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The government doesn’t have jobs to give out and as such is moving to encourage entrepreneurship, where people create job opportunities for themselves, President David Granger said on “The Public Interest” last Friday.

The Ministry of Education today said that the May 26 float parade will require the relocation of students from seven city schools who are sitting the CSEC and CAPE examinations that day.

Bartica was yesterday officially declared a capital town and President David Granger promised that all government buildings in the municipality will be powered by renewable energy by the end of his current term in office.

Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj   Success, East Coast Demerara, has a population of just about 2,000 people, many of whom work at the La Bonne Intention Estate will soon be shifted to the Enmore Estate.

An after-tax profit of just over $2 billion was achieved by the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) for the year ended December 31, 2015, slightly lower than in the previous year.

The distribution of food supplies to some residents in the Rupununi has begun as several far off communities are now faced with food shortages following the end of what was described as the worst droughts to hit the region since 1988.

The Water Street vendors who were given 24 hours to move from the pavement in front of the former Guyana Stores Limited bond are pleading with the City Council to give them an adequate amount of time to move as they have nowhere to go.

Guyana will put in a bid for a cut of the grant financing for renewable energy projects being made available by the United States but President David Granger says it will be insufficient for the government’s plans to reduce national dependence on fossil fuels.

A Friendship Secondary School student is currently battling for his life at a city hospital after he was struck down by a motorcycle just before midday on Friday in the vicinity of his school.

Most mothers will be happy to be pampered and showered with gifts today but not Rita, of Bush Lot Village, West Coast Berbice.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country will not use nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is infringed on by others with nuclear arms and it is willing to normalize ties with states that had been hostile towards it, state media reported today.

In a written submission to the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the education system, several teachers of the Bishops’ High School are advocating for teachers to be paid to mark those School Based Assessments (SBAs) which are part of the requirement for the external examinations conducted by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC).

Digicel yesterday launched its 4G network at Bartica as that community was officially declared a town, offering a mobile experience on par with developed countries around the world.

GREGOIRE LAKE, ALBERTA (Reuters) – A raging Canadian wildfire grew explosively yesterday as hot, dry winds pushed the blaze across the energy heartland of Alberta and smoke forced the shutdown of a major oil sands project.

LONDON (Reuters) – A British vote to leave the European Union next month could make the country more vulnerable to militant attacks and cause instability across the continent, two former senior British intelligence officials said.

As conflicting information circulates about the location of the outstanding US$5 million for the sale of government shares in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT), President David Granger is adamant that former president Donald Ramotar is the one to provide answers.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said in a commencement speech yesterday that US race relations have improved over the last three decades, but that significant work still needs to be done.

President David Granger on Friday expressed satisfaction with Minister of State Joseph Harmon’s conduct in China and said that their longstanding friendship did not cloud his views on the matter.

According to the report of the Forensic Audit of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), over half of the claims records requested for analysis could not be produced.

(Trinidad Guardian) The owner of the Claxton Bay bar where a teen bandit was beaten so badly by his “victims” that he never regained consciousess after he was hospitalised feels no joy he is dead.