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President and Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces, retired Brigadier David Granger has revealed he summoned an emergency meeting of the Defence Board following the decree by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, claiming more of Guyana’s territory. The President would not offer details but he said a follow up meeting was also held. In an […]
The results of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) written on 01 April and 02 April 2015 are being released to schools. Fifteen thousand two hundred and twenty five (15,225) candidates were entered for this assessment. These candidates also wrote the National Grade Two Assessment in 2011 and the National Grade Four Assessment in 2013. […]
Many students were left in tears and others could not hold back their laughter as they received news of their success at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment examinations. Over at the Success Elementary School, where 25 students secured spots in the top 100, loud applause rang out continuously as former Member of Parliament Africo Selman […]
Minister of State Joseph Harmon in a shocking revelation on Thursday announced that the PetroCaribe fund, which the new APNU+AFC coalition government inherited from the previous People’s Progressive Party Civic administration, was bankrupt. The revelation means that the new government, which will not be ready with a national budget until September, has to find a […]
The Success Elementary School, which is a private school, has grabbed the top two positions at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment Examinations. Just over 15,000 students from across Guyana wrote the NGSA examinations commonly known as Common Entrance. The top student is 11-year-old Solomon Cherai of Success Elementary who gained 530 marks out of […]
Police investigators in the town of Rose Hall are probing the attempted execution of ex-policeman Ravi Outar, who was shot multiple times to his body yesterday as he sat in front his house. The incident took place just after 8:30pm on Wednesday. Reports suggest that the former cop was sitting just in front of his […]
President David Granger returned to the National Assembly today in his new role as Executive President to open the 11th Parliament and immediately extended a hand to the opposition People’s Progressive Party to take up its seats in the National Assembly and work along with his government in the interest of all the people of […]
The General Secretary of A Partnership for National Unity and Minister of State, Joe Harmon said he will be very surprised if the name of the current Chairman of Region 10, Sharma Solomon, is not among the names that the coalition will extract from its list of candidates to serve on the Regional Democratic Council. […]
Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge, has described as “baseless and shameless” the recent decree by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claiming Guyana’s territory as its own. During an address to the new parliament, Greenidge said the decree by Maduro cannot be seen as an act of sovereignty since it flies in the face of […]
Former Senior Guyanese Diplomat, Dr. Barton Scotland was on Wednesday elected the new Speaker of the National Assembly. Dr. Scotland was nominated by the Government’s Chief Whip Amna Ally and that nomination was seconded by Minister of Tourism, Ms. Cathy Hughes. After taking the oath of office, the new Speaker got down to the business […]
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