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    - Katahar Curry Competition, Phagwah Mela set for March 17
      
      ALL roads lead this weekend to the Reliance Veda Centre in East Berbice for the Rang Ke Rang-Phagwah Mela and Bazaar and Katahar Curry Competition. Special performances of popular folk and...
    - Buzzing This Weekend
      
      IT’S time for the weekend again people, and it’s time to keep you in the loop with what’s ‘buzzing’ in and around Guyana. Today Head down to the Pegasus poolside, Ignite Bar and Grill...
    - Selector Biggs: ‘The Buzz’ personality of the week
      
      Who defines ‘entertainment’, better than a Disc Jockey? This week’s personality is a young DJ; 23-year-old Daniel Fraser, who goes by the alias ‘Selector Biggs’. Fraser brings the musical...
    - Freedom Family celebrates 5 years with appreciation party for fans and their friends
      
      To celebrate their fifth year in the entertainment fraternity, Freedom Family is hosting an appreciation party in Guyana for persons who have been continuously supporting their events over the...
- Business & Environment
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    - Westfield Prep girl tops at NGSA
      
      Nalia Rahaman of Westfield Prep Primary School- a private school located at 120-121 Parade Street, Kingston, Georgetown topped this year National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) with a score of 529...
    - Two terms only
      
      …CCJ checks Jagdeo’s third term ambitions In the case of the Attorney General of Guyana v Cedric Richardson, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruled that an amendment, that barred...
    - CCJ upholds Presidential limit
      
      …nixes Jagdeo third term bid The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) by a 6-1 majority upheld the constitutional amendment on term limits for Presidential Candidates in Guyana and overturned the...
    - CCJ rules against third term
      
      The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) by a 6-1 majority upheld the constitutional amendment on term limits for Presidential Candidates in Guyana and overturned the decisions of the Guyana...
- Crime & Security
  - Latest on Crime
    - Cocaine-in-bra trafficker ‘busted’
      
      MONALISA Moore, 23, of Phoenix, Leguan, Region Three, is in police custody after the police found narcotics at her home during a search. During the search, a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems...
    - Stalker kills mother of five
      
      NADINA Kalamadeen, 34, of North Sophia was on Wednesday evening killed by a man who exhibited signs of obsession with her. The mother of five was reportedly stabbed multiple times about the body...
    - Drunken argument leaves labourer dead
      
      A MAN stabbed his friend in the neck and left him to die after a drunken argument ensued between the two in the wee hours of Thursday morning at Foulmouth Landing, Essequibo River. Dead is Cedric...
    - North West man succumbs to arrow injury
      
      Police at Mabaruma are searching for a man who attacked a 26 year-old farmer of Koriabo Village, Barima/Waini , North West District with an arrow and bow on Tuesday afternoon. Dead is...
- Courts
  - Court Stories
    - Men remanded for discharging firearm at mother,son
      
      DEVON Wills and Andre Scott were on Monday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan on charges of robbery under arms and discharging a loaded firearm with intent to harm. Wills, a...
    - Man freed of raping 3-year-old
      
      CONWAY Gray was, on Tuesday, March 19, 2019, freed of a rape charge by the Sexual Offences Court of the Demerara High Court, after a jury returned a not-guilty verdict. Gray was on trial before...
    - Unruly Sherwin gets bail
      
      By Dillon Goring SHERWIN Hamilton, age 45, on Monday, March 11,2019, found himself before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Providence Magistrate’s Court on four charges. It is alleged that on...
    - Man remanded for assaulting Policemen and robbery
      
      ORIN Ridley, a 26-year-old resident of 173 Campbell Street was on March 18, hauled before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan for four offences, allegedly committed between January 31, 2019, and...
- Politics
  - Politics Stories
    - Two terms only
      
      …CCJ checks Jagdeo’s third term ambitions In the case of the Attorney General of Guyana v Cedric Richardson, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruled that an amendment, that barred...
    - CCJ upholds Presidential limit
      
      …nixes Jagdeo third term bid The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) by a 6-1 majority upheld the constitutional amendment on term limits for Presidential Candidates in Guyana and overturned the...
    - Venezuela opts out of border case at ICJ
      
      Venezuela has declined to participate in the court action filed by Guyana to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) with respect to age old territorial controversy between the two...
    - Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe resigns
      
      Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has resigned, parliament speaker Jacob Mudenda has said. A letter from Mr Mugabe said that the decision was voluntary and that he had made it to allow a smooth...
- Health
  - Science & Tech Stories
    - Region Five gets ‘smart’ health centres
      
