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Veteran broadcaster and actor, Ron Robinson was recovering from a serious accident involving a high-powered motorcycle. A neck brace, respirator and monitoring equipment have been removed from him and up and he was resting comfortably up to late Wednesday night in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). His broken left leg was very swollen. The ...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has appealed to the international community to support the Region’s call for the immediate review of the criteria used by multilateral financial institutions (MFIs) and some development partners to graduate small highly indebted middle income countries (SHIMICS) from access to concessional resources. The appeal was issued by Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago ...

NEW YORK – September 26, 2013 – NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG) and Digicel on Thursday jointly announced at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York a partnership to acquire, construct and operate renewable energy projects under development in the Caribbean region. NRG and Digicel stand ready to bring financial and environmental benefits to the governments, utilities and peoples ...

President Donald Ramotar on Thursday chided sections of the West for displaying double-standards in political upheavals in Egypt and Syria, saying that those actions all amounted to terrorism. He was at the time addressing the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York- the main deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the institution’s 193 member countries. “We ...

Students of Mahdia Primary School and their parents are Thursday protesting what they say is the dismissal of the Head Teacher based on a series of trumped up charges including absenteeism and alleged unaccountability of school funds. The overwhelming majority of students have stayed away and have been joined by their parents in front of the school to press demands ...

Bandits Wednesday night opened fire at the home of a businesswoman before fleeing empty handed in the latest reported attack on the West Coast Demerara/ East Bank Essequibo area. Sharmila Shaw, a stallholder at the Parika Market, and her son Shawn Ally Shaw confirmed that several men attempted to enter their home at Tuschen New Scheme, East Bank Essequibo around ...

An elderly woman was burnt to death in a house in East Berbice one day before her birthday but her older sister escaped the hungry flames, officials said. The dead woman has been identified Margaret London of 7 Cross Street, Islington. She would have been 86 on Thursday. Eyewitnesses said her sister, 93 year old Olive London, was snatched from ...

Residential and commercial electricity consumers in Bartica are expected to breathe a sigh of relief with the expected end to prolonged blackouts and erratic power supply. The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) on Wednesday announced that electricity generation to the gold-dependent township has been restored to full capacity as a result of the installation to two generators, enabling the company ...

Electricity supply to residents in Berbice was Wednesday evening expected to return to normalcy as technical teams continue to work assiduously to complete repairs to the two damaged raw water pumps at GPL’s pump house at Canefield Power Station, the power company said in a statement.    Repair to one of the damaged pumps has been completed thus enabling one of ...

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) will over the next three days decide its next move, especially since government effectively ruled out giving into demands for hefty wage and salary increases. GPSU President, Patrick Yarde said the issue would be discussed at the union’s 20th Biennial Conference being held from September 25 to 27 under the theme “Relentlessly Pursuing Good ...