Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:17 by GxMedia The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) Sunday competed with the opposition coalition for space over the future of the ailing sugar industry and credibility surrounding the Jaganite brand of politics. Against the backdrop of A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) promising that it would not close ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 19 April 2015, 15:09 by GxMedia The People’s Progressive Party Civic’s Prime Ministerial candidate, Elisabeth Harper would not be participating in a debate with her counterpart from the opposition coalition, Moses Nagamootoo because he has allegedly attacked and disrespected her on the campaign trail. “It is for this reason that we view a public debate with ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 19 April 2015, 14:27 by GxMedia A prominent city businessman, disgruntled by the way Guyana is being run, announced in Canada that he and other entrepreneurs planned to pack up and leave if the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) wins again. Owner of Action Tyre, Ron Persaud told a breakfast meeting in Canada between the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 19 April 2015, 11:39 by GxMedia A fire of electrical origin Saturday night destroyed a mechanical workshop at Pritipaul Singh Investments (PSI), Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara, sources said. The workshop and contained boat-building tools and other items. Investigators believed that the facility’s electrical wiring was faulty. That blaze occurred at about 11 PM. Back in ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 19 April 2015, 11:04 by GxMedia A man, who slept away with a lighted cigarette in his hand, narrowly cheated death after the house he was living in was engulfed in flames  Saturday night, according to well-placed sources. The fire occurred at 214 Bladen Hall, East Coast Demerara around 11:15 PM. The house is owned by ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 April 2015, 21:35 by GxMedia Residents of Windsor Forest and neighbouring villages on the West Coast Demerara  were Saturday afternoon bracing for flood after problems developed with a recently built koker (drainage sluice). Residents said the GUY$148 million dollar koker buckled under pressure from the high tide at about 5 PM. A resident explained that ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 April 2015, 21:14 by GxMedia Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo Saturday afternoon warned supporters of his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) that if they do not turn out and vote resounding next month, the opposition would cause unrest. Addressing thousands of supporters at a rally at Damon Square, Essequibo Coast, he said already the opposition was ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 April 2015, 15:09 by GxMedia Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Dr. Steve Surujbally has ditched calls by government for the seven-member commission to consider and approve reports by the Media Monitoring Unit (MMU). Addressing prospective election observers of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), he insisted that the commission would remain an autonomous ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 April 2015, 13:56 by GxMedia “He who controls the present controls the past.  He who controls the past controls the future.”  That was George Orwell in his timeless masterpiece1984.  The mighty can sift arbitrarily and select capriciously to manage minds to direct a specific outcome.  This is not about appearances, or speculation of what might ...

Last Updated on Friday, 17 April 2015, 21:33 by GxMedia Reeling from a spike in vandalism especially during this month, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) on Friday issued a stirring appeal to Guyanese to report anyone seen cutting telephone cables to 0908. The company announced that anyone who reports vandalism in progress and leads to the capture and ...