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CELAC’S RISING INFLUENCE AND DIMINISHING OF OAS
THIS COLUMN was written as CARICOM Heads of Government and Foreign Ministers were returning home from participating in last week’s two-day second summit of the fledgling, but already well recognised...
View ArticleThe Bible says… : Anyone who enters the ‘House’ through the back door is a thief
IN RELATION to the Chief Justice’s ruling on the country’s Budgetary cuts by the parliamentary Opposition, Wednesday, January 29, 2014 was indeed an historic day for Guyana and the Guyanese people when...
View ArticleExcessive corporal punishment in schools
I WANT to bring to the notice of the Minister of Education that teachers are ill-treating children at schools, because at the Skeldon Primary (Scotts School) the nursery school teacher, who started to...
View ArticleHonest citizens are paying for electricity thefts
PRIME Minister Sam Hinds reports that Latin American countries average 16%, North America, about 6%, and so too, Europe and Japan. At the other end, India, Bangladesh and a number of African countries...
View ArticleIs the Opposition fighting for the right to destroy Guyana?
WHO gives the Opposition parliamentarians the right to destroy Guyana? Certainly not those who voted for them, as they would normally claim. I am convinced that the overwhelming majority of those who...
View ArticleTrevor Rose to be buried today
POPULAR costume designer and events promoter Trevor Rose, who was gunned down execution style two Sundays ago at the entrance of Eccles Housing Scheme, EBD, will be laid to rest today.The Guyana Police...
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Murder at Agricola… : Police seeking ‘info’ on main suspect : –Injured...
INVESTIGATORS are continuing their probe into Friday night’s murder of 55-year-old Donna Taylor, and injury of her UK-based friend, Samantha Sabat, who jumped through a bedroom window and had to be...
View ArticlePlans afoot to relocate old, still serviceable Demerara Harbour Bridge :...
A FRESHWATER environment is the perfect habitat in which to relocate the current Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) when its replacement comes into operation, and according to Minister of Public Works, Mr...
View ArticleStricter enforcement, better management : –is thrust this year of natural...
MINISTER of Natural Resources and the Environment, Mr. Robert Persaud, met Friday with the managers and heads of the various agencies that fall under his purview and read them the riot act, so to...
View ArticleHouse approves $6.6M for new restrooms for Public Buildings : –APNU questions...
THE Public Buildings will soon boast additional washrooms as a result of a $6.6M capital funding approved at the last sitting of the National Assembly, but not without the usual objection by APNU...
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President, PM, Opposition Leader join in celebration as… : Anglican Church...
THREE Reverends and one Venerable were yesterday installed to higher positions within the Diocese of Guyana. NEWLY INSTALLED: Standing from left are: The Very Reverend Paul Andrew Carto; The Venerable...
View ArticleWhat happens to children left without parental care and guidance?
MY heart goes out to Nicholas Kissoon, the young man who is allegedly a “sex commercial worker”, and who accused the cops of sodomy. Kissoon went to the rooftop of the Police Co-op building to gain...
View ArticleGlobal food prices still impact Guyana
EVEN though Guyana is a net exporter of food, it is not insulated from the impact of global food prices. Guyana is the only country in the Caribbean basin which can claim the status as a net exporter...
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Commentary by David DeGroot
VIOLENCE in the country is a national disgrace and the priority concern of all right-thinking Guyanese, so the time is long past for drastic measures to be put in place to arrest the prevalent use of...
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Mother, toddler fall into manhole at Stabroek
–KFC staff had illegally removed cover to clear blockage TWO-year-old Hailey Thomas and her mother, of 83 William Street, Kitty, almost drowned when they fell into a manhole on the pavement in front of...
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Imbibing fishermen get entangled in seine and perish
- bodies found at Meten-Meer-Zorg foreshore THE bodies of Sahadeo ‘Jango’ Bhagwandat and Ramdeo ‘Bobby’ Sijogie, both 46 years old, were yesterday fished out of a trench leading to the Meten-Meer-Zorg...
View ArticleMan jailed for threatening to kill wife
MARK Singh (no address given) was yesterday sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for using threatening language to his reputed wife. His case was first called before Chief Magistrate Priya...
View ArticleAlleged cop killer remanded
RICHARD Bacchus (no address given) was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry to answer the following three charges: (1) Discharging a loaded...
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At PAC meeting…GECOM’s acting CEO in ‘hot seat’ over financial irregularities
AUDITOR General, Deodat Sharma is sticking to his 2011 report on the financial management at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), where several areas have raised red flags for the Parliamentary...
View ArticleOpposition walks out of AML sub-committee meeting
- objects to PSC observing committee meetings OPPOSITION parliamentarians last evening walked out of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Special Select Committee meeting, in response to Government support...
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