Last Updated on Sunday, 31 May 2015, 23:38 by GxMedia The Ministry of Education is advising parents and CSEC/CAPE candidates of the Bishop’s High School that there has been a change in the venue for the sitting of examinations timetabled for Monday, June 1, 2015. Due to the inclement weather which caused flooding in Georgetown, CSEC/CAPE candidates of the Bishop’s High ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 May 2015, 21:54 by GxMedia Georgetown, May 31, 2015) The Ministry of Education wishes to notify parents and guardians that due to flooding caused by heavy rains on Sunday, May 31 some schools will not be opened on Monday, June 1, 2015 so as to facilitate the cleaning and sanitization of school facilities and its ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 May 2015, 17:47 by GxMedia by Zena Henry Veteran Guyanese politician and International Relations expert, Aubrey Norton is tipped to be a presidential advisor on youth empowerment. Minister of State, Joseph Harmon told Demerara Waves Online News on Sunday, May 31 that Norton would be serving the administration of President David Granger. Norton, a former ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 May 2015, 17:07 by GxMedia Even as more rain is forecast until Thursday, authorities are overseeing the implementation of a 72-hour action plan to remove several bottlenecks and so  drain the city and lower East Coast Demerara rapidly. Under the chairmanship of the Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, engineers and decision-makers have decided to ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 May 2015, 12:48 by GxMedia by Ralph Ramkarran (reproduced from www.conversationtree.gy ) The end of the Jagan leadership of the PPP terminated the era of real, as opposed to formal, internal democracy. Its structure and leadership model, third world and Leninist influenced, lent itself to authoritarian methods. But the Jagans ensured full discussions and neither ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 May 2015, 11:58 by GxMedia People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) candidate, Clinton Urling has blamed former President Bharrat Jagdeo for the party’s defeat at the polls earlier this month and said the time has come for him to take a back seat if the party is to be rebuilt. Urling predicts that the PPP will ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 30 May 2015, 21:46 by GxMedia Anglican Bishop of Guyana, Rt. Rev. Cornell Moss died on Saturday in Miami, Florida where he was recuperating from heart surgery, according to well-placed sources. Moss, who is a native of The Bahamas, died mid afternoon after suffering a relapse. Relatives and close associates are in shock at his passing ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 30 May 2015, 21:10 by GxMedia The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) on Saturday confirmed that two Permanent Secretaries, who had been openly campaigning for that party for the recently held general elections, are off the job. Though no names were released by the main opposition party, Demerara Waves was reliably informed that those sent packing ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 30 May 2015, 20:16 by GxMedia by Dr. David Hinds I am opposed to any wholesale dismissal of members and supporters of the PPP from the Public Service. There should be no witch-hunting. But there are exceptions in my book–like the State media.Of all the blatant over-reach by the PPP government, the rape of the state ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 30 May 2015, 20:13 by GxMedia by Nicholas Birns, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs Several days after the Guyanese general election on May 11, a definite vote count has finally been taken. While for a time speculation swirled regarding the outcome, it has become clear, not just by the estimation of the opposition ...