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  • Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited

    By Staff | Monday, January 5, 2009 | 0 Comments


    Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited

    Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited says its Camp Street branch customer Alison Tinnie was the second winner in its ‘Make all your wishes happen this Christmas’ loan campaign. Tinnie was presented with her cash prize of …

  • In the Diaspora

    By Staff | Monday, January 5, 2009 | 0 Comments


    Afro-Guyanese and Rice
    By Wazir Mohammed
    Wazir Mohamed spent the formative years of his life as a community and political worker, and is engaged in academic research to find answers to Guyana’s seemingly intractable ethnic dilemma.
    This is …

  • Flooding the Mahaica Creek

    By Staff | Monday, January 5, 2009 | 7 Comments


    In whole page advertisements last week, the government has sought to defend its performance in relation to the floods that have rolled up and down the coast since the start of December. It has provided …

  • Central Asia’s Waking Giant

    By Staff | Monday, January 5, 2009 | 0 Comments


    by Marcel de Haas (Marcel de Haas is a Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael)

    THE HAGUE – The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) brings together almost half the world’s population, several members …

  • Boxing’s oddities and firsts

    By Staff | Monday, January 5, 2009 | 0 Comments


    Boxing’s oddities and firsts

    By Eion Jardine
    The sport of boxing is filled with fascinating and dramatic human interest stories that reveal the essence of what boxing is all about character, endurance, strength, speed and above all, brains.
    Knucka Han Josie
    It …

  • Venezuelan trio fined for illegal entry

    By Staff | Monday, January 5, 2009 | 4 Comments


    Three Venezuelans who had entered Guyana illegally were ordered to pay a fine of $30, 000 each when they appeared on Tuesday before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
    Alejandio Britto, Adelso …

  • Lions Club Christmas party

    By Staff | Monday, January 5, 2009 | 0 Comments


    Lions Club Christmas party

    The Lions Club of Central Demerara recently held its annual Christmas party for children from East Bank Demerara communities. In a press release the Club said “Four hundred tickets were distributed to schools from Eccles …

  • Furniture drugs probe

    By Staff | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | 59 Comments


    Nymrod Singh nabbed in Bartica

    Nymrod Singh wanted by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) for questioning in relation to the discovery in Miami of cocaine in furniture shipped from Guyana was held by the police yesterday …

  • Man murdered; body placed in suitcase

    By Staff | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | 37 Comments


    A 49-year-old man was chopped to death and placed in a suitcase after an argument ensued between him and the man he was drinking with.
    Roger Alli called ‘Bobby’ of Coghlan Dam, Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara …

  • Mahaicony rice lands, homes inundated

    By Staff | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | 17 Comments


    Mahaicony rice lands, homes inundated

    The water level in the Mahaicony Creek has continued to rise and residents have finally lost all hope of saving their rice and cash crops while livestock farmers are running out of dry land for …