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    - The Love Story that made ‘Nothing to Laugh About’
      
      By Telesha Ramnarine HE came to the relationship with about ten solid years of theatrical experience. She, on the other hand, had zero, but was well equipped with organisational and other skills....
    - See you tonight!@ De ‘Soca block party’
      
      AFTER a resounding success last November, attracting thousands of Guyana’s youths, the Block Party has returned as the kick- start of the Guyana Carnival activities. The party goes down this...
    - THE CHOCOLATE J’OUVERT…
      
      --A j’ouvert with a difference IT IS no question that one of the most hosted events in Guyana is a ‘J’ouvert’. All through the year we have seen J’ouverts coming in all different forms and...
    - Jumo’s 592 Spot Nightclub to open tomorrow
      
      By Michel Outridge JUMO Primo is all set to open his newly- renovated 592 Spot NightClub at the corners of John and Norton Streets, Werk-en-Rust. The opening is billed for tomorrow at 20h00,...
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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...
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    - Man dies one month after beating
      
      ONE month after being rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he remained unconscious and on a life support, 48-year-old handyman, Terry Persaud, died on Thursday. His death was confirmed by...
    - Miner killed in Cuyuni
      
      A 19-year-old miner, Dave Boyal, was allegedly murdered by a close relative who was also his employer on Friday. Boyal of Batavia, Cuyuni River, was murdered at Blackwater Island Backdam in the...
    - 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...
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  - Court Stories
    - Enmore man jailed for robberies, escaping from police station
      
      A 23-year-old labourer was on Friday sentenced to six years imprisonment by Magistrate Fabayo Azore after confessing to escaping from the Cove and John Police Station along with counts of armed...
    - Accused found guilty for killing Sparendaam Squatting Area man
      
      TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Junior Anthony Henry was on Friday found guilty by a 12-member mixed jury for the murder of Michael Hamilton, who was killed in 2013 at Sparendaam Squatting Area, East Coast...
    - Youth in ‘cricket bat’ murder trial found guilty
      
      SIX years after Deon Manbodh, called Ramesh, was fatally beaten with a cricket bat to his head his 20-year-old attacker was, on Friday, found guilty of the crime. Jonathan Budhan formally of...
    - Miner accused of killing employee acquitted
      
      A 50-year-old former mining operator was, on Thursday, acquitted of a murder at the conclusion of the trial in the Demerara High Court. Rajesh Roopnarine called ‘Popo’ was accused of killing...
- 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
    - 23 Venezuelans trying to reach Trinidad, feared dead
      
      (Trinidad Express)-At least 23 illegal immigrants, including women and two children, are feared drowned after their boat overturned early Wednesday morning off Venezuela. The ill-fated fishing...
    - Venezuela crisis: Guaidó aide faces terrorism charge
      
      A top aide to Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó is being charged with terrorism after he was arrested by President Nicolas Maduro's government. Mr Guaidó's chief of staff Roberto Marrero,...
    - 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...
- International
  - International Stories
    - Former Peruvian President, Alan Garcia shoots himself as police arrest him
      
      (BBC)-Peru's former President Alan García has shot himself as police came to arrest him. Casimiro Ulloa hospital in the capital, Lima, said he was in surgery where he was being treated for "a...
    - San Diego Zoo to bid farewell to giant pandas
      
      LOS ANGELES — The San Diego Zoo will return its last two giant pandas to China next month, said zoo officials Monday. "In honoring the terms of the Zoo's conservation loan agreement with the...
    - Sri Lanka’s debt problem isn’t made in China
      
      (East Asia Forum)Global media and numerous ‘experts’ routinely assert that Sri Lanka was forced to cede a strategically important port to China after being lured into a debt trap by easy Chinese...
    - 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...
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Accountants, auditors open to supervision for AML/CFT compliance

Citizens Bank records $357.5M profit

GLDA closes hatchery

Staff Reporter -

May 19, 2019

…due to unusual deaths of ducklings THE unusual deaths of ducklings at the Guyana Livestock and Development Authority’s (GLDA’s) Hatchery has resulted in its temporary...

‘Family doctors – caring for you for the whole of your life’

Staff Reporter -

May 19, 2019

By: Dr Tariq Jagnarine (Family Medicine Resident) THE World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) first declared world Family Doctors’ Day (FDD) – 19th May –...

STARR to host business transformation seminar

Staff Reporter -

May 19, 2019

AS the oil and gas transition matures in Guyana, it will be critical for Guyanese businesses to explore more efficient ways and means to...

Less tolerance for corruption now than before

Navendra Seoraj -

May 19, 2019

- says Gaskin ALTHOUGH admitting that corruption cannot be completely eradicated, Alliance For Change (AFC) Executive Member, Dominic Gaskin, said tolerance for corruption is less...

Praise pours in for retiring CCJ judge

Staff Reporter -

May 19, 2019

REPRESENTATIVES from around the Region converged on Friday at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, for a...

Basketball scores big at National Sports Awards

Rawle Toney -

May 17, 2019

… Stanton Rose, Chelsea Edghill named sportsman- and sportswoman-of-the-year STANTON Rose, Guyana’s history-making Senior National Basketball team captain, carved his name deeper into the country’s...

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