By News Source Guyana on July 5, 2016
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The results of the 2016 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) were released by the Ministry of Education on Tuesday with two students gaining the #1 spot. The two students who gained the top position are Anthony Ferriea from Mae’s Under 12 and Anya Singh from the Dharmic Rama Krishna Primary School. Both students gained 568 […]
By News Source Guyana on July 5, 2016
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The vacation spot for a Guyanese woman has changed and she will now face charges for cocaine trafficking after being busted at the Cheddi Jagan airport with 1.5 pounds of cocaine hidden in a straw bag that she was carrying. The 26-year-old woman was about to board a New York bound flight when the bust […]
By News Source Guyana on July 5, 2016
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Guyana has received fresh commitments from the Trinidadian Government to develop its oil and gas industry. On the sidelines of the opening of the 37th CARICOM Heads of Government meeting on Monday, Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley said his government is ready to offer whatever help it could to Guyana. The Twin […]
By News Source Guyana on July 4, 2016
Caribbean & International, News, Politics
by Kurt Campbell Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Monday called on CARICOM leaders to urgently address the increased cases of denial of entry of regional citizens into fellow CARICOM member states. Prime Minister Holness made the call while delivering an address at the opening of the 37th Heads of Government meeting of CARICOM in […]
By News Source Guyana on July 4, 2016
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Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, used his statement at the opening of the CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting in Georgetown to wail into critics of the regional body. The Prime Minister lashed out at those who used the newspapers to talk about CARICOM being a comotose body, telling the […]
By News Source Guyana on July 4, 2016
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CARICOM Leaders gathered in Georgetown, Guyana for their 37th Regular Meeting, stood in silence and paid tribute to the former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Patrick Manning, who died last Saturday. In paying tribute, CARICOM Secretary General, Ambassador Irwin LaRoque said he could not begin the meeting without first paying tribute to the late […]
By News Source Guyana on July 4, 2016
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(NY Daily News) A father of four and his 23-year-old girlfriend were found shot to death in a Brooklyn home Sunday afternoon, in what police are investigating as a murder-suicide. Police believe Christopher Pickering, 37, blasted Elizabeth Thompkins in the head in their Central Ave. home near Hancock St. in Bushwick, and then turned the […]
By News Source Guyana on July 4, 2016
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A suspected drug addict, who would do odd jobs outside the old GNCB building at Stabroek, ran and surrendered to the Police early Monday morning after stabbing another man to death during an argument. According to vendors, who were close by, the two men started an argument but were mostly ignored until it escalated and […]
By News Source Guyana on July 4, 2016
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A West Demerara woman is in police custody and claiming self defense after she stabbed her lover to death during a heated late Saturday night argument. The dead man has been identified as 42-year-old Frederick Peters. He was pronounced dead at the West Demerara hospital after being rushed there with stab wounds about his body. […]
By News Source Guyana on July 3, 2016
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The U.S Embassy here in Georgetown has been increasing the total number of visitors visas being issued to Guyanese nationals over the past few years and successful visa applicants are being encouraged to use their visas in keeping with the US Laws and not overstay their time in the U.S. Outgoing Deputy Chief of Mission […]