Chief Executive Officer of GPL relieved of duties

The Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Power and Light Company, Bharat Dindyal has been formally notified that the government no longer requires his services. Dindyal, whose contract with GPL, expired since last December was informed yesterday that his engagement with the company will expire today Friday, August 14th at 4pm. Cabinet was informed of […]

15-year-old driver and 19-year-old friend die in Essequibo accident

Two teenaged friends were killed in a late night Essequibo accident at Lima when the car they were in crashed through a fence as the 15-year-old driver lost control. The accident occurred just after midnight Thursday morning. The driver of the car, 15-year-old Dedesh Mohabir and his 19-year-old friend, Rupesh Jado both died as doctors […]

Two prisoners escape from New Amsterdam Prison using bed sheets

In a move that appeared like the script of a movie, two remand prisoners who were recently charged for an armed robbery in New Amsterdam, made a daring escape from the New Amsterdam prison on Wednesday night, using bed sheets. The two escapees have been identified as Ravindra Samaroo aka “Ravi” and Lennox Patterson who […]

CARIFESTA preview for Theatre Guild

The XII Edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) will be held from August 21st to 30th, in Haiti under the theme “Our Roots, Our Culture, Our Common Future.” Guyana will be sending an eighty member contingent to cultural event. However, before the team heads to Haiti, the Theatre Guild will open its doors […]

The cars of the Cuban trade embargo

(BBC)  Two things have arguably shaped modern Cuba above all others – Fidel Castro and Washington’s answer to him… its decades-long trade embargo. When US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Cuba on Friday to unveil the new US embassy he will find one effect of the embargo staring him in the face, on […]

Chile Mines Turn to Renewable Energy

(WSJ)   CALAMA, Chile—The three industrial boilers at the state-owned Codelco mine high in the mountains here once consumed 67,000 barrels of diesel a year to turn out shiny copper sheets for export. Now, the job is powered by nearly 3,000 solar panels that take advantage of the Atacama Desert’s cloudless blue sky. As the cost […]

Suriname’s Bouterse sworn in for second presidential term

(Reuters)  Desi Bouterse,  a former military ruler convicted of drug trafficking in the Netherlands, was sworn in for a second five-year term as president of Suriname on Wednesday. Bouterse’s National Democratic Party (NDP) in May won a slim majority in the small South American country’s National Assembly. The country’s parliament then automatically ratified the 69-year-old’s […]

President meets UNASUR Secretary General and raises Venezuela’s threats

President David Granger, in pledging Guyana’s support to the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), stated that Guyana can serve as a bridge between UNASUR and CARICOM. Earlier today, President Granger, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Honorable Carl Greenidge and Guyana’s Ambassador to Suriname, Mr. Keith George met with UNASUR’s Secretary General Dr. Ernesto Samper Pizano, […]