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The Education Ministry on Wednesday said Caribbean Secondary Education (CSEC) results would not be delivered to students unless they return textbooks that had been loaned to them. “Students who fail to return the textbooks, which were loaned to them by their school, will not be able to access their CXC results,” the ministry said in a brief statement. The Education ...

Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh is taking steps to restore monies that were not approved by the opposition-controlled National Assembly, Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon announced on Wednesday. Luncheon told a news conference that the Finance Minister would be relying on rulings by the High Court on budget cuts. “The minister relied on constitutional grounds and rulings of the constitutional ...

The way has been cleared for the top 25 University of Guyana (UG) Law Degree graduates to gain automatic entry to the Trinidad-based Hugh Wooding Law School, Attorney General Anil Nandlall confirmed on Wednesday. He said a decision was also taken for an additional 10 UG Law Degree graduates, who are non-Guyanese, to gain automatic entry to the Jamaica-based Norman ...

Today, Tuesday June 17, 2014 at approximately 04:09hrs, main switchgear within the Anna Regina Power Station had to be taken out of service following a flash over on a busbar insulator and resulting fire. As a result, the entire Essequibo Coast was without power while the extent of the damage was evaluated. Isolation of the affected section resulted in communities ...

An exceedingly rare 19th Century postage stamp from a British colony in South America has sold for a record $9.5m (£5.6m) at auction in New York. It took only two minutes for the British Guinea one-cent magenta stamp to be sold to an anonymous bidder, The stamp had been sold three times before, each time setting the auction record for ...

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miner’s Association (GGDMA ) is disappointed by recent statements and threats emanating for the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment and by notices published by the Guyana Gold Board which seem intent on criminalizing the entire mining industry. Government has said that gold declaration has dropped by 20 percent based on calculations up to ...

Heavy duty trucks and equipment have been banned from using the roadway to the Charity Wharf because they are partly responsible for the deterioration of the Charity River Defence. “Engineers have determined that heavy duty equipment/trucks that traverse the area – to the port facility – contribute to the vulnerability of defence,” said the Public Works Ministry in a statement. ...

A man, who admitted to the attempted smuggling of 22 Twa-Twa birds to Canada, was Tuesday freed from because the law under which he was charged does not cater for those finches. Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry struck out the charge against Canada-based Nazir Khan. He was arrested on June 13, 2014 at the Cheddi Jagan International Development Airport (CJIA) with ...

House Speaker, Raphael Trotman on Tuesday called for a return to the constituency first-pass-the-post electoral system to allow for direct election of parliamentarians rather than selection at the discretion of the leader.  “That is something we have to change and get rid of and it’s been here since 1964 and it has to go, the party list system,” Trotman told ...

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) on Tuesday said there could be an interruption in sewage disposal during the change-over from the old system to a new one that has been funded by government and the Inter American Development Bank (IDB). “This exercise may result in a temporary interruption of the system,” said the utility company in a statement. The decommissioning ...