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Guyanese athletes Jelicia Wright, Cleveland Thomas and Timothy Smith, along with their coach Jonathan Fagundes, have arrived in Jamaica for this weekend’s CARICOM 10K Road Race in Montego Bay. The team, accompanied by James Cole, General Secretary of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), paid a courtesy visit to the National Sports Commission (NSC) before
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Australia’s top-order batting issues continued as they were bowled out for 286 by West Indies on day one of the second Test in Grenada. After electing to bat, Australia were reduced to 110-5, with the returning Steve Smith dismissed for three by Alzarri Joseph, who took 4-61. Half-centuries from Beau Webster and Alex Carey in
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Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said the Government of Guyana did not instruct a United States lobby firm to raise concerns about businessman Azruddin Mohamed with US officials. Instead, he clarified that the firm was hired to help fight Venezuela’s threats and aggressions. “We don’t tell the lobbyists what to do on a
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Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo highlighted that the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) government hired about 3,000 teachers since taking office in 2020, resulting in a teaching workforce of about 12,000 strong. With that many teachers in the public sector, Jagdeo posited that Guyanese children can get more personalised attention from teachers as the student-to-teacher
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General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Civic, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday dismissed rumours that Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips will not return as the party’s Prime Ministerial candidate. “Sherod Duncan has been spreading all of these rumours… that we are replacing Mark Phillips with (Juan) Edghill,” Jagdeo said at his weekly press conference. Over
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Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday confirmed that no new taxes were introduced since the People’s Progressive Party Civic took office in 2020. Jagdeo is the PPP’s General Secretary. He spoke at a party press conference on Thursday. During that engagement, Jagdeo spoke of the measures introduced by the government since 2020 to help
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Althia King, the young woman selected by A New and United Guyana (ANUG) to occupy its seat in the National Assembly during the last Parliament, has resigned from the party. King made the announcement in a Facebook post on Wednesday evening. “As of July 1st, I officially resigned from A New and United Guyana (ANUG),”
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Trinidad and Tobago is currently leading the CARICOM Classic Chess Team Tournament after four rounds. The tournament is being held at the Pegasus Suites and Corporate Centre in Georgetown, Guyana. The Guyana Chess Federation, in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat, is hosting this second installment of the CARICOM Classic from July 1-6. Ten teams from
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[Antigua Newsroom] – A 24-year-old man has been remanded to prison in Antigua and Barbuda in connection with the death of a young woman from Guyana. Victor Ince of Lightfoot West appeared before Magistrate Ngaio Emanuel on Wednesday to answer charges of unlawful confinement and killing in the death of 19-year-old Joyleen Abraham. The incident
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The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination, commonly referred to as SASOD, continues to advocate for an amendment of the 1997 Prevention of Discrimination Act to explicitly protect queer persons from workplace discrimination. “It’s really important that we have some form of protection from discrimination for LGBTQIA people. “This is one of the few pieces of
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