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Education Minister, Priya Manickchand on Tuesday partly attributed improvements in this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) to the Automatic Promotion System (APS) that prevents students from repeating grades or opting to drop out of school. Manickchand told a news briefing after announcing top CSEC and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) performers that the APS impacted on the results this ...

(TIMES LEDGER).-A federal jury found Ozone Park Democrat Guyana-born Albert Baldeo guilty of obstruction of justice, but acquitted him of mail and wire fraud charges Monday, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. Baldeo, a former Democratic district leader and candidate for office, turned himself into the FBI in November 2012, after he was charged with having fake donors contribute ...

A Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) employee was Monday night gunned down on Eastern Highway, Prashad Nagar while he was riding his motorcycle. He has been identified as 29-year old Marvin Cumbermack of 190 North East La Penitence, Georgetown. He worked at the GWI Sophia Water Treatment Plant Sources said he was going to meet his girlfriend when he was shot ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Robin Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and made him a gleamy-eyed laureate for the Information Age, died Monday in an apparent suicide. He was 63. Williams was pronounced dead at his home in California on Monday, according to the sheriff’s office ...

There were conflicting views on Monday about whether votes by naturalized Guyanese and Commonwealth citizens can determine the outcome of the next general election that is expected within another five months. The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) brushed off suggestions that the immigrant-vote would be a decider in the polls while the Alliance For Change (AFC) felt strongly that it could ...

General Secretary of the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee on Monday hinted strongly that elections might be called before the National Assembly debates an opposition-sponsored no-confidence motion.  He said calling the election before the debate, was under “active consideration” by the PPP-Civic- led administration. “It remains an option under active consideration,” he told a news conference, adding that ...

A former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier early Monday morning burnt down his house after threatening to kill his family but he has so far not yet been arrested, according to well-placed sources. The incident occurred at Enterprise Railway Road, East Coast Demerara about 1:50 AM. No one was injured in the blaze that quickly engulfed the one-flat wooden and ...

A West Coast Demerara policeman has been arrested in connection with the alleged theft of at least GUY$8 million from the coffers of the Guyana Police Force, according to well-placed sources. The Sergeant, who is based at the Leonora-based Division ‘D’ Headquarters, was placed under close arrest on Saturday, after an officer from the Finance Department at Police Headquarters , ...

Former People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Executive Member, Vincent Alexander on Sunday recommended a short period of shared governance to ensure that there is a permanent level playing field to address problems facing African Guyanese and other race groups. “I don’t think we need shared governance forever and ever and ever. We need it as a transition where we can ...

A gold miner was killed on Sunday when a mining pit caved in at Mazwa Mountain, Marudi, deep South Rupununi. Confirmed dead is 56-year old Clifton Rodrigues of Aishalton, according to usually reliable sources. The pit caved in and trapped three miners about 300 feet below the surface but, according to the sources, one of them managed to escape to ...