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Monthly Archives: January 2015

Wait-and-see approach towards automatic entry of top UG Law grads to Hugh Wooding Law School

Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 January 2015, 0:47 by GxMedia Uncertainty surrounds the fate of the University of Guyana’s (UG) top 25 law degree graduates being granted automatic entry to the Trinidad-based Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS), with student representatives not entirely assured by Attorney General Anil Nandlall’s cautious optimism that they should benefit from an ad hoc agreement which ...

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Caribbean News Desk for Tues Jan 13, 2015… Stories include: Another terrorist group on Caricom Summit’s agenda

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 January 2015, 21:05 by GxMedia The Bahamas plans to put the issue of the terrorist attacks in Nigeria by the group, Boko Haram, on the agenda of the next summit of Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders. “The Bahamas intends to place this issue on the next CARICOM meeting agenda as a show of solidarity among countries ...

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Woman long accused of plotting to kill husband is gunned down

Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 January 2015, 0:41 by GxMedia A woman, who was accused by her husband of plotting to kill him one year ago, was gunned down Monday night at Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara. She has been identified as Patricia Sanasie.  Hospital sources said she received at least four gunshots about her body. Eyewitnesses said that the ...

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Caribbean News Desk for Mon Jan 12, 2015….”We don’t have to listen to what Britain says”- Rohee

Last Updated on Monday, 12 January 2015, 18:51 by GxMedia Amidst mounting calls from the United Kingdom (UK) for an end to the prorogation of the Guyana Parliament, People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) General Secretary Clement Rohee says Guyana does not have to listen to what Britain says. His statements came Monday during the party’s press conference when asked how ...

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Commonwealth, Britain may penalise Guyana for Parliamentary suspension, local govt elections

Last Updated on Monday, 12 January 2015, 14:41 by GxMedia The Commonwealth may impose sanctions on Guyana for  its failure to hold long-delayed local government elections and lift the now two-month old suspension of Parliament, and the United Kingdom could cut back bilateral aid, according to the top British envoy here. “Guyana is moving into a category of concern for ...

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Barbados-bound young woman arrested allegedly with cocaine

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 January 2015, 21:46 by GxMedia A woman, who intended to travel to Barbados for the first time was Saturday arrested after a quantity of cocaine was found in her suitcase, a senior anti-drug agent said. Her name has been withheld until she is charged, but the official of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) said ...

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“Cash flow problem” delays incentive pay-out at two Berbice sugar estates

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 January 2015, 20:20 by GxMedia Thousands of sugar industry workers at two East Berbice estates now have to wait until later this month to receive their Holiday-With-Pay incentive because the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) has a cash-flow problem, a senior union official said Saturday. General Secretary of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union ...

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Caricom wants to use China’s US$3 billion for debt restructuring

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 January 2015, 15:46 by GxMedia BEIJING, China — The 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) hopes to tap into  US$3 billion being offered that China is offering the region to help restructure its debt because the classification of many countries as Middle Income makes it difficult for them to access and pay back cash on concessionary terms. ...

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Guyana’s opposition parties considering electoral “platform”

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 January 2015, 1:42 by GxMedia As talks toward a pro-democracy alliance progress, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) says it does not believe that signing the Alliance For Change’s (AFC) non-disclosure agreement before the party presents its proposal for jointly contesting upcoming general and regional elections. APNU General Secretary, Joseph Harmon appeared to be cautiously optimistic about ...

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Deadly attack on French newspaper seeks to silence free press- Caricom Chief

Last Updated on Friday, 9 January 2015, 20:58 by GxMedia The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has extended its deepest condolences to the Government and people of France following the ‘despicable attack’ on the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo which resulted in the deaths of journalists and policemen. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin  LaRocque, in his message, said the savage attack on one of ...

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