Leader of Change Guyana (CG), Robert Badal on Tuesday bluntly denied entering Guyana’s electoral race because he did not get 50 percent of concessions that he was “entitled to” from the government for the construction of the Pegasus Suites and ...
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Tuesday decided that some people, who registered last year, could be among the more than 20,000 who could be removed from the voters’ list if they do not uplift their national identification cards. Elections ...
Workers at the Demerara Harbour Bridge were Tuesday night working feverishly to remove several utility poles that fell from a truck, restricting two-way traffic to a single lane, General Manager of the bridge, Rolston Adams said. He said efforts were ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Vinette K. Pryce The controversy surrounding whether or not the image of liberationist Harriet Tubman should grace the $20 bill would be over if Hollywood writer/director Kasi Lemmons has anything to do with convincing ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Terri Schlichenmeyer “What God is Honored Here?” edited by Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang c.2019, University of Minnesota Press $19.95 / higher in Canada 274 pages You’re doing okay. Shaky, most days, and ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King The Brooklyn-based umbrella Vincentian group in the United States, Council of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Organizations, U.S.A., Inc. (COSAGO), on Sunday bestowed honors on prominent cultural figure Verna Arthur and ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King Jamaican Diaspora leaders in the United States’ northeastern region have called on Jamaica’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ensure that elected members of the Global Jamaica Diaspora Council are representatives of ...
The recently established Unicon Guyana Inc. (UGI), which includes a well-established Ghanaian company, has promised that the workers it will hire, train and place aboard oil rigs will receive equal pay with their foreign counterparts, but trade unions must come ...
Amazonia Expert Services (AES), a newly-formed company, has secured a lease of 700 acres of land at the closed Wales Sugar Estate, West Bank Demerara to get into the coconut industry The major shareholders of AES, which is made up ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King The United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC) predicts that exports from the region will fall 2.0 percent in 2019 “due to the complex international context.” “The ...