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The traditional top schools have once again dominated this year’s CXC examinations at both the CSEC and CAPE levels. According to the Ministry of Education, 65% of the students who wrote the CSEC exams gained Grade 1 to 3 passes. This year’s top performing student hails from the Anna Regina Secondary School. He is Alex […]
The Guyana Police Force this afternoon confirmed that four persons remain in custody being questioned about the murder of 31-year-old Rose Hall resident, Melissa Arokium and her 8-year-old son, Anthony Arokium. The badly chopped bodies of the mother and son were found yesterday midday in her Mangrove Street, Rose Hall home. The Guyana Police Force […]
Mathematics continues to be a sore subject for Guyanese students writing the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations. Only 34% of students who wrote the Mathematics examinations managed to gain Grade 1 to 3 passes. The Ministry of Education released the CXC results today, and according to the Chief Education Officer, Saddam Hussein, while there were […]
President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU), Seepaul Narine has indicated that while GAWU with the help of the Oilfield Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) of Trinidad and Tobago, has been able to penetrate the oil and gas industry locally, a large number of workers remain unrepresented. On the sidelines of the ongoing […]
A row between a gambler and a gaming center employee turned deadly on Wednesday night in Bartica when the gambler was beaten to the head with a hammer and died. A Police statement said, the gambler, 40-year-old Mark Braithwaite was a regular at the Gaming Facility in Bartica. On Wednesday night, he was scolded about […]
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall is defending President Irfaan Ali’s decision to extend Mr Clifton Hicken’s tenure as Acting Commissioner of Police, pointing out that there is nothing unconstitutional about the extension. “I wish to confirm, in my humble and respectful view that His Excellency, the President complied with the Constitution […]
President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union, (GAWU) Seepaul Narine has confirmed to News Source that the week-long protest which gripped the sugar-belt in Berbice is being called off following an agreement to not transfer workers from the Albion and Blairmont estates back to the Rose Hall estate. The sugar workers who were […]
General Secretary of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF), Sue Longley has flagged the increasing use of contract workers in Guyana, even as she lobbied those in the budding Oil and Gas Sector to become unionized. Longley – the first female General Secretary of the IUF […]
The Rose Hall town in Berbice has been plunged into mourning with the double murder of a woman and her son. The bodies of Melissa Arokium and her son Anthony Arokium were found in their Rose Hall home this midday with multiple chop wounds. The bodies were discovered by a brother of the dead woman, […]
-by Svetlana Marshall- Declaring that the Government will not walk away from sugar, President Irfaan Ali declared today that his Administration is prepared to bring in experts from Guatemala and India to help with the management of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo). “We are talking with India, with Guatemala to find the technical support service […]
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