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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): The Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) says it will soon implement electronic testing to allow learners to take their CXC examinations on a computer or electronic device. “This exciting, new initiative is in keeping with CXC’s commitment to observe global quality standards in the delivery of examination services and deliver enhanced learner […]
The Office of the Integrity Commission wants to know the public’s view and comments on the draft Code of Conduct for Government Ministers, Members of Parliament and Public Office Holders. In a notice in today’s Guyana Chronicle, the Integrity Commission has invited members of the public to make their comments known. Persons who may want […]
The Leadership of the Alliance For Change is not pleased with the direction in which the Agriculture sector is heading and may be getting ready to push for changes. The Minister of Agriculture in the coalition government, Noel Holder, was put forward by the Alliance For Change since the Agriculture portfolio was one which came […]
Just one day after the Alliance For Change’s leadership met and later issued a strong statement calling for the stripping of some of the powers of the Minister of State Joe Harmon, the Chairman of the Alliance For Change, Nigel Hughes has tendered his resignation. While the AFC has not confirmed the resignation, in a […]
In wake of a call by the Alliance For Change for a trimming of the powers entrusted in the Minister of State, President Granger intends to stand by the duties that were assigned to Minister Harmon when the government took office 11 months ago. The AFC is the smaller party in the APNU+AFC coalition. Following a […]
President David Granger on Monday night dismissed the complaint by Businessman Brian Tiwarie over the President’s decision to rescind his appointment as an Advisor to the Minister of State. Earlier on Monday in a strong statement, Tiwarie criticized the move by the President as an impulsive one and said the President should also revoke the […]
The major trade unions in Guyana have decided to begin working closer with each other in an effort to tackle and deal with several of the problems affecting the Guyanese working class. As labour week approaches, the Guyana Trades Union Congress and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana have been meeting and examining […]
Businessman and Contractor, Brian Tiwarie, is not happy with the President’s decision to revoke his Advisor to the State Minister appoint and he believes the President may have rushed to make the revocation. In a Monday morning statement, Tiwarie sought to give his position on the entire appointment and the controversy that has since followed. […]
The Operations Officer of the Guyana Fire Service, Compton Sparman, on Monday morning told the Prison Unrest Commission of Inquiry that prisoners threw rocks at Fire Service Officers on the night of March 2nd, to prevent the firemen from extinguishing the first set of fires that they lit at the Camp Street jail. Mr. Sparman […]
Police investigators are probing an incident which took place on Sunday in Albouystown when a police vehicle driving through the community came under fire from a lone gunman. According to a police report, the police vehicle with a number of officers was driving through Hunter Street, Albouystown when at least four gunshots were fired in […]
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