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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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Guyanese strike bronze at CAREBACO Individual

August 31, 2015

THE Guyanese players at the CAREBACO (Caribbean Regional Badminton Confederation) snapped up bronze medals when the tournament wrapped up in the Dominican Republic last...

GHB embarks on fund-raising website

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August 31, 2015

IN AN effort to raise funds to return to international outdoor competition for the first time in eight years, the national men's hockey team...

Jamaica team lament distance-relay defeat but already eyeing Rio

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August 31, 2015

BEIJING, China (CMC) – Jamaica’s distance relay team were left hurting after missing out on a medal on the final day of the IAAF...

Reggae Boyz to enter qualifiers with confidence, says Mattocks

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August 31, 2015

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Reggae Boyz striker Darren Mattocks says the squad’s confidence is soaring ahead of next Friday’s opening 2018 World Cup qualifier...

MOE/DCYS/NSC/GTTA summer camp concludes

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August 31, 2015

The Ministry of Education (MOE)/Department of Culture, Youth and Sport (DCYS)/National Sports Commission (NSC) seven-week table tennis `Teach Them Young’ summer camp that was...

India, South Africa to play Gandhi-Mandela series

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August 31, 2015

ALL FUTURE bilateral series between India and South Africa, including South Africa's forthcoming tour of India, will be called the Mahatma Gandhi-Nelson Mandela series,...

Morgan leads England to dramatic T20 win over Australia

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August 31, 2015

CARDIFF, (Reuters) - England held their nerve to beat Australia by five runs in a thrilling finish to a one-off Twenty20 international yesterday.Captain Eoin...

Nishikori, Ivanovic out as U.S. Open starts with upsets

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August 31, 2015

NEW YORK, USA (Reuters) - Kei Nishikori was back in the U.S. Open spotlight yesterday but for all the wrong reasons as last year's...

Djokovic races into second round of U.S. Open

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August 31, 2015

NEW YORK, USA (Reuters) - Top-seeded world number one Novak Djokovic raced into the second round of the U.S. Open with a 6-1, 6-1,...

Man Utd set to sign Monaco forward for £36M

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August 31, 2015

Manchester United are set to complete the £36M signing of Monaco forward Anthony Martial. The 19-year-old, who has been linked with Arsenal, was allowed...

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