By News Source Guyana on August 26, 2013
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Chief of Staff designate, Brigadier Mark Phillips is promising that professional will be his guide as he gets ready to take command of the Guyana Defence Force. Phillips was promoted to the rank of Brigadier just one month before he assumes leadership of the army. At a “badging” ceremony at the Office of the President […]
By News Source Guyana on August 26, 2013
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A LIAT flight from Guyana early on Monday morning experienced a main wheel failure during its take off to Barbados forcing emergency crews at the Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados to be on stand by for the arrival of the flight. According to a statement from LIAT, Flight LI 774 travelling from Guyana to […]
By News Source Guyana on August 25, 2013
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Police investigators have confirmed that a woman and a young baby were killed after a route 43 mini bus which plies the Linden to Georgetown route plunged off of the Linden Soesdyke Highway and into the Haruni creek as it approached the bridge on Sunday afternoon. The dead woman has been identified as 22-year-old Anastacia […]
By News Source Guyana on August 25, 2013
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Screams of shock and despair echoed through the Durban Street area on Sunday morning as undertakers removed the charred remains of two young children from the gutted remains of the apartment they once called home. Scores of onlookers, mostly women, broke down in tears as they saw the two badly burnt bodies, one in a […]
By News Source Guyana on August 24, 2013
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The Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo man who was wanted for the murder of his two children and the wounding of his wife was found dead on Saturday in the same community that he once called home. The man who had been identified as Richard Lord was found hanging from a tree on Saturday morning and […]
By News Source Guyana on August 24, 2013
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Opposition political party, the Alliance for Change has come under criticism across the social media landscape from many of its supporters for its decision to lend support to the Amaila Falls Hydro power project in its current form. The party has also been criticized over links between its Chairman Nigel Hughes and the Amaila Hydro […]
By News Source Guyana on August 24, 2013
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Officials of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) believe that the cocaine which was discovered in a shipment of rice from Guyana which was busted in the Dominican Republic, was placed in the shipment in Guyana. The shipment was busted on its way to Venezuela as part of the Guyana rice deal with the neighbouring […]
By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2013
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President Donald Ramotar, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Chairman of the Defence Board has approved the promotion of Colonel Mark Phillips to Brigadier. He has identified the Brigadier as the Chief -of -Staff designate and Chairman of the Joint Services Coordination Council, to assume the command and control of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) […]
By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2013
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by Rawle Toney “It doesn’t really matter who we play in the finals because at the end of the day our goal as a team is to take that trophy back to Guyana” said Ramneresh Sarwan, Captain of the Guyana Amazon Warriors when he spoke exclusively to News Source at the Queens Park Oval […]
By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2013
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(CMC) A thoroughly professional and clinical performance in the field and with the bat by the Guyana Amazon Warriors secured them a place in the finals of the inaugural Limacol Caribbean Professional League after beating Trinidad and Tobago by seven wickets in the first semi-final played at the Queens Park Oval here Thursday. Red Steel […]