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With the COVID-19 outbreak cancelling traditional Independence Day activities, some Guyanese youth have suggestions for celebrating the day
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Exxon’s flaring raises concerns
An audit and review of their current operations and operational issues should be
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A Hanover man accused of abducting, robbing and raping a woman has been charged by the
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‘Mature’ Sankar looks to spin way into national side
‘Mature’ Sankar looks to spin way into national side
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Black-Owned Laboratory Uses Artificial Intelligence-Based Drug Discovery Platform to Develop Treatment for COVID-19
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The Church of St. Mark, Brooklyn, New York (1838- )
The Church of St. Mark in Brooklyn, New York was originally established by a group of black Episcopalians in 1838.  The next year, Dr. Samuel M. Haskins was asked to be rector (pastor), the role he would maintain for 60 years.  By April 1841 the congregation completed a Gothic style edifice in
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Shooting of John Crawford III
The shooting of John Crawford III occurred on August 5, 2014. Crawford was a 22-year-old African-American man shot to death by Beavercreek police officer Sean Williams, in a Walmart store in Beavercreek, Ohio, near Dayton, while holding a toy BB
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It is hard to argue PNC rigging is all history when history is repeating itself at this very moment.
The reports of the 303 Committee and a memorandum by Thomas H. Karamessines, Deputy CIA Director entitled “Plans of Guyana Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, Leader of the People’s National Congress (PNC), to Rig the Elections Scheduled for Late 1968 or Early 1969” might be a good starting point for
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Clarence Chue dead at 70
Former Comptroller of the then Customs and Excise Department, Clarence Chue died yesterday at a city hospital where he had been rushed. His son-in-law and husband of his only daughter Shona confirmed his passing with Stabroek News yesterday.
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CARICOM mourns passing of Miles Stoby
The Caribbean region is mourning the death of one of its most highly respected international public servants, Mr Miles Stoby, who retired from the United Nations Secretariat after decades of service, most of it in the area of economic and social
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Sloths, other animals being traded from Mabaruma in breach of closed season
The Guyana Wildlife Conservation and Management Commission (GWCMC) recently posted online the closed seasons for wildlife in
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Dire conditions at the Diamond Hospital isolation facility
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Karen Gordon-Boyle in the COVID-19 Daily Update of May 14 described the conditions at the quarantine and isolation
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CARICOM, the Caribbean Community Organization
Many countries located in the Caribbean Sea are members of the Caribbean Community, or CARICOM, an organization founded in 1973 to make these several small countries more cooperative, economically competitive, and influential in global politics. Headquartered in Georgetown, Guyana, CARICOM has
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A focal point for malaria should be added to the National COVID-19 task force
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Holding one’s breath for an expeditious, transparent and credible recount of the votes (Part IV)
Given the problems associated with the  original declaration of the results for Region 4, and its outright rejection by all the local and international observers as well as the political parties contesting the elections (except APNU+AFC) as having lacked transparency and credibility, a recount was
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Mabaruma solar farm to be operational month-end - Patterson
Works to rectify faults at the Mabaruma Solar Farm in Region One (Barima/Waini) are currently being undertaken as the Ministry of Public Infrastructure aims to have it up and running by the end of this month, de facto Minister David Patterson
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He who asserts must prove -GECOM Chair says about claims being raised at recount
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Kaie Kellough’s Magnetic Equator: An Appreciation in Guyanese-Diasporic-Quarantine
The announcement Tuesday morning (May 19th) that Kaie Kellough had won Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize—one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world—for his mesmerizing poetry collection, Magnetic Equator —marks an historical moment in the literary histories of diasporic Guyanese and
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Doctors attempt to kick down door at Diamond isolation facility
Shocking video of doctors kicking down the door of a room of a COVID-19 patient at the Isolation Unit at the Diamond Hospital was made public yesterday with patients expressing frustration that despite concerns continually being raised, the authorities continue to pay little heed and take minimal
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St. Maarten resident seeking others for flight home
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Georgetown, Guyana (1781- )
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Guyana to benefit from UK COVID-19 aid to PAHO
Washington D.C., May 22, 2020 (PAHO)— The United Kingdom has agreed to contribute 3 million Pounds (USD $3.8 m) to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to help eight countries of the Caribbean – Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent
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COVID-19 education sector threats ask searching questions of local IT sector - Starr Computers boss
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