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Residents in Mahdia on Monday marched and blocked a main road to protest the poor condition of the roads and unsatisfactory potable water supply. However, a senior Public Works Ministry official says it only has GUY$30 million in the kitty and that money cannot build a strong asphalt road that will withstand heavy duty vehicles. Instead, and official said that ...

Guyanese singer Lisa Punch was Sunday night knocked out from the top seven contestants who will be going forward to the quarter finals of ABC’s Rising Star singing competition after she only mustered 59 percent. She sang “Girl On Fire”. Punch barely scraped up four votes from the US West Coast-  California, Oregon, and Washington-  during a replay of the two-hour ...

Caribbean youth advocates have agreed to unite around common issues that impact the region and speak with one voice for greater impact at the upcoming Third International Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The meeting will take place in Samoa, 1-4 September, 2014. Building on the Youth Declaration which emerged out of the Youth Empowerment ...

A senior official of Courts (Essequibo Branch) was Sunday listed in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) following an accident on the Essequibo Coast. Chandanie Das, 32, received injuries to head, neck, an arm, a leg and one of her lungs. Preliminary information received by Demerara Waves Online News states that the vehicle she was driving ...

Two persons were Saturday night seriously injured in a head on collision on the Taymouth Manor Public Road, Essequibo Coast. Residents said one of the four persons sustained spinal injuries and another’s leg was broken. The condition of the others was not immediately known. An officer of the Essequibo branch of the Institute of Private Enterprise Development, Rodwell Spellen , ...

A policeman and a Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) security guard were Emancipation Night- Friday, August 1- killed in a collision between the motorcycles they were riding on the Diamond Main Access Road. They are Constable Andrew Forde, who was assigned to Impact Base, Brickdam Police Station, and Stanley Adams of DDL. Forde lived at 194 Section C, Block Y, Diamond, ...

(TORONTO STAR.COM)A Guyanese-born man has been granted a last-minute reprieve from deportation so he can stay in Canada with his daughter, a Canadian aboriginal girl for whom he is the sole guardian. On Friday, the Federal Court of Canada held an emergency hearing into Curtis Lewis’s plea, and stayed his deportation to Guyana until a government tribunal decides whether to reopen ...

PORTLAND, Maine ( WLBZ NEWS CENTER) — A young woman from Guyana in South America is lucky to be alive, thanks to a medical team here in Maine. After two years of chronic headaches, Melissa Williams was diagnosed with a brain tumor. But Guyana does not have any neurosurgeons, and doctors in nearby Jamaica and Trinidad were too busy to take ...

Emancipation Day activities in a section of Linden were marred by the drowning of a nine-year old boy at a creek. Kassel Harlequin and his family had gone on an outing at the Blue Lake, Block 22. There, he and others decided to go in the waterway when tragedy struck. The details of the circumstances surrounding the incident that occurred ...

Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, in a presentation to the British House of Commons on 16 July 2014, expressed the view that the reparations process will bring honour and dignity to the people of the Caribbean as well as the people of Great Britain and Europe. The Caricom Headquarters also said Beckles predicted that “this ...