Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia GEORGETOWN – The U.S Embassy’s Youth Action Network (YAN) teamed up with partners for a lively day of community service in Linden under the theme:  “Ready to Serve, Ready to Lead.”  The YAN members joined together with U.S. military cadets from the Cultural Understanding and Language Proficiency Program (CULP) and ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia The Buxton First of August Movement (BFAM), in collaboration with the Toucan Multi-Purpose Club (TMC), marks the 175th anniversary of the abolition of Plantation Slavery in Guyana with a series of events over the next month. The theme for this year’s events is “Emancipation, Reconciliation and Equality.”   “While we ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia A murder accused was Sunday night found hanging in his cell in the Georgetown Prison, police said. Authorities have not definitively said whether the inmate committed suicide or someone killed him. The dead man has been identified as 26-year old Brian Blunt. His body was found hanging in his cell ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Barbados-based Caribbean political analyst and pollster, Peter Wickham believes that Guyana should hold early elections because gridlock is stifling the country’s development. “I think is only a matter of time before an election has to be called and to me the sooner it is done the better because it gives ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Workers of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) on Monday protested the unilateral decision by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MNRE) to shift the regulatory agency’s 34th anniversary to coincide with Mining Week. MNRE Permanent Secretary, Joslyn Mc Kenzie, however, could not say whether the ministry ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia There is a possibility that greater collaboration with the opposition parties could be one of the issues discussed at the PPP’s Congress scheduled for this weekend. This is according to Congress Chairman Clement Rohee at a party news conference on Monday. “In the report of the Central Committee there may ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Former Chief Elections Officer, Gocool Boodoo has sought to avoid blame for initially presenting inaccurate results for the 2011 general and regional election, in stark contrast to accounts by an opposition-nominated elections commissioner. In a letter to the privately-owned Stabroek News, Boodoo said the results were given to him by ...