Last Updated on Sunday, 8 March 2015, 12:37 by GxMedia Even as the seven-member Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) discusses the future of collaboration with the Guyana National Youth Council (GNYC) on a youth-targeted public education drive, the United States (US) denies that the project is politically partisan. Deputy Chief-of-Mission of the American embassy here, Bryan Hunt told Demerara Waves Online ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 8 March 2015, 10:44 by GxMedia Despite political and economic troubles in neighbouring Venezuela, that Spanish-speaking country has agreed to buy more rice and paddy from Guyana but the prices remain a secret. “The price for paddy and rice agreed on will also be similar to 2014,” said Agriculture Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy without providing actual ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 8 March 2015, 3:13 by GxMedia President Donald Ramotar says he selected Director General of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Ambassador Harper to be his prime ministerial candidate because he hoped that being a victim of domestic violence she would motivate other women to speak out. “One of the reasons that I chose Lis Harper to be ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 7 March 2015, 14:38 by GxMedia A team of 31 immigration supervisors drawn from Guyana’s several immigration ports were Thursday sensitized about their roles and responsibilities particularly with respect to facilitating the free movement of CARICOM nationals under the CARICOM Single Market (CSM), the Caribbean Single Market and Economy Information Flows project.  The ports are Georgetown, the Cheddi ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 7 March 2015, 0:49 by GxMedia A 20-year old Barabina, North West District man met an untimely death Friday afternoon after he fell off of a tractor tray which was climbing a hill with a load of sand. According to reports, around 3:30 pm, porter Devon Valenzuela was seated at the back of the tray of ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 March 2015, 16:58 by GxMedia A gold miner from Victoria, East Coast Demerara was chopped to death in Mahdia where he had been residing for the past 15 years, officials said. Investigators are treating the death of 57-year old Charles Major as a robbery murder. Police said his body was found about 6 AM Friday ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 March 2015, 14:54 by GxMedia While thousands of Guyanese across Guyana were Friday morning preparing to celebrate Phagwah, three persons were seriously injured in an accident on the East Coast Demerara when the car they were travelling in slammed into a bridge. Officials identified the injured as Trevon Harper, 28, of 109 Friendship, East Bank ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 March 2015, 2:37 by GxMedia An Accountant and a Teacher were seriously injured Thursday night when the bus they were travelling in collided on the East Coast Public Road, according to well placed sources. The injured are Accountant, 42-year old Gwyneth Webb of 11 Belfield, East Coast Demerara and Teacher, 57 year old Angela London ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 March 2015, 2:13 by GxMedia The Manager of the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (Guysuco) Skeldon Estate, Dave Kumar was Thursday arraigned on charges of riotous behaviour and assaulting a peace officer with intent to resist arrest. Kumar, who was last year at the centre of the dismissal of an employee that led to a strike,  was ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 March 2015, 1:15 by GxMedia Lawyers for a woman and her lover, who were convicted for the murder of her 16-year old daughter and dumping her body in a creek, plan to appeal the life sentences handed down by the High Court on Thursday. Attorney-at-Law, George Thomas said he would file the appeal as early ...