July 3rd, 2009
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GUYOIL customers complain of shabby treatment

Proprietor of the Rose Gas Station at Mackenzie, Linden is calling on the relevant authority to inve...
February 24th, 2009  1 Comments1

Wismar residents to protest VAT-on-electricity proposal

The membership of the Linden Utility Services Co-operative Society Ltd (LUSCSL) and residents of Wis...
February 16th, 2009  0 Comments0

Fire razes Enmore house, six homeless

Fire believed to be of electrical origin completely destroyed a two-flat house at 119 Hope West, Enm...
February 12th, 2009  0 Comments0

Brickdam lockups, police stations for renovation

The renovation of the Brickdam lockups is among the projects that will benefit from $13.6 billion bu...
February 10th, 2009  0 Comments0

GPL to ease off diesel generation this year

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) aims to reduce its dependence on diesel generation from 32% to 5% b...
February 10th, 2009  0 Comments0

$7B green-lit for roads and bridges

Over $7 billion has been allocated in this year's national budget for roads and bridges with $1.8 bi...
February 10th, 2009  0 Comments0

Editorial

Addicted to drug trafficking

Is this country addicted to drugs and drug trafficking? Hardly a week passes without fresh revelatio...
January 13th, 2009  0 Comments0

Child protection

The long overdue bill to establish a Childcare and Protection Agency was passed in the National Asse...
January 11th, 2009  0 Comments0

The Government needs to bend

It is a new year, and people have made numerous wishes, all seeking to live better than they did las...
January 3rd, 2009  0 Comments0

What a waste!

These are troubled times. Environmentalists and scientists around the world have for at least the pa...
January 3rd, 2009  0 Comments0

Stop the carnage

Most of those who initiate and perpetuate war do so based on the premise that they are championing a...
January 3rd, 2009  0 Comments0

A year to remember

The most memorable images of crime in 2008 were the massacres in Lusignan, Bartica and Lindo Creek w...
December 30th, 2008  0 Comments0

Letters

Surprised at the PNCR leaders' position on Commissioner Henry Greene

Dear Editor, I left politics three years ago and I am not associated with, or member of any politic...
January 11th, 2009  0 Comments0

Monthly rental for GT&T customers in Essequibo should be waived

Dear Editor, Until such time as GT&T can provide an efficient landline service to customers in Regi...
January 8th, 2009  0 Comments0

Government commended for better equipping Community Policing Groups

I wish to commend President Bharrat Jagdeo and his government for taking the initiative to better eq...
January 3rd, 2009  0 Comments0

Poor telephone service in Region 2

UNTIL such time as GT&T can provide an efficient land line service to customers in Region #2 which s...
January 3rd, 2009  0 Comments0

The Berbice River Bridge is a remarkable achievement

Dear Editor, The commissioning of the long awaited and much needed Berbice River Bridge is a remark...
December 30th, 2008  0 Comments0

The Berbice River Bridge is a project Guyanese can be proud of, but has the road been properly constructed?

Dear Editor, The Berbice River Bridge was opened on December, 23, 2008, and it is indeed a project ...
December 30th, 2008  0 Comments0

Business & Economic

Businessman approached to buy Magistrate's stolen laptop

The probe into last Monday morning's robbery committed at the Non Pareil home of Magistrate Nigel Ha...
April 22nd, 2009  0 Comments0

NBS politically hijacked, bridge bonds purchase illegal Concerned' Members

Despite a less than desired turnout, the Committee of Concerned NBS Members yesterday ventilated the...
April 22nd, 2009  0 Comments0

Mahaica farmers get seeds, chemicals and other assistance

The Ministry of Agriculture distributed seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and other items to hundreds o...
February 24th, 2009  0 Comments0

Pegasus Hotel still on the market - Luncheon

The Pegasus Hotel has not been sold, though a local businessman had been making enquiries, Head of t...
February 24th, 2009  0 Comments0

Trotman: Budget failed to tackle poverty, joblessness

Leader of the Alliance For Change, Raphael Trotman has described this year's budget as "being a colo...
February 23rd, 2009  0 Comments0

Wismar residents end protest as VAT-on-power proposal rescinded

A second day of protest action by members of the Linden Utility Services Co-op Society Limited (LUSC...
February 20th, 2009  0 Comments0

Crime & Law

Homosexual, teen lover to face buggery charges

The Director of Public Prosecutions has recommended that a homosexual male and 15-year-old boy be ch...
April 22nd, 2009  1 Comments1

Go after drug lords, launderers also

Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, President Bharrat Jagdeo, yesterday called on army officers ...
February 20th, 2009  0 Comments0

Teen on drug charge refused bail

The US-based Guyanese juvenile, who was held at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, all...
February 20th, 2009  0 Comments0

