January 27, 2015
THE 72-mile-long hinterland road connecting Region 9 (Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo) to the highland areas of Region 8 (Potaro/Siparuni) is 95% complete, Public Works Minister, Robeson Benn has disclosed.This long-awaited
January 27, 2015
MINISTER of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, in apprising Guyanese on foreign policy matters, detailed that Guyana is looking at non-traditional partners, even while consolidating relationships with traditional ones. Appearing on
January 27, 2015
THE Y3K group consists of siblings, Taiesha, Kwasi, Yurie, Keifa and Keiven Cox, who have been singing and composing their own songs for the past 11 years and they
January 27, 2015
VICE President of the United States Joseph Biden yesterday thanked the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for its “encouragement” to his country to “make the change” with Cuba.CARICOM has been advocating
January 27, 2015
REGION 2 Chairman Mr Parmanand Persaud says he is deeply concern about the number of suicide cases on the Essequibo Coast since the year began.This declaration came as another
January 27, 2015
BROKEN feet, hands, lacerations and extensive damage resulted from an accident at Friendship, East Bank Demerara on Monday morning when a sand truck slammed into a minibus travelling in
January 27, 2015
THE Government-owned asphalt plant based at Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara has acquired a new mobile plant which will enable staffers to provide top quality road building materials
January 27, 2015
FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD Chinese restaurateur Tai Hong Fen was on Sunday night beaten and robbed by armed bandits as he was about to close his business at Lot 23 Edinburgh Village,
June 17, 2012
More youth activitiesTHROUGH this column, numerous reports in the media and documentaries, Guyanese have become more aware of a significant intervention with a multi-pronged approach aimed at making communities
June 17, 2012
WHEN one lives in a tropical country with lush rainforests and rich coastal soil, the notion is that, deserts belong to far away lands such as, Africa and Asia.
June 17, 2012
— Focus on historic IPI congress in T&TSTARTING this coming Saturday, the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPS), perhaps the world’s best known watchdog on press freedom and protection of
June 17, 2012
– under its “Value Tun Up” umbrellaDIGICEL Guyana officially launched its ‘Value Tun Up’ promotion Friday at the Blue Lagoon Room of the Tower Hotel, where the media was
June 17, 2012
QUITE recently, I penned a piece on democratising democracy. The idea there was to show that even among politicians, there are more similarities than differences; a situation that exists
June 17, 2012
An in-depth focus on Caribbean issuesHuge rewards for Guyana and Caribbean tourism in New YorkCARIBBEAN tourism destinations effectively used a major marketing opportunity at the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s Caribbean
June 16, 2012
…looks forward to continuing important partnershipPRESIDENT Donald Ramotar yesterday recognised the role of the New Building Society Limited (NBS) in supporting the housing drive. And as government’s housing programme
June 16, 2012
THE plan by the British High Commission to establish a trade and investment office in Georgetown to foster the deepening of economic linkages in a structured manner has been
June 16, 2012
– to the advancement of working-class struggles in GuyanaTHIS month of June and precisely the 16th of June (Saturday) marks the 64th Anniversary of the “Enmore Martyrs”. It was
June 16, 2012
POLICE are investigating the death of pensioner and licensed firearm holder, Joseph Rodrigues, 83, of Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara, which occurred at about 11:55hrs yesterday. Investigations so far