reported a donation of GY$500,000 in cash and GY$350,000 in cricket equipment by Courts, Unicomer Guyana Inc., to the Malteenoes Sports Club Cricket Academy.^[3]

That is a dated, attributed record of what the state's sport office says about hosting and funding, of a kind that the responsible bodies do not publish themselves. Its other sport rows cover sports — golf, field hockey, cycling — that the daily papers cover less often.^[2] See also the sports media list for Guyana and Guyana.