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Daily Archives: Friday, 2 August 2013, 21:01

PPP Congress opens with need to win back majority

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Guyana’s governing Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) on Friday opened its 30th Congress at Port Mourant, Corentyne, leaving middle-level leaders to stridently signal that fresh elections could be on the horizon to resolve 21-month long political gridlock. Chairman of the PPP’s Region Six branch, Dr. Vishwa Mahadeo highlighted that the one-seat ...

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AFC wants debt ceiling motion tied specifically to Amaila Project

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia The Alliance For Change (AFC) says it is ready to support the hydro-electric bill but is calling for the motion to increase the debt ceiling to be tied specifically to the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) in order to avoid giving the government a blank slate to go borrow. The ...

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Body of missing Mocha youth found

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia The body of a Mocha youth who went missing earlier this week was found Friday morning in the backdam of the East Bank Demerara village. Delon Melville, 25, of Nelson Street, Mocha, was last seen alive by his family on Monday. Demerara Waves Online News understands that the partly decomposed ...

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300 Cuba-trained professionals return home

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia (GINA) Over the past three days, about 300 Cuban trained Guyanese have returned from the Spanish-speaking island to serve their country. Two hundred medical doctors arrived at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) Timehri on Wednesday while on Tuesday a batch of 99 graduates comprising agronomists and engineers returned. Minister ...

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Another man chops wife, children

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia A man Thursday night went berserk and chopped his wife and three of their children at their Sophia home. Initial reports suggest that the angry man, Shawn Fordyce, did not want his wife, 47-year old Dorothy Blackman, to go out. Blackman is said to be a newspaper vendor on Orange ...

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Child drowns, elderly man killed; supermarket supervisor shot, robbed.

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia The drowning of a three-year old child, killing of an elderly man and the shooting of a businessman during a robbery of a supermarket are among incidents on Thursday’s police blotter. Investigators said the boy-Doukuan Edwards of Industry, East Coast Demerara- was found in the creek at Marudi, Soesdyke/Linden Highway at ...

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