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Qualfon, a Mexican-headquartered call centre that serves companies around the world, on Thursday opened a US$12 million campus that would eventually see at least 6,000 jobs being generated. The facility, the third by Qualfon in Guyana, is located at Providence, East Bank Demerara “You have transformed lives by employing literally thousands of persons and improving their lives,” Finance Minister, Dr. ...

Guyanese police up to late Thursday did not identify the semi-nude body of an Afro-Guyanese female who was found in the vicinity of the Buxto foreshore early in the day. Demerara Waves Online News was told that a 22-year old woman from East Ruimveldt has not been seen since Monday and she has not been answering or returning calls. Family ...

The nude body of a young woman was Wednesday morning found on the East Coast Demerara foreshore in the vicinity of UG (University of Guyana) Road. The body was found on boulders that are part of the sea defence structure. It is unclear whether the body was thrown of washed up there. Only recently, the body of a man was ...

Port Vila, Vanuatu: Digicel has officially launched an appeal for donations to collect much-needed funds to assist with the relief efforts in cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu. Partnering with Save the Children Australia, Digicel is collecting funds via SMS and online. The nation of Vanuatu was hit by a category 5 cyclone in the early hours of Saturday 14th March. With winds of ...

(PORT CITY DAILY) More than 1,000 people in the village of Coomacka, in the small South American republic of Guyana, don’t have to depend on a polluted river for their drinking water any longer after a delegation of Wilmington Rotarians, with $48,000 to work with, helped to correct that problem, according to a news release from the Wilmington Rotary Club. ...

Mobile marketing and the delivery of information and entertainment in Guyana have been given another significant boost with the launching of a new mobile app called “SmartSure Guyana”. Plans are also in the pipeline to expand similar types of ads for other Caribbean countries. “SmartSure Guyana” , which can be downloaded from the Google Play Store by clicking here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.conduit.app_57b54b2a2e044722800fcc64a23297ee.app or ...

Public Works Minister, Robeson Benn’s abandoned home at Linden was Tuesday afternoon destroyed by fire. Sources said Benn believed that the blaze could have been caused by grass fire that eventually caught the wooden and concrete structure. After Benn and his family moved from the once thriving bauxite mining town, household items were stolen and eventually the house was vandalized. ...

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has agreed to help rate Guyanese eligibility for loans and credit through a partnership with Creditinfo Guyana, the utility company said in a statement Tuesday. Recently, senior officials from Creditinfo Guyana and the Guyana Water Inc. shook hands to mark the implementation of a historic partnership, driven by their shared concerns and mutual support for ...

Guyana’s opposition coalition plans to pay government employees a 13 percent increase in salaries if it wins the upcoming general elections, according to its prime ministerial candidate Moses Nagamootoo. “We are voting for ten and thirteen percent across-the-board wage increase for public servants, for teachers, for nurses  and for policemen and women and other people in the public service,” he ...

The governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) appears to be satisfied with the size of the voters’ list, despite concerns by the opposition that the roll has grown by at least 100,000 persons since the 2011 general and regional elections. PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee said his party has not been advised that there was a problem with the voters list ...