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The Government is calling on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to provide a timely and more thorough and holistic status report detailing its level of readiness and preparedness for the holding of local government and/or general elections. Speaking at his weekly post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President on Wednesday, Head of […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (CMC) – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) says over US$500 million will be allocated for new efforts to reach an AIDS-free generation in the Caribbean and other places. The new programmes will support implementation of the blueprint for the US President Barak Obama’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), USAID […]
Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform, Attorney-At-Law, Basil Williams believes members of his party need to move away from taking internal party affairs to the public, in some cases, even before the party would have had the time to examine those issues and concerns. In an interview with News Source, Williams said “I don’t […]
The Disciplinary Committee set up by the Peoples National Congress Reform to probe a reported verbal altercation between the General Secretary of the PNC and member Vanessa Kissoon has recommend that Kissoon be suspended from the party for three months. The recommendation was made by the five member committee on Tuesday after its completed its […]
Guyanese weightlifting champion Colin Aubrey Chesney aka Mr. Clean, has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking in the United States and will know how many years he will spend in prison when he is sentenced in October. Mr. Clean was busted when he arrived in the United States on a Caribbean Airlines flight from Guyana with […]
From the new academic year, University of Guyana students will have to pay increased tuition fees. The new academic year begins late August. In a statement the University said new students will now have to pay GUY$210,000 per academic year and continuing students will pay GUY$180,000 over the same period. Students previously paid $127,000 per […]
(CARICOM) The Guyana-based Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) was honoured with the 2014 Red Ribbon Award for Advocacy and Human Rights at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia, July 20, 2014. The Red Ribbon Award is the world’s leading award for innovative and outstanding community work in the response to the HIV […]
The Guyana Police Force on Tuesday announced that 79 murders have been committed from January to July 21 of this year in Guyana. That figure represents an 18% increase in the murder rate when compared to the same period last year. In a statement the Police Force also reported that robberies are also on the […]
For decades he made Guyana, the Caribbean and New York go into a fit of laughter with his jokes and skits about growing up in Guyana and being Guyanese, but on Tuesday, July 22, comedian Habeeb Khan passed away in his sleep at his family home at Friendship on the East Bank of Demerara. Relatives […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — U.S. authorities have seized a haul of marijuana from a Guyana-flagged cargo ship in the Caribbean Sea south of Puerto Rico, officials said Monday. At a news conference in the U.S. territory’s capital of San Juan, U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Robert Warren said the vessel An Nurl was stopped last […]
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