Last Updated on Saturday, 18 October 2014, 4:09 by GxMedia (BBC ).-Hurricane Gonzalo has hit Bermuda with winds of about 175km/h (110mph). The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) has warned of high winds and “life-threatening storm surge” the after the eye of the hurricane passed the British Atlantic territory. Eighty per cent of the island chain has lost power because ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 October 2014, 3:05 by GxMedia Caracas,(EFE).- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday his government can withstand a continued drop in oil prices and recalled that the South American country has requested an urgent OPEC meeting to address the issue. “A revolutionary government with economic power like the one I preside over, we have plans, I ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 October 2014, 2:58 by GxMedia New Delhi, Oct 17 (EFE).- The India-Latin America and Caribbean conference concluded its most successful edition to date on Friday, before an audience of 350 representatives from the world of politics and business who came to New Delhi to participate in the event. The conference’s sixth edition was organized by ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 October 2014, 2:37 by GxMedia Washington, (EFE).- Guatemala’s Eduardo Stein, one of the candidates seeking to become head of the Organization of American States, said here Thursday that it would be regrettable if the presence of Cuba at the 2015 Americas Summit prompted other countries to boycott the event.Whether to invite Cuba “is no longer ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 October 2014, 2:19 by GxMedia Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), David Granger on Friday contrasted the behavior of a small band of protesters, who were locked out of a meeting he held in Linden two weeks ago, with protesters in Richmond Hill, New York. “The people in Richmond Hill they were not ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 October 2014, 1:01 by GxMedia The Ministry of Education announces on Friday announced with “pride” that Guyana “has once again done extraordinarily at the CSEC examinations” as  Guyana the country ains four Regional Awards for Outstanding Performance in the May/June 2014 examinations. The following students will receive awards for their outstanding performance this year: 1.      ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 October 2014, 0:45 by GxMedia President, Donald Ramotar Friday night announced that he would be asking the political opposition to join hands in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus that is slowly spreading across the world. “I shall be formally inviting the Leader of the Opposition and the leaders of all Parliamentary Political Parties ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 October 2014, 0:10 by GxMedia Washington, Oct 17 (EFE).- A laboratory technician from the Dallas hospital where a Liberian died of the Ebola virus, and who handled some of his fluid samples for analysis, has been placed in quarantine aboard a cruise ship, the State Department said Friday.“The employee did not have direct contact with ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 October 2014, 0:00 by GxMedia A Guyanese grandmother of 15 was Friday jailed and fined for attempting to post a quantity of cocaine to Spain earlier this year. Sandra Daniels,50, of Lot 2 Dennis Street, Sophia, Greater Georgetown was sentenced to five years imprisonment and fined GUY$738,000 by City Magistrate, Judy Latchman. Daniels was convicted ...

Last Updated on Friday, 17 October 2014, 23:41 by GxMedia San Juan, Oct 17 (EFE).- Each day more Caribbean islands join the list of countries closing their doors to visitors from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa.Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Antigua and Barbuda have already established entry restrictions ...