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    - Buzzing this weekend
      
      YESSS! It’s that time of the week, people, when we do our best to keep you in the loop with what’s ‘buzzing’ in and around Guyana. TODAY **To start the ball rolling, Set 4 Life...
    - ‘Filling the void’ returns
      
      - with yet more opportunities for young artists AFTER a successful execution last year, part two of ‘Filling the void’ art exhibition is slated for August 11. Two Guyanese young men with...
    - Daniel Loveless only came to do a shoot
      
      - and ‘whaddya know’, now he’s bowled over by the love POPULAR Trinidadian entertainer, Daniel Loveless, creator of the social media street show “What yuh know”, has been parading the...
    - Meet Chenille Bowen
      
      - ‘Buzz’ Personality of the Week WE’VE all heard the saying “A woman should be two things: Who and what she wants.” This week’s personality has definitely been living up to that saying,...
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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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    - Miner killed at Kurubrung backdam
      
      A 27-year-old miner succumbed to chop wounds he sustained during an altercation at Kurubrung Backdam in the Potaro-Siparuni region last evening. Dead is Mark Jacobus, who hails from the Aranaputa...
    - UPDATED: Bandits shot dead on Norton Street
      
      Gunfire erupted and disturbed the peace on Norton Street , Lodge this evening as several bandits were shot dead by the police during a standoff. Two of the men have been identified as Shawn Browne...
    - 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...
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    - Alleged killers of money-changer and daughter remanded
      
      A GRIEVING widow on Monday, July 15, 2019, sat at the Sparendaam Magistrates' Court, watching, as the five men, who allegedly killed her husband, moneychanger, Aaron Latchman, and her 18-year-old...
    - Rapist sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment
      
      A 63-year-old man was on Monday, July 15, 2019, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment after confessing to Justice Simone Morris- Ramlall, at the High Court, that he raped a 4-year-old girl in...
    - Minibus operator to stand trial for murder
      
      PRINCIPAL Magistrate Faith McGusty on Friday, July 12, 2019, committed a 22-year-old man to stand trial at the High Court for murder, while his father was freed from the indictment due to...
    - Porter remanded for simple larceny
      
      PRINCIPAL Magistrate Faith McGusty, on Friday July 12, 2019, remanded a 43-year-old porter to prison for simple larceny. Monaf Boodhoo of Essequibo Coast, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’...
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    - 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...
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    - 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...
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    - 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...
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    - Theresa May quits: UK set for new PM by end of July
      
      (BBC)-Theresa May has said she will quit as Conservative leader on 7 June, paving the way for a contest to decide a new prime minister. In an emotional statement, she said she had done her best to...
    - 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...
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28 years of PNC thuggery –misery in Guyana

March 31, 2015

READING Bros. Hydar Ally and Lal Balkaran’s letters should be a must for all who suffered, including others of sound mind, to never forget...

Creating a prosperous and just society

Staff Reporter -

March 31, 2015

POLITICS is defined as who gets what, how and when. The PPP/C has always embraced the view that the acquisition of power is not...

Let education reign supreme!

Staff Reporter -

March 31, 2015

GUYANA is the only country in the world that the Government gives a free computer to every home. I disputed this vociferously until I...

Well done, Africo!

Staff Reporter -

March 31, 2015

I read with pride, excitement, and joyous anticipation the article, ‘Africo Selman joins PPP at Kitty Rally’ carried in your March 30 issue.For as...

Jagdeo is a towering thunderbolt in Opposition psyche

Staff Reporter -

March 31, 2015

FORMER President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo is perceived by the Opposition cabal as such a formidable adversary in the political fray that their fear is...

CPL changes for the better – Jaime Stewart

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March 31, 2015

“WE got extra games in the tournament this year and an expanded schedule in a sport event is a helpful thing,” says Limacol CPL’s...

DDL continues support for Caribbean Premier League

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March 31, 2015

THE Demerara Distillers, behind their world famous El Dorado Rum, yesterday announced the continuation of sponsorship for the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (CPL). Dubbed the...

25th K&S football semi-finals set for tonight at DCC … Slingerz vs Riddim...

Staff Reporter -

March 31, 2015

IT STARTED with 16 teams but after six nights of intense and heartbreaking football action, it has boiled down to the final-four teams contesting...

GT&T on board with soft-shoe tournament

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March 31, 2015

MERE hours after they officially launched their soft-shoe tournament at the Guyana Beverage Company, Diamond, East Bank Demerara-based boardroom, the directors of Petra Organisation...

Fourth Annual PowerAde 50-mile cycle race for West Demerara on Sunday

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March 31, 2015

THE fourth Annual PowerAde 50-mile cycle road race will be staged on Sunday in the West Demerara area commencing at 08:00hrs from outside the...

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