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President Jagdeo says … Guyana’s EPA signing in limbo

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Guyana has been betrayed by some CARICOM countries who are seeking to have Europe force the county into signing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). However, yesterday President Bharrat Jagdeo...

Country cushioned against global financial crisis – Jagdeo

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The world financial crisis will have major implications for counties like Guyana but these impacts will not be felt here in the immediate future. Yesterday, President Bharrat Jagdeo said that while...

Electricity expansion… Guyana secures US$40M from China

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President Bharrat Jagdeo, during his press conference yesterday, said that while in China for the World Economic Forum, he took the opportunity to meet with Premier, Wen Jiabao, and also the governor...

Lethem is no freeport – Sattaur… Foreign plates vehicles seized

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Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Khurshid Sattaur, has stated that Lethem is no free port and all goods, including vehicles entering Guyana through that area, are subject to duty...

Guyana slips in rankings as business investment venue

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The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, in a report that investigated regulations that enhances business activity and those that constrain it in 181 countries, rank Guyana at 105....

Decomposed body found in canal at C’tyne

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EAST LOTHIAN, CORENTYNE – Police in Berbice are trying to ascertain the identity of a decomposed body found in a canal at Number Thirty-three East Lothian (Number Nineteen Corentyne Highway)....

New US Ambassador John Jones hands over his credentials to President Jagdeo

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Venezuela’s close relationship with Russia has nothing to do with his appointment to Guyana as United States Ambassador, John Melvin Jones said yesterday. Mr Jones was at the time responding to a...

‘Good Samaritans’ turn out to be vagabonds

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Three men relieved an Israeli businessman who arrived in Guyana from Suriname of a quantity of foreign currency and his personal belongings. The three had offered to take the Israeli to neighbouring...

Sophia reports neglected handicapped child

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…Welfare Dept says nothing wrong Responding to reports that a handicapped child no older than eight was being neglected, a Human Services Welfare Officer yesterday descended on the 199 South Sophia...

Bus driver’s wife claims spouse ingested insecticide

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…as controversy brews over post mortem results The wife of minibus driver Ovid Austin says that her spouse confided that he had ingested the insecticide monocrotophos some hours before succumbing...

Man found dead, murder suspected

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Police on the East Coast of Demerara are investigating what they suspect to be a murder committed on a 55-year-old man at Mahaicony on Monday. The body of Jaikarran Tiwari, of Novar, Mahaicony, was...

Hydromet Dept promises improved services

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Guyana’s Hydrometeorological Service is currently celebrating its 43rd anniversary and Chief Hydrometeorological Officer, Bhaleka Seulall has promised that the hydromet department is committed to...

Police Complaints Authority to visit Region One

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Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority, Justice Cecil Kennard, would be visiting Mabaruma in Region One tomorrow. This visit would entail discussions with the residents. The meeting would be...

Neil Persram is new addition to the Bar

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After years of studying, Neil Persram was finally admitted to the bar on Monday last by Acting Chief Justice, Ian Chang. During his admission to the bar, Chief Justice Chang advised Persram to keep...

Guardian comes clean, disputes son’s story

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By Rustom Seegopaul Hubert Thomas Alexander, the man left as the guardian of Noelina Medor, the elderly woman who was recently found in a house in Craig, has approached the media to tell his side of...

Good Samaritan saves13-year-old from NOC

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Yesterday, a 13-year-old Cotton Field Secondary School student was saved from being separated from his mother and sent to the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) at Onderneeming, Essequibo Coast. Mr. Ano...

Deportee from Texas lands in court

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– ‘I wanted to be with my family’ Nadiram Alli, a Pomeroon resident, was yesterday given an alternative of paying a $20,000 fine or serve 12 months in prison after he was recently...

Cause of Worrel’s death unknown – post mortem

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The post–mortem for the Courts Pacesetters basketball player, who collapsed and died on Burnham Basketball Court on Sunday failed to answer the question as to what caused the sudden death of the...

DCB Hand-in-Hand 2nd division cricket (West Demerara zone)

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McKay slams ton as Cultural, McGill advance to zone final By Sean Devers Skipper Shawn McKay led from the front with a commanding 103 in a losing cause as Meten-Meer-Zorg lost to Cultural in the...

GCB releases teams for special 3-day games

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The Guyana Cricket Board has released the names of the players that will comprise the three teams to compete in a specially arranged 3-day matches. This series of matches replaced the Senior...

Teen doused with corrosive substance while asleep

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Haniyfa Cordis, 15, was yesterday morning burnt with a corrosive substance, which was allegedly thrown on her by another teen whilst she was sleeping. Reports reaching this newspaper state that the...

Drainage, sewerage woes to be resolved in Stevedore Scheme

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Following a meeting with the residents of Stevedore Housing Scheme, City Mayor Hamilton Green, accompanied by representatives of Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), yesterday took a walk through the...

Tenelec U-15 two-innings Berbice cricket

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Rose Hall Town’s Lloydel Lewis’ 10-wkt haul destroys Tain Rose Hall Town Farfan & Mendes registered an outright win over Tain as the Tenelec Inc. under-15 two-innings cricket competition...

NBS Challenge 2nd division Berbice cricket

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West Indies female pacer Erva Giddings grabs 5-32 West Indies female team selectee, left-arm fast bowler Erva Giddings, warmed up for the regional team’s tour to Sri Lanka with a five-wicket haul...

National Chess Championships qualification starts Sunday

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The qualification for the National Chess Championships begins this Sunday at the St Stanislaus College on Brickdam. The tournament will be played according to the Swiss System and consist of eight...

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Guyana’s oil bonanza is being squandered by political duels

Kaieteur News – In Guyana, politics and economics have always danced an ill-fated tango. It is difficult to say which... more