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REUTERS: Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday, his younger brother announced to the nation. He was 90. (Guyana and Cuba established diplomatic relations in 1972. Since then, that Spanish-speaking nation has provided thousands of scholarships to ...

Three bandits robbed China Town store at Number 2 Village, East Canje, Berbice and lashed one of the employees to her face before they escaped with a large quantity of cash and phone cards, police said. Investigators said the robbery under arms  was committed on Zhou Chunmin, 25 years, of No. 2 Village, East Canje, Berbice at about 8:35 Thursday night ...

After weeks of disconnected land-line and shaky cellular connection in Mabaruma from Guyana’s only land-line provider, residents of Mabaruma, North West District are breathing a sigh of relief after the community of 300 subscribers was finally reconnected last Sunday. Reports reaching Demerara Waves Online News suggest that residents were left out of the loop for quite some time about what ...

As the world observes 16 days of activism to end violence against women and children, the European Union’s (EU) mission here in Georgetown has lit up its building orange in solidarity with the movement. While EU Ambassador to Guyana, Jernej Videtic believes judicial reform is necessary to end violence against women and children, local voices feel such reform must be complemented ...

The Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awarness (CADVA) organisation has unveiled a miniature sculpture of domestic violence victim, Babita Sarjou, whose skeletal remains were found earlier this year in a shallow grave in her husband’s backyard. Sarjou’s remains were found by police near a fence and alleyway drain at Seaforth Street Campbelville. Her reputed husband, Anand Narine, and an alleged co-accused ...

Shadow Junior Finance Minister, Juan Edghill on Friday sought to convince the parliamentary disciplinary committee that he did not mislead the National Assembly when he said the increase in ministerial and other salaries would cost the Treasury an almost GYD$1 billion dollars over government’s five-year term. The committee decided to consider his calculations and then summon him, if necessary, to ...

ExxonMobil has dismissed suggestions that Guyanese are not being hired, and has announced a plan to train and recruit locals for ongoing preparatory work and actual commercial production. Country Manager, Jeff Simmons said the evidence shows that ExxonMobil is not interested in importing foreigners instead of Guyanese. “One common mis-perception is that we don’t want to have local content, we ...

ExxonMobil has ruled out building a refinery in Guyana because the amount of oil found here is too small to support such a venture. Delivering a presentation to the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) Awards and Dinner, the Country Manager of ExxonMobil’s local subsidiary- Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited- Jeff Simons said the projected production of  about 100,000 barrels per ...

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is not buying the position of Attorney General Basil Williams that Guyana is in the green zone for compliance with the global push for anti-money laundering regimes. “If we lull ourselves into a sense of false security, then we are going to repeat a lot of the mistakes made by the Attorney General, and we are ...

President David Granger Thursday said Homestretch Development Incorporated (HDI) was established solely to facilitate completion of the D’urban Park Development Project in time for Guyana’s 50thIndependence Anniversary celebration in the absence of budgetary allocations, following the May 2015 elections.  The Head of State, in a statement issued by his ministry  admitted that while this may have been an unusual course ...