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The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has granted Guyana a US$20,000 reduction on the cost run to reschedule the sitting of Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE). As such, government is now required to pay CXC approximately US$365,000 ($73 million) as opposed to the previous figure of approximately US$380,000 ($80 million.) This is according to Minister ...

One of two carjackers was arrested and a stolen item recovered, following a shootout between police and the bandits. The Guyana Police Force said in a statement that at about 2100h last night Tuesday June 16, 2015, taxi-driver Zaheer Khaleel, 22 years, of Diamond Housing Scheme, EBD, was held up in the Housing Scheme by two men who had hired ...

Rejected Ballots at record low A total of 4043 ballots were declared invalid and thus rejected during Elections 2015, says Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Dr. Steve Surujbally. 412,012 persons voted in this year’s elections. As such, the number of rejected ballots amounts to 0.098 percent of total votes cast. This is down from 1.32 percent in 2011, when ...

(BARBADOS TODAY).-A Guyanese man was sentenced to seven years in prison by Chief Magistrate Pamela Beckles yesterday. The sentence was imposed after Ryon Marlon George pleaded guilty to seven drug charges in the Oistins Magistrates’ Court, involving 19. 6 kilograms of cocaine. The contraband, worth almost $1 million, was found on the MV Fairland cargo ship.    George lives at ...

In the face of intensified aggression by Venezuela to lay claim over the Essequibo Region, the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) on Tuesday called on the main opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) in the National Assembly and send a unified message to Guyana’s western neighbour. “The IAC recognizes that at this critical juncture in the history of Guyana, the PPP ...

by Zena Henry The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) has restated its commitment to ensuring that every sugar worker who contributed funds to the union as at the end of May last would be paid. This statement comes as hundreds of sugar workers are turning up at the union’s headquarters to retrieve contributions that would have been deducted ...

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) has until July 3rd, 2015 to file its elections petition. This deadline was triggered on June 5th, after the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) finally published, inter alia, the results of Elections 2015, and the names of persons who are to serve as Members of Parliament (MPs) in the 11th Parliament. PPPC General Secretary, Clement ...

Before letting down the LIAT ATR aircraft he was flying on Saturday June 13, Captain Paul DaSilva did the traditional low pass over the VC Bird International Airport on the island of Antigua and Barbuda to close a 29 year career with the “Caribbean Airline.”  DaSilva, a Guyanese-born pilot was greeted by scores of well-wishers, including family members and colleagues, ...

The European Union (EU) on Tuesday called on Guyana to heighten efforts to set a benchmark for reducing greenhouse gases that experts believe cause climate change spawning droughts, storms and floods. “Climate change is a particularly important issue for Guyana and the Caribbean region, and I urge Guyana to follow the EU’s lead by intensifying their domestic preparations to put ...

by Zena Henry Even though a date has not yet been set for the overdue Local Government Elections (LGE), the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) have already expressed an unwillingness to part take in the regional elections if chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Dr. Steve Surujbally should remain. At the party’s press conference, Monday June 15, General Secretary Clement ...