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Reproduced from Caribbean Lifeby Tangerine Clarke Guyana’s award-winning billion-dollar XM Rum company has eluded the Guyanese community in New York for way too long due to stringent U.S. laws and regulations. But thanks to persistent requests from consumers for the alcohol, Banks DIH Limited recently partnered with New Jersey Royal Wine Incorporated, to distribute the popular liquor. Fans savored the ...

A businesswoman and her son were gun butted by armed bandits who invaded M. Ali and Son supermarket in New Amsterdam and escaped with at least GUY$500,000 in cash, police sources said. One of the bandits was mistakenly shot by his accomplice while he attempted to shoot an employee who knows him. The bandits launched their brazen attack on the ...

The State-owned radio and television stations, which were initially switched off due to severe flooding caused by heavy rainfall, are back on air. Chief Executive Officer of the National Communications Network, Molly Hassan said the flagship radio station, Voice of Guyana, resumed transmission. So, too, were NCN TV and 98.1FM.  The Government Information Agency said NCN TV “will provide regular ...

by Zena Henry A forgery charge against  Royston King, fomer Public Relations Officer at City Hall, was Thursday July 16 dismissed when the matter was up for another hearing at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court. King was accused of signing off documents to waive $36M in rates and taxes for charitable organisation, Beacon Foundation. The matter, which was before Magistrate Judy ...

Former People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) election candidate Clinton Urling is adamant that the country’s current economic situation is the work of the former administration and says that the new government should stop trying to defend themselves in this regard. The former Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) chair took to Facebook today Thursday July 16 expressing his views ...

Finance Minister, Winston Jordon, says the results of the 2012 Census may be obsolete by the time the final report is released as he says Bureau of Statistics Chief Statistician, Lennox Banjamin, has indicated to him the report is now due in the first quarter of 2016. Last year, during the release of the preliminary results of the 2012 Census ...

A tremor rattled several areas of Guyana; a spin-off from a quake off the coast of Barbados. “I sat down here and the whole place shaking. I in Festival City and the whole place rocking,” a resident in Festival City, North Ruimveldt told Demerara Waves Online News. The tremor was felt at about 11:16 AM. The United States Geological Services ...

by Zena Henry The government is setting to go across country to restore state symbols which they say have been neglected and left in a state of disrepair. Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman told media operatives during Cabinet’s press briefing Wednesday July 15, that the new government after taking up office, was taken aback by the condition of State properties ...

by Zena Henry The City Constabulary has recommended sanctions against former Town Clerk (ag) Carol Sooba over the “illegal” waiver of $27M for a popular businessman. The office of the Town Clerk has also recommended that the matter be handed over to the police for the appropriate action to be taken for the former city CEO’s  alleged financial misappropriation. Town ...

by Denis Chabrol and Chevy Devonish Severe flooding caused by overnight heavy rainfall has forced the closure of Guyana’s state-owned radio and television stations and at least one private radio station and the Turkeyen Campus of the University of Guyana, officials said. Efforts were also being made by the National Cultural Centre to remove chairs closer  the flood waters that ...