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No active COVID-19 cases in Region Nine but threat from Brazil travel persists
Although Region Nine has no active cases of the coronavirus disease and everyone who had direct contact with the region’s only confirmed case have tested negative, it is still under threat as persons continue to travel back and forth between Guyana and
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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Sunday Brew — May 31, 2020
If information which surfaced over last weekend that there could have been manipulation of Leon Bailey to openly criticise the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is true, then it would be most
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City-based Santa Rosa residents funneling support to COVID-19 ravaged village
Even when the community they are residing in wasn’t considered a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) hotspot in Guyana, residents of Santa Rosa had made known their struggles with the restrictions that were implemented to keep the Indigenous village
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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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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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
More Latinas Are Choosing to Identify as Afro-Latina
When Aisha Cort walks into a convenience store with her rich brown skin and tiny dark locs, she knows she has the power to cause confusion by speaking
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Guyanese helping and benefiting from Richmond Hill pantry
Every Saturday over 1,600 Guyanese and other immigrants leave the Calvary’s Mission Food Pantry (CMFP) in Richmond Hill, Queens in New York feeling relieved that their week’s groceries have been taken care
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Sobhraj Foundation donates 1,000 COVID-19 hampers
One thousand hampers have been donated to several organisations and communities in Guyana by the Jay and Silvia Sobhraj Foundation in an effort to provide relief to persons affected by the coronavirus disease
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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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Nicholas E. Brathwaite is cofounder and partner of Riverwood Capital, a global, growth equity, investment firm with over $2 billion in assets under management. Riverwood Capital invests in technology and technology services industries across a variety of verticals and
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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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If David Granger’s character and good name is in question he has only himself to blame
If David Granger’s character and good name is in question he has only himself to blame
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Grant, Bernie (1944–2000)
Born on the 17th of February 1944 in Georgetown, Guyana, Bernie Grant was elected to the British House of Commons in 1987 to serve as one of the country’s first black Members of Parliament (MPs). With a head teacher for a father and a teacher for a mother, Grant, the second of five children, was
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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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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Any polls declaration should be respected
Executive member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Dr Rupert Roopnaraine yesterday maintained that any declaration coming from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on the March 2 elections should be
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We must confront the pushback against social distancing
Trinidad and Tobago’s decision to begin a phased re-opening of parts of the country’s business sector following a period of ‘lockdown’ and outcomes which appear to suggest that significantly restricting the movement of people for a period may have impacted positively on the country’s status insofar
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Baird, Harry (1931-2005)
The physical presence that black British actor Harry Baird brought to the movie screen was largely a consequence of the United Kingdom going through the birthing pain of racism during the 1950s and 1960s.  Born in Guyana, this premier black actor was no Paul Robeson, but Harry Baird carried with
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Exxon oil output falls as compressor problems continue
Production at Exxon-Mobil’s Liza-1 project in the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana, has plummeted from 80,000 barrels per day (bpd) to now between 25,000 and 30,000 bpd as compressor problems continue and the company would not increase flaring above about 15 million cubic feet of natural gas per
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How Kenya ended up immortalising Jomo’s buddies
In the case of two other friends with origins in the State of Guyana, Ras Makonnen and Cecil Miller, President Jomo Kenyatta gave them Kenyan citizenship, jobs and facilitated their permanent settlement in the country, where he wanted them laid to rest when the time finally
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Jones, John Melvin (1944- )
John Melvin Jones was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Guyana in 2008.  Nominated by President George W. Bush on June 30, 2008, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and arrived in Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, on October 8 of that year.  Due to health issues, the result of injuries sustained while
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Parker, Maurice S. (1949- )
Ambassador Maurice S. Parker is a career Senior Foreign Service Officer with the rank of Minister-Counselor at the U.S. Department of State.  On April 30, 2007 Parker was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Swaziland.  After U.S. Senate confirmation, Parker
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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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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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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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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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All of Guyana’s Grade Six children must be treated in an equitable manner
It is extremely alarming that the Ministry of Education has failed to identify the measures which its officials intend to implement to protect the teachers and students of Regions 1, 2,7, 8 and
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Demerara Rebellion of 1823
The Demerara Rebellion of 1823 was an uprising involving more than ten thousand enslaved people in the Crown colony of Demerara-Essequibo (now part of Guyana) on the coast of South America. The rebellion took place on August 18, 1823, and lasted two days. No particular incident sparked the
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It’s time Mr Fisher’s firm advises his client to accept the will of the Guyanese people
Of course “Guyana elections battle matters to the US” as stated in his opinion piece dated June 19th 2020 in the Washington
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Caricom dismayed at new developments in Guyana
She added further that Caricom “is concerned at reports that the chief elections officer has submitted a report to the Guyana Elections Commission [GECOM] which is contrary to the directions given by the commission, and which does not reflect the results of the recount process as certified by the
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Govt, lending sector key to small business post-COVID recovery
It has not been simply a matter of these small businesses generating significant levels of employment and creating additional income streams for their owners, it was also, in many instances, a matter of ordinary people proving to themselves that they possessed skills and capabilities that they
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It is the hope of Guyanese that GECOM will choose well
Justice of Appeal Claudette Singh, suggesting a just, legal and non-partisan standard of proof that must be provided by any party that is asserting discrepancies and anomalies in the General and Regional Elections (G&RE) and/or the National Recount
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