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Guyana Shines project cleans up city

GEORGETOWN –  On July 22, 2014, the U.S. Embassy provided more than $7,600.00 worth of equipment and supplies to Youths For Guyana (YFG) as part of the Guyana Shines: Keep Guyana Beautiful initiative. The property grant included gloves, bags, computers, tables, electronic equipment, and other items to support the group’s environmental work.  The recent handover follows over $34,000.00 […]

Scores of persons bid farewell to murdered sex worker

Scores of persons flocked the Sandy’s Funeral  Home in Georgetown on Thursday midday to bid farewell to murdered gay sex worker Carl Sinclair who was also known as Tyra. From mid morning, over 200 persons, mostly women, gathered at the funeral home for the  beginning of the farewell service. Many of them appeared curious and […]

Obama picks drug fighting diplomat as new Ambassador to Guyana

U.S President Barack Obama has nominated a tough talking, drug fighting Diplomat as the new Ambassador of the United States to Guyana. In a White House statement, the US Government announced the nomination of Perry L. Holloway as the next Ambassador to Guyana. According to the White House statement, Perry L. Holloway, a career member of […]

Justice Claudette Singh appointed Legal Advisor to Police Force

President Donald Ramotar has approved the appointment of a legal advisor for the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in the person of former Justice of Appeal, Hon. Claudette Singh. This was announced on Wednesday by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon. Justice Singh, a distinguished jurist, headed the recently concluded Justice Sector Modernisation Programme […]

Two year birth certificate requirement for new passport dropped

Slapped with another lawsuit over a decision to ask new passport applicants to provide a birth certificate that was issued no more than two years before the application for the passport, the Ministry of Home Affairs has now dropped that requirement altogether. Now a first time applicant for a machine readable Guyana passport would have […]

GTA suspends Tourism Officer for criticizing Dynamic Airways

When it comes to Dynamic Airways, it appears as though, Officials as the Guyana Tourism Authority may have to be very careful what they say about the problem prone carrier. The Guyana Tourism Authority which falls under the Ministry of Tourism recently suspended one of its Tourism Officers for five days after  the young man […]

Another Guyanese completes US International Visitors Program

GEORGETOWN – Chargé d’Affaires Bryan Hunt recently met with Annette Jaundoo upon her return from the United States after participating in the prestigious Embassy-sponsored International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) exchange. Mrs. Jaundoo participated in an IVLP exchange on “Human and Civil Rights for All,” from June 7 – 30, 2014.  Jaundoo, who is the Executive […]

UG starts registration with new fees in place

The University of Guyana has started registration for the new academic year and has put in place the new tuition fees which were approved recently by the University council. On Tuesday, students at the Turkeyen Campus noted several posters and notices about the new fees across the campus. According to the University, new Guyanese students […]

Japan to develop closer ties with CARICOM

(CARICOM)  Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) “were heartened” by their Japanese counterpart’s positive response to a number of issues raised during their one-day summit on Monday. Speaking at a Joint Press Announcement in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago following the first ever CARICOM-Japan Summit, CARICOM Chairman Honourable Gaston Browne, Prime Minister […]

PME points to unidentified woman being stabbed to death

The Guyana Police Force on Monday reported that an autopsy has been completed on the remains of the woman’s body which was found in a clump of bushes in the Pattensen/Turkeyen area on the East Coast of Demerara. The post-mortem examination which was done on Monday morning by Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh, found that the […]