Guyana Times

What is Guyana Times?

Guyana Times is a daily newspaper published in Georgetown by Guyana Times Inc. The title's own About page states that it was “First published on June 6, 2008”, describes the paper as having “journeyed where no other Guyanese daily had gone before, with full colour, broadsheet style and a developmental perspective on news”, and records that the group also includes Television Guyana Inc Channel 28 and Radio Guyana Inc, with distribution extending to readers in New York and Toronto.^[1] Those are the publisher's claims about itself.

One of them is independently checkable against the regulator. The Guyana National Broadcasting Authority, which describes itself as “the regulatory body responsible for overseeing all television, cable and radio broadcasters in the Co-operative Republic of Guyana” and states that it “was established on 28th August 2012, subsequent to the development of the 2011 Broadcasting Act”, publishes a list of licensed broadcasters in which Television Guyana Inc appears among the television licensees.^[3][4] The Authority itself is statutory: section 3(1) of the Broadcasting Act 2011, Act No. 17 of 2011, provides that “There is established the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority, which shall be a body corporate…”, and section 18(1)(a) provides that “The Authority shall — (a) establish classes of licences”.^[5]

What does Guyana Times cover?

The paper publishes a sports section, and the output is daily and varied. Items dated 22 September 2026 included “Pace and Power, NA Boxing Academy ready to rumble at GBA Novice Championships”, “Drayton, Sam win as Guyana suffer 6th-round Olympiad defeats”, “South American Games…Mixed bag of results as squash, table tennis serve off”, “Hetmyer reflects on ‘bittersweet’ century, GAW exit” and a Berbice Cricket Board 50-overs first division report.^[2] Between them those cover boxing, chess, squash, table tennis and cricket, at club, county, franchise and international level.^[2]

The county-level cricket item is worth noting for what it shows about depth of coverage: Guyana's domestic cricket is organised through county boards, and the paper reports their competitions by name rather than only the franchise and regional fixtures.^[2]

How large is Guyana Times's audience?

No audited circulation figure and no audience measurement currency for Guyana could be retrieved for this page. The publisher's own account of distribution is that the paper reaches readers in Guyana and in the diaspora in New York and Toronto, and that the group operates a television channel and a radio station.^[1]

The broadcast side of the group is at least licensed and listed: the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority's published “List of Cable, Television and Radio Broadcasters”, posted by the Authority under the date 19 June 2024, carries Television Guyana Inc among the television licensees.^[3][4] The Authority publishes licence classes — television, radio, cable and a community broadcasting service, each capable of being granted for a primary, secondary or tertiary zone — together with an annual fee schedule set under the Broadcasting (Amendment) Act 2017, in which a primary-zone television licence carries a base fee of “G$1,200,000 (base fee) Or 3.5% of gross revenue of the preceding year whichever is greater”. It publishes no audience data.^[6]

On the market as a whole, Reporters Without Borders' 2026 World Press Freedom Index entry for Guyana records that “Independent and opposition media outlets struggle to compete” on advertising and ranks Guyana 76th of 180 with a score of 59.58.^[7]

Since when has Guyana Times existed?

The publisher states that the paper was “First published on June 6, 2008”.^[1] That is the title's own account of itself, and no independent source for the date could be retrieved for this page.

The group's broadcast arms are dated differently and separately: the regulator that licenses them, the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority, states that it “was established on 28th August 2012”, which is later than the newspaper's stated founding and says nothing about when Television Guyana Inc or Radio Guyana Inc began operating.^[3] Founding, licensing and listing are three different dates and are kept apart here.

Why does Guyana Times matter in Guyana's sport?

It is a daily with a sport desk that covers the layers below the national team. Its file of 22 September 2026 carried a club boxing academy's preparation for national novice championships, a national chess team's results at an Olympiad, Guyanese results at the South American Games in two sports, and both franchise and county cricket in the same day.^[2]

It is also part of a group that holds a broadcast licence in its own right, which the regulator's published list confirms — a documented link between a newspaper's sport reporting and a television channel in the same ownership.^[1][4] See also the sports media list for Guyana and Guyana.