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Jagdeo calls for swift swearing in of Ali
As he signalled a role for himself in the next government, former two-term President and PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that the constitution provides that PPP/C presidential candidate Irfaan Ali should be declared the winner based on votes
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Bullen, Roland Wentworth Boniface (1944- )
Roland Wentworth Bullen was born on Carriacou, one of the six islands that comprise the nation of Grenada. The product of a prominent family that owned several businesses, including the popular restaurant “Callaloo,” Bullen arrived in the United States in 1966. After obtaining his
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Flu vaccine available
Influenza vaccines are now available in Guyana as international health authorities continue to urge that vaccinations for the seasonal malady continue during the current COVID-19
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Masakenari taking steps to limit COVID-19 threat from Brazil
Despite having few resources to prevent the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from taking hold in their community, residents of Masakenari, Region Nine, are ensuring that no one crosses over to their side of the Guyana/Brazil
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Education setback
With necessity being the mother of invention, a great many schools all around the world were able to switch to using digital tools to continue imparting
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Western envoys: `Important for all stakeholders to uphold integrity of recount process and peacefully accept wishes of Guyanese'
Western envoys: `Important for all stakeholders to uphold integrity of recount process and peacefully accept wishes of
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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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Carter Center ‘deeply disappointed’ at not being able to return
Carter Center ‘deeply disappointed’ at not being able to return -says gov’t chose not to demonstrate ‘genuine commitment to
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Any decision by Court of Appeal in David case is appealable to the CCJ as of right
There appears to be a mistaken view that any decision by the Court of Appeal in the case brought by Eslyn David seeking to stop the declaration of the results of the March 2 elections is
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Guyanese likely to be the perennial losers again no matter who wins the elections
A casual perusal of the delivery of past campaign promises resulting in the ‘Guyanese Dream’, whether it was the PPP’s New Guyana Man or the PNC’s Small Man is the Real Man or the Coalition’s Good Life, will show that neither the PPP nor the PNC has made that dream possible for Guyanese for over
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PPP/C declared winner on Guyana elections | New York Carib News
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David Granger is without shame in continuing to defy the will of the people
It is clear as daylight on a bright sunny day, that David Granger, in power as a de facto President, with the full support of the police and army under his command, if not in absolute control, is most certainly complicit in an obvious and determined decision of APNU+AFC to remain in government
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CJ was duty bound to determine whether continued participation by Mingo would undermine public confidence in the process
A judicial review challenge to Mingo’s manipulated tabulation and fraudulent declaration was heard by Chief Justice, Roxane George-Wiltshire who, after ruling that the High Court had jurisdiction to hear the case upon the basis of its supervisory powers over a public body exercising public
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Above normal rainfall forecast for Caribbean
“However, with above normal rainfall expected over most of the Caribbean from July/August, drought concerns would greatly diminish with the southern islands of the Eastern Caribbean and Belize still having to be watchful,” it
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Haiti, Jamaica among countries Japanese told to avoid
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — Japan has raised its travel alert to level three for 18 more countries and has included Haiti among destinations to be avoided by its citizens, as a result of its increased cases of
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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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RHTY&SC/BCB aid fire victims
A Port Mourant family of five who recently lost their home to fire along with over 1000 families have benefited from the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC)/Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) COVID-19 relief programme, a release from the two organisations
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COVID-19 education sector threats ask searching questions of local IT sector - Starr Computers boss
The nature and impact of the coronavirus on developing countries like Guyana brings into sharp focus the importance of accelerating the growth of the information technology sector in order to better position it to address priority concerns when these arise, Starr Computers Chief Executive
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Former ACP boss decries lack of official result in Guyana's elections
GEORGTOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Former secretary general of the African Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP), Dr Patrick I Gomes says it is “shameful” that four months after a regional and general election, voters in Guyana are yet to know the official
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First batch of stranded Guyanese return home
The first group of Guyanese repatriated amidst COVID-19 protocols landed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, yesterday
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Guyana’s political tragedy
This crisis has been in the making for over 50 years – ever since the declaration of independence that came on the heels of the collapse of a multiracial anticolonial movement, the intervention of the joined imperialist forces of the UK and US and the convulsive coastal racial disturbances of the
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The elections end game
The most recent point at which Mr Granger could have done the right thing and spared the country from further agony was the presentation of the report of the three-person CARICOM observer team which bravely and sedulously undertook the scutinising of the recount and tabulation of votes over five
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Chief Election Officer is subordinate to GECOM
Lowenfield will be appropriately advised in due course that a singular reference to an officer in the Constitution does not make you a “Constitutional Officer” without the attendant provisions defining the office such as its genesis, its primary function, and protections distinct from the ordinary
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Reopening sugar estates would be a disaster
I have argued for nearly fifty years that the viability of sugar rests mainly on the relationship between labour and
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The Lady Jaguars, Guyana’s fact or fiction
The article “Guyana reaps rich rewards for investment,” which was published on the website of the world governing body, the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) on Thursday May 21st, has ignited a fierce debate on the actualities of an often contentious programme – the Lady
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PPP 'pleased' with GECOM decision | New York Carib News
GEORGETOWN – The main opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Tuesday night said that it wants a “speedy transition to a democratically elected government” as it awaits the official results of the disputed March 2 regional and general
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It is self-evident that the court would consider Mingo’s tabulation to be an act of fraud
Firstly, the CJ (ag) specifically declared that his use of the spreadsheet was unlawful, null and
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International environment group calls on Exxon to cease gas flaring
As ExxonMobil yesterday continued to play up its Guyana investments at its virtual Annual Meeting of shareholders, global environmental and human rights organisation, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) called on the company to heed environmental pollution warnings and immediately
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COVID-19 causes major disruption to large-scale mining
Even with favourable markets, large scale mining of minerals here has suffered major setbacks due mainly to health restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and this has left hundreds without
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