Last Updated on Saturday, 20 September 2014, 17:39 by GxMedia The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has to stop thinking and acting as though it possesses the authority on people’s rights. The call made for years by sections of society to have the constitutionally guaranteed local government elections, is a matter of right. Rights are non-negotiable. This society is being conditioned ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 20 September 2014, 17:35 by GxMedia Many of us have been concerned about the criminalization of protest in Guyana, in particular African Guyanese protest. We have pointed to the difference in the responses of the government and some sections of Civil Society to protest in the two ethnic communities. We have also been dismayed by the ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 20 September 2014, 17:19 by GxMedia After the capture of criminals in Agricola in recent years, the Guyana Police Force on Saturday embarked on a strategy to mould very young children in that East Bank Demerara community to become future leaders. The strategy included Saturday’s launch of the Agricola Chosen Generation Police Youth Group at the ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 20 September 2014, 16:33 by GxMedia Millions of Guyana dollars worth of paper, ink and printery equipment belonging to Pavnik Press were destroyed and others water-damaged as a result of a fire at a bond owned by the Guyana Chronicle on Lama Avenue, Georgetown. “Terribly, we have millions of dollars in stock and machinery,” said General ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 20 September 2014, 10:30 by GxMedia By AZARD ALI of Trinidad Newsday FIVE Guyanese who have been living for the past 19 months on a Nigerian oil and gas vessel docked in Trinidad waters, have vowed not to leave the ship unless they are paid US$215,000 in wages. The M T Tumini has been docked a ...

Last Updated on Friday, 19 September 2014, 20:44 by GxMedia Forty-three persons working in port security this week completed a United States Embassy-sponsored training program for Guyanese port security workers and sea cadets on the intricacies of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code). The American Embassy said the three-day class, consisting of 43 students including 10 ...

Last Updated on Friday, 19 September 2014, 20:20 by GxMedia BK International on Friday challenged the Ministry of Public Works to support its charge that the GT&T cable damaged recently was in an area not assigned to BK by the Consultants. The Ministry of Public Works made this claim in a statement issued on September 17. On the same day ...

Last Updated on Friday, 19 September 2014, 20:01 by GxMedia YOURDAILYJOURNAL.COM.-ROCKINGHAM — Earl Rose never intended to become a missionary. The idea of providing medical care to the ill in foreign and developing countries or getting his hands muddy building schools and huts just never appealed to him. Then he discovered Guyana, a country on the northern coast of South ...

Last Updated on Friday, 19 September 2014, 19:45 by GxMedia A man was Friday arraigned for the road deaths of two overseas-based Guyanese on the Mabura Road and released on GUY$1 million bail. Forty-three year old Michael Jordan of 21 Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara was not required to the charge of causing death by dangerous driving that was read ...

Last Updated on Friday, 19 September 2014, 17:30 by GxMedia Guyana has completed its 4th Annual Assessment of Deforestation and Forest Degradation under the Monitoring Reporting and Verification System (MRVS), the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported. Interim results on 2013 deforestation rate indicate a decrease in the rate of deforestation from 0.079% as the annual rate for 2012, to 0.068% ...