Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Venezuela’s President, Nicolas Maduro is expected to pay an official visit to Guyana at month-end, his Guyanese counterpart announced on Sunday. President Donald Ramotar made the announcement at the formal opening of the GUY$300 million dollar Hugo Chavez Rehabilitation and Reintegration Centre at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice. Venezuela provided GUY$200 ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Miss World Guyana 2013, Ruqayyah Boyer is in Trinidad and Tobago speaking out against Bullying & Gender Based Violence. Boyer, an Ambassador for the Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness (CADVA), is looking to increase international awareness on the issue and is advocating for a Domestic Violence Policy in Guyana that ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Chairman of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Retired Brigadier David Granger has shrugged off concerns by the governing Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) about military links with the opposition coalition. Former long-serving PPP Executive Member, Ralph Ramkarran, however, believes that the remarks made at the just concluded 30th Congress of ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Two days after Guyana’s National Assembly failed to reach consensus on key-related legislative arrangements to support the more than US$800 million Amaila Falls Hydropower Project, a key American investor has pulled out. Head of the National Industrial Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington said the New York-based Sithe Global has ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia A 20-year old sales representative at a Call Centre in Linden was Friday arrested after she was caught allegedly attempting to smuggle cocaine in chunks to Canada. Oneika Neils of 612 Half Mile, Wismar, Linden was charged with being in possession of 1.100 kilogramme of cocaine for the purpose of ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia The AFC says it voted for the Amaila Hydropower legislation in the National Assembly to ensure the project was not killed since the party supported Guyana’s hydropower ambitions. During Wednesday’s 12 hour sitting which ran into Thursday the AFC voted along with the government to pass the Hydro-Electric Power (Amendment) ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia In the fourth gruesome attack on a female by her partner in just over one week, a 17-year old girl was Thursday afternoon beaten and chopped to death at Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara. Her alleged assailant, said to be a 19 19 year old man, has been arrested, ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Thirty five persons have been arrested and several items suspected to have been stolen have been recovered, police said. Police said that during Wednesday, 24 men were arrested during cordon and search operations in Kitty, Leopold Street and East Ruimveldt, Georgetown. The offences that that they have allegedly committed include ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia (TRAVEL WEEKLY).-The U.S. airline industry and its largest pilots union have stepped forward at the Transportation Department to oppose efforts by two small Caribbean airlines to operate between New York and Georgetown, Guyana. According to papers filed by Airlines for America and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the two ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Residents of Bartica were Thursday morning breathing a sigh of relief after a puma was shot dead before it could have possibly attacked animals or persons in the residential area of the gold mining township. Devon Douglas said he was having breakfast when a neighbour told him that a young ...