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Monthly Archives: April 2020

COVID-19: May Day march, rally cancelled

Last Updated on Friday, 12 June 2020, 17:49 by Writer The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has cancelled its Annual May Day March and Rally usually held on 1st May owing to COVID-19. May Day or the Workers’ Day is next Friday. The GTUC says, in keeping with the government’s guidelines and safety concerns about public gathering surrounding the novel ...

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34 companies submit expressions of interest to market Guyana’s crude oil

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 22:34 by Writer Thirty-four companies on Tuesday submitted expressions of interest (EOIs) to sell Guyana’s oil exports over a period of 12 months. The EOIs were opened by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board. Already, the Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of Energy has said the company that wins the bid to ...

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130 Guyanese laid off as RUSAL closure triggers German transshipment company exit

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 22:29 by Writer More than 130 workers have been sent home as a result of the Germany-headquartered, Oldendorff Carriers Guyana Inc (OCGI) closure of its transshipment service in Guyana three months after the Russian Aluminium (RUSAL)-majority owned bauxite company shut down its operations. “Unfortunately, OCGI’s customer in Guyana has decided to suspend and ...

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OPINION: Guyana elections: Rigging for Dummies

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 22:15 by Writer by Paul Sanders, New York It will probably take a degree in law. Or political science. Or whatever! They should have seen this coming. Guyanese are living through the world’s stupidest era. Stupidity, while innately comical especially in the political sphere, often comes with a side of brutality. And we ...

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OPINION: Americans are now faced with two critical emergencies: the COVID-19 pandemic, and Donald Trump

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 21:59 by Writer by Paul Sanders, New York Had you watched Trump’s press briefing on Monday you’d conclude by now that the man occupying the White House should be in an inpatient mental-facility. His manic, gibbering ragefest was a complete meltdown shitshow of a failed man who has long ago passed the limits ...

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OPINION: Oil futures below zero; meaningless to most Guyanese

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 21:47 by Writer By GHK Lall Oil prices, the futures to be precise, went into negative territory for the first time in their volatile stormy history. For many it is like the end of the world. Yet, here are Guyanese lost in the impenetrable hazes of their own little world, who could care ...

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GECOM gets green-light to adjust recount hours, no quarantine for foreigners

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 21:21 by Writer The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will possibly work a 10-hour work day for the national recount and the CARICOM high-level team and international observers will no longer have to be quarantined for 14 days. Sources have confirmed to News Talk Radio Guyana that communications to the GECOM Chairperson Justice Claudette ...

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