Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 February 2015, 23:36 by GxMedia Guyana’s upcoming general and regional elections are expected to cost more than GUY$2 billion, according to Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield. He told reporters after a news conference that the cost to hold the May 11, 2015 poll would be around GUY$2.4 billion, about the same cost of that of ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 February 2015, 22:48 by GxMedia The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is considering ways of preventing the voters list from being bloated with the names of dead persons and migrants, apart from conducting a new house-to-house registration in a few years from now. GECOM Chairman, Dr. Steve Surujbally told a news conference that these include taking ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 February 2015, 3:23 by GxMedia Teleperformance on Tuesday announced that it is opening a customer care facility in Georgetown, Guyana later this April.  Teleperformance says its new multichannel contact center will enhance its ability to provide high-quality customer care, sales, and technical support solutions to its clients in English from a nearshore location. The custom-built campus will ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 February 2015, 2:21 by GxMedia Former President Bharrat Jagdeo appears set to hit the campaign trail on the Corentyne early next month, even as his ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) mulls a petition for him to be named prime ministerial candidate. PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee told a news conference on Tuesday that the party ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 22:39 by GxMedia (AP).-An alliance of three opposition parties won parliamentary elections in St. Kitts and Nevis, denying the former governing party and its prime minister a fifth consecutive term in power, officials said Tuesday. Outgoing Prime Minister Denzil Douglas conceded defeat late Tuesday afternoon, extending his congratulations to the Team Unity coalition ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 22:28 by GxMedia The University of Guyana Students Society (UGSS) on Tuesday demanded that lecturers end a month-long strike and resume pay negotiations or legal action could be taken. Representatives of the UGSS declined to divulge the grounds for planned legal action, but the UGSS Representative on the Council, Elsie Harry said the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 18:44 by GxMedia The Ministry of Health has intensified efforts to prevent the reintroduction of measles into Guyana following the outbreak of this infectious disease in the United States of America and other parts of the world. Indigenous Measles and Rubella were eliminated from Guyana and the Region of the Americas in 2002 ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 17:31 by GxMedia The incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) on Tuesday suggested that Guyanese might continue to vote along racial lines and that the Alliance For Change would be decimated at the upcoming elections because it has teamed up with A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), “I think the AFC has signed ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 2:21 by GxMedia A man chopped his wife severely before committing suicide at their Corentyne home, police said. The woman, 50-year old Totmattie Juianand, was chopped about her body. Police said she was rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital where she has been admitted. Her husband, 58-years old Deonarine Juinanand, was later found ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 1:55 by GxMedia A man was severely burnt Monday morning during an explosion of a fuel tanker that he was inside servicing, according to well-placed sources. He is 28-years old Charles “Junior” Allen of Bel Air Village, Greater Georgetown. The incident occurred at Herstelling, East Bank Demerara about 9 AM. Allen was rescued ...