Police don't believe Julius Chung killed himself

Police do not believe that 44-year-old Julius Chung, who died in his former lover's home on Wednesda...
February 20th, 2009  0 Comments0

Port Kaituma murder suspect surrenders

The suspect in the murder of Deborah Allen of Port Kaituma, North West District and the wounding of ...
February 20th, 2009  0 Comments0

Man takes own life after vicious attack on son's mother

A man viciously stabbed the mother of his child and believing that she was dead, apparently turned t...
February 19th, 2009  1 Comments1

Sports

Berbice, Georgetown & Linden FA's pursuing inter-club competition

President of the Berbice Football Association (BFA) O'Jeer in a recent interview with Kaieteur Sport...
February 11th, 2009  0 Comments0

Johnson throwing his support behind Singh

Now that incumbent Chetram Singh has publicly announced that he is seeking re-election as President ...
January 7th, 2009  0 Comments0

WICB confirms own funding of 2009 first-class season

ST JOHNS, Antigua (CMC) The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) confirmed yesterday it will shoulder fu...
December 29th, 2008  0 Comments0

Ryder, McCullum help Kiwis level Twenty20 series

HAMILTON, New Zealand (CMC) Propelled by robust half-centuries from Jesse Ryder and Brendon McCullum...
December 29th, 2008  0 Comments0

Keith Foster is new president of BCBC

KEITH Foster became the new Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC) president when the board held it...
December 29th, 2008  0 Comments0

Gayle belts 197 as second test ends in draw

THEY obviously would not let on but the West Indies were relieved, rather than just content, to draw...
December 24th, 2008  0 Comments0

Gov't & Politics

AFC election petition court file found

The Alliance for Change election petition court file which had gone missing in the High Court has re...
February 24th, 2009  0 Comments0

Murray debunks out-of-PNCR report

PNCR-1G MP Winston Murray yesterday denounced a report on the state-run NCN 6 O' Clock News that sug...
February 20th, 2009  0 Comments0

PNCR outreach in Region One told about major difficulties

PNCR Leader Robert Corbin last weekend led a team to Region One as part of the party's outreach prog...
February 12th, 2009  0 Comments0

PNCR live broadcast motion on parliamentary sittings defeated

THE motion by the main Opposition party - the People's National Congress Reform (PNCR) calling for t...
January 16th, 2009  0 Comments0

Oversized' gov't here

Guyana's ranking has fallen in a worldwide survey of economic freedoms that lists "oversized governm...
January 14th, 2009  0 Comments0

Green bracing for fight against move to unseat him as mayor

Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green is bracing for a fight against a move for the holding of mayoral vot...
January 11th, 2009  0 Comments0

Health & Life Style

First ever micro-vascular free tissue transfer surgery done at Georgetown hospital

The first ever Micro-vascular Free Tissue Transfer in Guyana was done on a 29-year-old man whose onl...
February 10th, 2009  0 Comments0

New access arrangements at Georgetown Hospital

Members of the public who have to access the services in the Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Centre B...
February 9th, 2009  0 Comments0

Two Lepto' deaths, 12 confirmed cases for 2009

Chief Medical Officer says: Leptospirosis is a potentially serious bacterial illness that can affec...
January 15th, 2009  0 Comments0

Red Cross aid reaching flood-hit East Coast

With the heavy rains and floodwaters, communities on the East Coast Demerara have found themselves i...
January 14th, 2009  0 Comments0

Private hospitals must up blood screening capacity by March - Ramsammy

Private hospitals have been given a March deadline for increasing their blood screening capacity or ...
January 11th, 2009  0 Comments0

Woman struck by mystery illness

Leena Ramrattan likes to watch cartoons, and she whimpers if you switch the television off. She wear...
January 11th, 2009  0 Comments0

Entertainment

Mash float parade lacklustre

It was loud and hot; there were crowds but the few bands that stood out were unable to save this yea...
February 24th, 2009  0 Comments0

Mash Jump Off Concert cancelled

THE Kashif and Shanghai Organisation has announced that the Mash Jump Off entertainment concert orig...
February 17th, 2009  0 Comments0

How Mashramani came about

The Jaycees of Linden had, since Guyana became independent in 1966, been organizing an Independence ...
February 17th, 2009  0 Comments0

Shelly G is the 2009 Carib Soca monarch

Saucy temptress Shellon Shelly G' Garraway captured this year's Carib Soca Monarch crown, proving ...
February 17th, 2009  0 Comments0

Professor delivers winning calypso lecture

On a night when local calypso was mostly lacklustre, the Professor's gripping, witty lecture on poli...
February 16th, 2009  0 Comments0

Digicel gives Mash Secretariat $1.5M for calypso

Digicel recently donated $1.5M to the Mash Secretariat to boost the 2009 calypso competition. Accor...
February 13th, 2009  0 Comments0