Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia (CTV NEWS).-Swimming in the shallow, tannin-coloured waters of the upper Mazaruni River in Guyana lurks the Akawaio penak: a previously unknown genus of electric fish which was recently identified by a team of international scientists, including a Canadian researcher. Using tissue samples collected from two earlier expeditions in 2008 and ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Veteran broadcaster and actor, Ron Robinson was recovering from a serious accident involving a high-powered motorcycle. A neck brace, respirator and monitoring equipment have been removed from him and up and he was resting comfortably up to late Wednesday night in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has appealed to the international community to support the Region’s call for the immediate review of the criteria used by multilateral financial institutions (MFIs) and some development partners to graduate small highly indebted middle income countries (SHIMICS) from access to concessional resources. The appeal was issued ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia NEW YORK – September 26, 2013 – NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG) and Digicel on Thursday jointly announced at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York a partnership to acquire, construct and operate renewable energy projects under development in the Caribbean region. NRG and Digicel stand ready to bring ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia President Donald Ramotar on Thursday chided sections of the West for displaying double-standards in political upheavals in Egypt and Syria, saying that those actions all amounted to terrorism. He was at the time addressing the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York- the main deliberative, policymaking ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Students of Mahdia Primary School and their parents are Thursday protesting what they say is the dismissal of the Head Teacher based on a series of trumped up charges including absenteeism and alleged unaccountability of school funds. The overwhelming majority of students have stayed away and have been joined by ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Bandits Wednesday night opened fire at the home of a businesswoman before fleeing empty handed in the latest reported attack on the West Coast Demerara/ East Bank Essequibo area. Sharmila Shaw, a stallholder at the Parika Market, and her son Shawn Ally Shaw confirmed that several men attempted to enter ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia An elderly woman was burnt to death in a house in East Berbice one day before her birthday but her older sister escaped the hungry flames, officials said. The dead woman has been identified Margaret London of 7 Cross Street, Islington. She would have been 86 on Thursday. Eyewitnesses said ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Residential and commercial electricity consumers in Bartica are expected to breathe a sigh of relief with the expected end to prolonged blackouts and erratic power supply. The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) on Wednesday announced that electricity generation to the gold-dependent township has been restored to full capacity as a ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Electricity supply to residents in Berbice was Wednesday evening expected to return to normalcy as technical teams continue to work assiduously to complete repairs to the two damaged raw water pumps at GPL’s pump house at Canefield Power Station, the power company said in a statement.    Repair to one of ...