Last Updated on Sunday, 21 December 2014, 22:11 by GxMedia Thirty-four days after jumping from a blazing building in commercial Georgetown where his two daughters were burnt to death,  an elderly man died early Sunday morning of severe burns about his body. Mr. Hilrod Randolph Thomas,68, succumbed to injuries he sustained while fleeing a burning building on King and Robb ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 20 December 2014, 22:27 by GxMedia Chairman of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), David Granger has dismissed suggestions that the opposition parliamentary coalition is weak because it has failed to pressure the government on the streets with intensified street protests. APNU’s second major constituent party, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), has repeatedly taken the People’s ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 20 December 2014, 20:49 by GxMedia Guyana’s declared gold production and exports have each slumped by more than 20 percent, due to the fall in the international price for the yellow metal during the year, according to the Guyana Gold Board. Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh during his half-year report has already revised downward the country’s ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 20 December 2014, 20:12 by GxMedia Guyanese could go to the polls around April or May next year, now that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has cut short the current cycle of registration by one month, according to a commission source and a political leader. The elections management agency announced on Saturday that the 7th Cycle ...

Last Updated on Friday, 19 December 2014, 22:03 by GxMedia Guyana’s Opposition Leader, David Granger has registered his displeasure at the way the 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) has handled his request to intervene in his country’s political impasse. Mr. Granger had asked that Caricom leaders hold an emergency summit tot pressure President Donald Ramotar to lift the now more than ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 18 December 2014, 21:34 by GxMedia New U.S.-Cuba relationship could open Cuban markets to U.S. firms Washington, Dec 18 (EFE).- The agreement between the United States and Cuba to resume diplomatic relations, which were broken off in 1961, could open the door to the Cuban market to U.S. firms, which currently are banned from doing business ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 December 2014, 22:45 by GxMedia Vatican City, Dec 17 (EFE).- Pope Francis was “deeply pleased” that the United States and Cuba have announced the normalization of diplomatic relations “in order to overcome, for the good of their peoples, the troubles that have marred their history,” Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said Wednesday. Lombardi released a statement minutes after ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 December 2014, 22:43 by GxMedia Washington, Dec 17 (EFE).- American contractor Alan Gross thanked U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday for securing his release from prison and expressed support for his administration’s decision to work toward restoring full diplomatic relations with Cuba. “Thank you, President Obama, for everything you have done today and leading up to ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 December 2014, 22:38 by GxMedia Washington, Dec 17 (EFE).- The leading Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday slammed President Barack Obama’s decision to resume full diplomatic ties with Communist-ruled Cuba as a “mindless” concession to a dictatorship. Obama’s decision to launch talks aimed at restoring full relations that were severed in 1961 has sparked ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 December 2014, 22:34 by GxMedia Statement by the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocqueThe Caribbean Community (CARICOM) welcomes the thawing of relations between the United States and Cuba and the move towards the re-establishment of diplomatic ties.  CARICOM has long been an advocate for the normalisation of these relations and has raised ...