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Even if talks resume with the Alliance for Change (AFC), Aubrey Norton will be the presidential candidate of a Coalition of APNU, which has the PNC as the main party. This is according to PNC Central Executive Committee member Ganesh Mahipaul, who was the lead speaker at a press conference Friday. “I am maintaining that
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A 25-year-old security guard was on Friday charged with the murder of 29-year-old Rondell Clarke, who was shot and killed on June 8. Messiah Mussenden of Buxton/Friendship, East Coast Demerara, was arraigned before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court where he was read the murder charge, which states that he fatally shot Clarke,
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Dr. Karen Pilgrim is the new Chairperson of the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organisation (RADO), becoming the first female Chair in the organisation’s history. Dr. Pilgrim, the current Member Country Representative for Guyana, was elected unopposed during the recent Annual General Meeting held in Barbados. The retired veterinarian and a former Vice-President of the Guyana Olympic
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A hard-fought 14-18 loss to Paraguay knocked Guyana out of the Under-23 3×3 tournament at the quarter-final stage in Asunción on Friday. The tournament served as the culmination of Guyana’s week-long 3×3 High Performance Training Programme in Paraguay, held in preparation for this year’s Junior Pan Am Games. Guyana’s squad featured US-based Anish Ramlall, alongside
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Karran Sukhan, the man accused of abusing his partner, has been arrested by Police ranks and is at the New Amsterdam Police Station, Region Six (East Berbice- Corentyne). Police Headquarters shared this information in an update on Friday. It was noted that Sukhan was arrested in Regional Police Division #5, taken to Division #6, and
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(BBC) The British man who was the sole survivor of Thursday’s Air India plane crash said he managed to escape the wreckage through an opening in the fuselage. “I managed to unbuckle myself, used my leg to push through that opening, and crawled out,” Vishwashkumar Ramesh told Indian state media DD News. Mr Ramesh, 40, was
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(Reuters) – Israel launched large-scale strikes against Iran on Friday, saying it had attacked nuclear facilities and missile factories and killed a swathe of military commanders in what could be a prolonged operation to prevent Tehran from building an atomic weapon. U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that Iran had brought the attack on itself by
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See below the full release from the Guyana Elections Commission:  The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has approved the use of a modified version of the Nomination Form that is statutorily required to be submitted along with the Lists of Candidates by Political Parties to contest General and Regional Elections. The modified version of the Form
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Rid-O-Pes Inc. has committed its support for the Demerara Cricket Board’s upcoming fund-raising T10 Cup at the LBI Ground, East Coast Demerara. Weather permitting, the one-day tournament will be held on July 6. Rid-O-Pes Inc, a second-generation Guyanese-owned pest control company, has been in business for over 40 years. The family-operated establishment, located at Sixth
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For a little while in Washington Freedom‘s chase against San Francisco Unicorns in the MLC 2025 opener, it looked like we might be in for something special. As it turned out, all the special stuff was already done in the first half by Finn Allen, whose record-breaking 51-ball 151 powered Unicorns to 269-5, and despite a promising start, scoreboard pressure told on
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