BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) on Sunday advised candidates that the results of this year’s Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination®  (CAPE®), Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate® (CSEC®) and Caribbean Certificate of  Secondary Level Competence® (CCSLC®) examinations, will be released online at 6:00 pm  (AST) on Monday 5 September 2022. Candidates may access their results via the Student  Portal at ...

The Demerara Harbour Bridge  reopened to light traffic at  5:16 PM on Sunday, officials said. Light traffic is usually classified as bikes, cars and minibuses. Officials said there would be 30 minutes free tolling. The decision to reopen the bridge to a few categories of vehicles comes as engineers and other workers continue to repair damage caused after a tug, ...

A prominent city businessman and major Guyanese investor in the oil and gas sector on Sunday publicly denounced the opposition for claiming that there is apartheid and he instead lauded President Irfaan Ali’s One Guyana agenda. In clear reference to A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) claims of racial segregation and discrimination against Afro-Guyanese, Nicholas Deygoo-Boyer criticised the ...

The Demerara Harbour Bridge said its engineers and technical staff are currently working on getting the bridge back in alignment, after a tug, with two sand-laden barges , hit the structure late Sunday morning. In a statement issued shortly after  3PM Sunday, the bridge’s management said at the moment, the team is working to repair retractor span 9 after a ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Saturday challenged other opposition parties to “confront” the People’s Progressive Party Civic-led administration on electoral and constitutional reform before local government elections.  “The time for talk is over. The PPP only understands pressure. The PPP will only crack when we beat sense into their head and the WPA is confident that anything short of ...

Traffic across the Demerara Harbour Bridge on Sunday afternoon ground to a halt after a barge slammed into that east west corridor. There were long lines of heavily built up traffic leading to and around the Harbour Bridge which continues to be dogged by age-related problems “A tug and barge hit the bridge. Technicians are working on emergency repairs. No ...

The opposition A Partnership or National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Saturday night , in the wake of condemnations by the People’s Progressive Party Civic-led administration that it is engaging in widespread discrimination against Afro-Guyanese, denied that it was targeting Indo-Guyanese.  “Let me say to my Indian brothers and sisters…I am saying to you: when ...

Guyana is expected to earn US$1.1 billion from 13 lifts as its entitlement from the ExxonMobil-led consortium due to the Russia-Ukraine war, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), according to the Ministry of Finances mid-year report. “Government is now projected to earn US$1.1 billion as revenue from the sale of our share of profit oil, and US$147.7 million in ...

Fire Saturday night destroyed a huge Chinese supermarket in the southern Guyanese town of Lethem. No details were immediately available, but available video footage shows fire fighters battling the flames with the assistance of one tender. The name of the supermarket is China Star. Fire Chief Gregory Wickham told Demerara Waves Online News that up to very late Saturday night ...

Even as Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday officially refused to pay GY$50 million in compensation to the Chairman of the International Decade for People of African Descent (IDPADA-G) Vincent Alexander for allegedly libeling him, that government-funded agency has handed over an audit report, saying it would prove that an estimated GY$500 million was not misspent. “Our client unreservedly rejects ...