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Hundreds threatened with unemployment at M&CC

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Coupled with the current restructuring ongoing at the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) hundreds of employees may lose their jobs at the municipality were the Guyana Labour Union (GLU) to...

Magistrate grants another provisional warrant for Dataram

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…lawyers move to High Court Attorneys for Barry Dataram yesterday moved to the High Courts before Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire after another provisional warrant was granted in the...

East Demerara estates production…Inquiry begins into the low sugar outputs

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The production inquiry into the East Demerara sugar estates yesterday began with Chairman of the committee, Vic Oditt, expressing optimism that the investigation will determine the cause of the...

Fire destroys West Demerara house

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By Rustom Seegopaul Responding quickly, the Guyana Fire Service contained a noonday fire at Hague, but was unable to save the structure. The house, at Lot 7 Hague Front, West Coast Demerara, was...

UG Turkeyen campus may be set for a January opening

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– UGSS President Though optimistic that things could be put in place shortly to allow for the re-opening of the University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus, President of the University’s Student...

Carifesta workers still to be paid

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– CEO apologies, promises resolution ‘soon’ It has been over a month since Carifesta X ended, yet staffers at the Carifesta Secretariat and several performers and other participants are...

‘Ex-convict’ jailed for stealing compressor Dr Ramsahoye compressor for scrap

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An Albouystown man was yesterday sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to a simple larceny charge. The accused, Carl Fraser, appearing before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa...

DNA on Lindo Creek victims will determine charges

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The police say they are still actively investigating the murder of miners at Lindo Creek, Upper Berbice River, but indicated that any possible charges will depend on the DNA findings being conducted...

Fireman denied bail for “ganja” possession

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–must wait three months for next hearing Joseph Phillips, 28, of Lot 129 James and King Edward Streets, Albouystown, was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before Magistrate Hazel...

BOSAI workers continue bauxite strike

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Workers of BOSAI Minerals Guyana Inc. in Linden yesterday continued industrial action as they seek to have colleagues who were recently dismissed and suspended re-employed and all warning letters...

Cuban archivist heading Guyana’s way

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Several experts in the field of archiving are scheduled to arrive in Guyana from Cuba in the near future to enhance and preserve the National Archives. During an interview, Cuban Ambassador to...

Dismissing Venezuela’s arms buildup is ‘infantile politics’

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–AFC Alliance for Change Leader, Raphael Trotman, says that the government’s response to the People’s National Congress Reform call for a position on the arms build up in Venezuela is...

Hinckson PI…Lead attorney absent, matter adjourned

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The Preliminary Inquiry into the Oliver Hinckson case has once again been delayed, this time because of the defence. When the matter was called yesterday before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa...

London-based son to return

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Sylvester Medor, who recently returned to the United Kingdom (UK) after a fruitless search for his mother in Guyana, will be returning to Guyana some time within the next two months. Following the...

Shotguns for Rampoor Policing Group

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The Americans once said to the local media that assistance is success driven. At the time the then Ambassador, Roland Bullen, was responding to queries that the United States was slow to help Guyana...

Four teens remanded for gun possession, armed robbery

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Raul Robinson, Travis Smith and Paul McKenzie, all 17-year-olds, were remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday, on a charge of armed...

New US Ambassador takes up post

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New US Ambassador to Guyana, John Melvin Jones, was yesterday welcomed by the Embassy and will present his credentials to President Bharrat Jagdeo at the Office of the President today. The Ambassador...

Education system to be reviewed to ensure better results

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– Minister Baksh The University of Guyana is failing to produce enough graduates in Science and Technology, a situation which, according to Education Minister Shaik Baksh, has been attributed to...

Lands and Survey launches investigation into Parika land sale

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The Guyana Lands and Survey Commission has launched an investigation into the sale of the house and land at Lot 40 Parika, East Bank Essequibo. The house and land were occupied by 61-year-old Naimoon...

Robbery report leads to gun find in Albouystown house

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Investigations into an armed robbery early yesterday morning led to the recovery of an unlicensed .22 Beretta pistol at an Albouystown house. The weapon was found in one of three bedrooms at a house...

FANCY LIGHT

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Maybe it’s a new style but you certainly will not take chances walking or driving under this lantern that hangs like the Sword of Damocles over the heads of passing motorists. The light was knocked...

6th Annual Nestle Supligen All-Star Weekend launched

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By Rawle Welch The ‘Staff Party’ for local basketball players or what is more familiarly referred to as the Nestle Supligen All-Star Weekend was officially launched yesterday, at Beepat’s Head...

Everest Hikers, Old Fort ‘B’ continue unbeaten streaks

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Everest Hikers First Division men continued their dominance of the Banks Night Hockey Tournament by edging GCC 1-0 in the feature encounter last Monday, at Thirst Park ground. All it took was a...

Mitchell prevails in ‘Dawn of a New Era’ 6 laps Race Walk affair

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Rudolph Mitchell clocked a time of 55minutes 38 seconds, in the process embarrassing a field of youngsters far younger than himself to win the ‘Dawn of a New Era” 6 laps Race Walk around the...

“My life will never be the same again”

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– says mother of dead basketball playerBy Edison Jefford Martin Carter’s immortal line, “Death will not find us thinking that we die” in the poem ‘Death of a Comrade’, should offer hope...

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Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy Eagles

A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more