Last Updated on Sunday, 9 August 2015, 17:12 by GxMedia ‎President David Granger on Sunday urged Guyanese to kick-start village economies through agriculture and manufacturing rather than rely on salaried jobs and merely using their communities merely as “dormitories.” “Unless you change the economy, create entrepreneurship and manufacturing, we will always be victims of people who make decisions for us,” ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 9 August 2015, 2:19 by GxMedia One person was shot and injured during a robbery at a supermarket at Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara. A senior police officer in the East Coast Demerara Division confirmed there was a shooting but he did not have any details.The incident occurred at about 9 PM. However, a resident in ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 8 August 2015, 19:47 by GxMedia Guyana’s Foreign Minister, Carl Greenidge on Saturday said even if Venezuela makes a legally acceptable challenge to the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award of the land border between the two countries,  the mineral and forest-rich Essequibo Region would not be handed over to its Spanish-speaking automatically. “If it is able to ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 8 August 2015, 16:57 by GxMedia by Zena Henry  The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has sent the file involving possible misappropriation of state funds (PetroCaribe) by Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) to the Attorney General and the Ministry of Public Security for advice. This update was given by Minister David ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 8 August 2015, 16:49 by GxMedia by Zena Henry Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson says an amicable solution has been reached with China Harbour Engineering Corporation (CHEC) over the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion project that will not see the project exceeding the initially proposed US$150 million. Patterson, during a press conference Saturday August 8 ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 8 August 2015, 15:47 by GxMedia Fire destroyed two buildings and killed an elderly woman at Bella Dam, Pouderoyen, eyewitnesses said. A Citizen Reporter on the scene told Demerara Waves Online News that the fire engulfed the wooden house that was occupied by the woman, who was there alone, and quickly spread to Puran’s Waste Disposal ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 8 August 2015, 15:23 by GxMedia United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon is calling on the international community to help improve the health and well-being of  Indigenous Peoples across the world. He listed them as inadequate sanitation and housing, lack of prenatal care, widespread violence against women, and high rates of diabetes, drug and alcohol ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 8 August 2015, 1:13 by GxMedia Reproduced from Barbados Advocate Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Freundel Stuart, met yesterday with His Excellency Jorge Arreaza, Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The Vice President was in Barbados as part of a regional tour to discuss Venezuela’s territorial and maritime claims in the region. During their ...

Last Updated on Friday, 7 August 2015, 20:49 by GxMedia After several weeks of intense grilling, the man police believed shot dead political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing was Friday afternoon charged with murder. He is 37-year old Regan ‘Grey Boy’ Rodrigues of Riverview, Ruimveldt. He is acuused of the murder of Crum-Ewing on March 10,2015 at Diamond , East Bank Demerara. ...

Last Updated on Friday, 7 August 2015, 19:36 by GxMedia by Zena Henry The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) on Friday welcomed government’s announcement that it would be fulfilling its 100 day promise to small miners by waiving duties on fuel, tools and small scale mining equipment. “We are very pleased. We have been asking for these things ...