The Guyana Prize for Literature Management Committee has said that judging is progressing for the two prizes scheduled to be awarded this year and the shortlisted candidates would be announced in late July.
Following a firsthand look at what obtains at the Public Service Training Centre and courses offered, President David Granger yesterday said that works will commence soon for the much needed upgrade.
The Caricom Secretariat has extended condolences to the Government and people of Guyana following the mining disaster in Konawaruk, Region Eight on Sunday that claimed the lives of at least 10 miners.
The Government of Mexico has extended congratulations to the Eighth President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, David Granger on his recent success at the May 11 polls and pledges continued friendship with the nation.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Talks between the United States and Cuba will go into a second day today as the sides try to reach agreement on reopening embassies shut for more than half a century, the crucial next step in their historic detente.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters tightened their grip on the historic Syrian city of Palmyra yesterday and overran Iraqi government defences east of Ramadi, the provincial capital that they seized five days earlier.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s President Otto Perez announced a major cabinet reshuffle yesterday, firing several ministers after corruption scandals battered his government, fueling calls for him to step down.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean President Michelle Bachelet acknowledged her government had endured a difficult few months and sought in her annual State of the Union address yesterday to regain the political initiative by outlining the details of a raft of new bills.
(Reuters) – A grand jury has brought charges against six Baltimore police officers in the death of a black man who suffered fatal neck injuries while in police custody, a case that touched off angry protests and a day of looting and arson in the Maryland city.
NGOZI, Burundi, (Reuters) – In the Burundian president’s rural stronghold, his party’s youth wing dismisses the fears of those who have fled the east African nation that it is gathering arms and sharpening knives for a new bout of ethnic bloodletting.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Fabio Lobo, son of former Honduras president Porfirio Lobo, was arrested in an anti-drug operation in Haiti, with the help of the U.S.
DALLAS, (Reuters) – Boy Scouts of America President Robert Gates said yesterday the group’s ban on adult gay leaders needs to end, taking a step toward dismantling a policy that has caused deep rifts in the 105-year-old organization.
The opposition PPP today decried the shifting by the APNU+AFC government of independence celebrations on May 26 from the National Park to the Independence Arch on Brickdam.
(Trinidad Express) “I did my job and I am quite satisfied. I
A decades-long search for hydrocarbons offshore Guyana has finally yielded success with Exxon Mobil Corporation yesterday reporting a “significant oil discovery”.
Sixteen APNU+AFC government ministers were sworn in yesterday at the Ministry of the Presidency and President David Granger reminded them that they are all one team focused on ensuring Guyana becomes less divided.
Three more bodies were pulled yesterday from the mine that collapsed on Sunday at Konawaruk, Region Eight bringing the confirmed death toll to ten with the search still on for another person.
APNU+AFC candidate Moses Nagamootoo was yesterday sworn in as Prime Minister and first Vice-President of Guyana by newly-appointed Presi-dent David Granger and vowed to bring about constitutional reform.
Announcing that his administration would soon set up what he called a Public Service Staff College to ensure that public servants can “read, spell and count,” President David Granger yesterday warned that they would be promoted based only on merit and not because of who they might be related to or affiliated with.
There is some amount of uncertainty surrounding the continuation of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (COI) and according to newly-appointed APNU+AFC Attorney General Basil Williams he has to meet with the president to discuss the issue.
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