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GEORGETOWN – A senior representative from a Corentyne-based non-governmental organisation that seeks to empower girls has returned from the United States (US) with additional skills and expertise gained from an American Embassy-sponsored International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) exchange. The embassy said its Chargé d’Affaires Bryan Hunt met with Miriam Jainarine upon her return from the IVLP exchange.  Ms. Jainarine, Project Coordinator ...

Skeletal remains found in bushes in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, United States earlier this year have now been identified as those of a Guyana-born man. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office Tuesday said the remains are those of 63-year-old Michael Augustus Parkinson, a homeless man who only moved to Birmingham months before he likely died. The cause of Parkinson’s death can’t be ...

Authorities are monitoring forest fires partly due to a drought in the Rupununi where residents have begun receiving emergency supplies of water. The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment says aerial surveillance and satellite imagery show that only leaf litter and dry vegetation are burning.  “However, the fires have not yet been observed consuming mature trees or destroying large ...

The opposition on Monday pledged to re-professionalize the public service, pay teachers more as well as slash income, value added and import taxes on brand new vehicles. If elected to office on May 11, the coalition of A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) also intends to reward large businesses with tax breaks in exchange for establishing ...

Opposition coalition Presidential Candidate, David Granger Monday night said if he is elected to office next month soldiers involved in same-sex relations would not face discrimination but they would not be deployed to the same location in order to avoid adverse impact on operations. Addressing a Candidate Issue Session organised by the Guyana Women’s Roundtable and the Guyana National Youth ...

The Carter Centre is preparing to gradually deploy a 40-member mission to observe next month’s general and regional elections, according to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). GECOM said in a statement that this was indicated by a precursor team of medium term observers from the Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered Carter Centre during last Friday’s meeting with GECOM Chairman, Dr. Steve Surujbally, when they ...

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) Monday afternoon explained the cause of a major shutdown Sunday night that affected the city and several villages in Demerara and Berbice. The com-pany said that at approximately 8:18 Monday night,  a canter while en route east along the railway embankment crashed and broke a pole at Mon Repos supporting a primary 69 kv ...

The incumbent People’s Progressive Party (PPP)  and the opposition coalition have locked horns over the ruling party including several families on its list of candidates for next month’s general and regional elections. The coaition of a A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) has labeled the PPP-Civic’s list as “nepotistic” in the face of President Donald Ramotar and ...

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Radha Krishna Sharma is dissapointed by  issued the Public Utility Commission’s (PUC) rejection of the company’s recent request for an increase in domestic rates for the first time in 10 years, saying the country has lost an opportunity for lower international rates and improved quality of service. “We are ...

Two guns and several rounds of ammunition were seized in just over five hours by police at separate locations. In the first instance, at about 8PM Sunday April 12, 2015, while conducting investigations into a report of threats, the police recovered an unlicensed .32 pistol along with 17 rounds at 4 Miles, Arakaka, North West District. A man has been ...