      REGION Five (Mahaica/Berbice) is slated to receive two new health centres designed and constructed in keeping with the concept of “smart medical facilities.” One centre will be constructed at...
    - Support for Ptolemy Reid Rehab Centre
      
      IN observance of National Rehabilitation Week 2017, Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, on Wednesday pledged government’s support to the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre in helping to...
    - GPHC pain medicine goes missing -male nurse suspected
      
      DURING the course of last week, staff of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) discovered ten vials of the pain medicine, pethidine missing from a cabinet. Reports are that the hospital...
    - 60 cervical cancer tests conducted during U.S. Embassy outreach in Linden
      
      SIXTY cervical cancer tests were among a range of tests conducted by a United States Embassy outreach in the mining town of Linden recently. According to the embassy , the Humanitarian Assistance...
- Regional
  - Regional Stories
    - CAL CEO says safety is a priority in B737 Max purchase
      
      (T&T NEWSDAY)- Caribbean Airlines Ltd CEO Garvin Medera said safety is the company’s priority in any decision to upgrade the airline’s fleet to the Boeing 737 Max 8. “We will put safety...
    - TT oil refinery to close
      
      …‘Petrotrin buying oil to process not profitable’ THE Government has decided to shut down the refinery of State oil company Petrotrin. The country can no longer afford to continue to refine...
    - CDB to help pay Haiti’s 2018-2019 catastrophe insurance premiums
      
      The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved a grant of US$3 million to cover Haiti’s 2018-2019 insurance premiums with CCRIF SPC—the company that provides parametric insurance coverage to...
    - Gov’t seeking forfeiture of over $203M from businesswoman
      
      JAMAICA GLEANER - THE Assets Recovery Agency is seeking the forfeiture of over $203 million dollars from businesswoman Lan Yan which it alleges she obtained by illegal means. The agency has filed a...
- International
  - International Stories
    - Entire global fleet of Boeing 737Max aircraft grounded
      
      (BBC)- Boeing has grounded its entire global fleet of 737 Max aircraft after investigators uncovered new evidence at the scene of the fatal Ethiopian Airlines crash. The US plane-maker said it would...
    - Xi urges military to meet goals
      
      President Xi Jinping urged the military on Tuesday to make all-out efforts to ensure its goals for 2020 are fully realised in a timely manner. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of...
    - China’s Two Sessions buzzwords attract global attention
      
      BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- China's annual Two Sessions have always been an important opportunity for the international community to observe where the world's second largest economy is heading....
    - Maduro given ultimatum by European leaders
      
      (BBC)-The European Union has warned Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro that he must call elections or it will officially recognise the opposition's claim of leadership. Mr Maduro is under pressure...
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GECOM proposes November for polls

Lisa Hamilton -

March 20, 2019

RUSAL, union closer to agreement

March 21 will not interrupt normalcy

Twenty-four Guyanese technicians join ExxonMobil Guyana Team

News

Security officers trained in strategic communications

Staff Reporter -

March 20, 2019

SOME 34 officers completed an in-depth training in strategic communications facilitated by the Military Information Support Team (MIST) of Trinidad and Tobago in collaboration...

Cops sensitised on use of breathalysers, speed guns

Staff Reporter -

March 20, 2019

RANKS of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) were recently trained by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) on the verification and use of...

Bread vendor died of strangulation – autopsy

Staff Reporter -

March 20, 2019

AN autopsy performed on the remains of 63-year-old Clairmonte Telesford has revealed that he died as a result of strangulation and blunt trauma to...

Soon-to-retire City Hall worker on full-time scholarship

Staff Reporter -

March 20, 2019

GEORGETOWN Mayor Ubraj Narine has voiced his disapproval of a decision by the City Council to allow the chief health visitor to attend the...

Rachael Sookhoo wins annual Young Pioneers Spelling Bee

Staff Reporter -

March 20, 2019

YOUNG Rachael Sookhoo came out on top of the Young Pioneers’ annual Spelling Bee competition. “This year, we took our competition to children within various...

Sports

Colonial Medical Insurance Women’s Super50 Cup| Taylor’s 118 blows Guyana Women...

Rajiv Bisnauth -

March 19, 2019

… Shemaine Campbelle’s 111 off 11 balls in vain LEADING from the front, Stafanie Taylor slammed a blistering hundred to help Jamaica to a comfortable...

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