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Earth Today | New water project adopts lessons learnt
THE NEW CReW project is to take lessons learnt from the last effort, while building on its gains, in pursuit of better wastewater management in the
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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Holding one’s breath for an expeditious, transparent and credible recount of the votes (Part VI)
As this process concludes, it is important for all stakeholders to uphold the integrity of the process and peacefully accept the wishes of the Guyanese
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Jones, John Melvin (1944- )
John Melvin Jones was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Guyana in 2008.  Nominated by President George W. Bush on June 30, 2008, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and arrived in Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, on October 8 of that year.  Due to health issues, the result of injuries sustained while
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Source: Black Past
UG says not demanding tuition from students at this time
The Transitional Management Committee (TMC) of the University of Guyana today said that UG is not demanding tuition fees from students at this
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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Housing authority extends land discount promotion
In keeping with its efforts to make housing affordable for Guyanese, the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) has extended its Republic Jubilee land discount promotion until June
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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It is hard to argue PNC rigging is all history when history is repeating itself at this very moment.
The reports of the 303 Committee and a memorandum by Thomas H. Karamessines, Deputy CIA Director entitled “Plans of Guyana Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, Leader of the People’s National Congress (PNC), to Rig the Elections Scheduled for Late 1968 or Early 1969” might be a good starting point for
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Rubis in COVID-19 donation to CDC, GPHC
Joining the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Rubis Guyana Inc is  providing transportation for frontline workers and has also contributed more than $2M as part of its several initiatives aimed at providing relief to persons in need and to ongoing efforts of the Civil Defence Commission
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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Guyana’s Infant Oil & Gas Sector: Doomsday options - tariffs on oil, NOPEC Bill and invoking the nuclear option after a US/Saudi oil war!
The incisive, intense, and increasingly incendiary geo-political, economic, and strategic debate concerning the Saudi Arabia/ US struggle for crude oil market share is basically unacknowledged in the local print and social
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
He who asserts must prove
He who asserts must prove -GECOM Chair says about claims being raised at recount
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Guyanese cricketers stranded in TT expected to return
With over 300 confirmed Guyanese stranded overseas during the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, four cricketers stranded in Trinidad and Tobago are expected to be reunited with their families at
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Live: President Granger reiterates he will accept recount result
President David Granger says his government will accept the declaration of the current recount of the March 2 General and Regional
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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Shortlist of firms to market oil to be ready by June 25 – DoE
The Department of Energy (DoE) yesterday notified  the Applicants who submitted Expressions of Interest on April 26, 2020, for the “Provision of Marketing Services for Guyana’s Oil Entitlement from the Lisa Destiny FPSO Vessel”, that the preparation of the Shortlist of Firms to be invited to submit
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
COVID-19 causes major disruption to large-scale mining
Even with favourable markets, large scale mining of minerals here has suffered major setbacks due mainly to health restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and this has left hundreds without
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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Musician Derry Etkins dies
Guyanese musician Derry Etkins has died during recovery from a minor
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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Youth urge safe celebrations for COVID-tinged independence
With the COVID-19 outbreak cancelling traditional Independence Day activities, some Guyanese youth have suggestions for celebrating the day
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
COVID-19 education sector threats ask searching questions of local IT sector - Starr Computers boss
The nature and impact of the coronavirus on developing countries like Guyana brings into sharp focus the importance of accelerating the growth of the information technology sector in order to better position it to address priority concerns when these arise, Starr Computers Chief Executive
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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We have an opportunity to re-imagine and improve Grade Six assessment
Recent revelations regarding the Ministry of Education’s plan to stage the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) in about two months, have caused concern among parents and
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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It is the hope of Guyanese that GECOM will choose well
Justice of Appeal Claudette Singh, suggesting a just, legal and non-partisan standard of proof that must be provided by any party that is asserting discrepancies and anomalies in the General and Regional Elections (G&RE) and/or the National Recount
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Baird, Harry (1931-2005)
The physical presence that black British actor Harry Baird brought to the movie screen was largely a consequence of the United Kingdom going through the birthing pain of racism during the 1950s and 1960s.  Born in Guyana, this premier black actor was no Paul Robeson, but Harry Baird carried with
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Source: Black Past
The Baptist War (1831-1832)
The Baptist War, also known as the Christmas Rebellion, was an eleven-day rebellion that mobilized as many as sixty thousand of Jamaica’s three hundred thousand slaves in 1831–1832. It was considered the largest slave rebellion in the British Caribbean. The name Christmas Rebellion came from the
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ExxonMobil says working ‘fervently’ to fix compressor issues
Addressing concerns about its volume of natural gas flared to date, ExxonMobil yesterday assured that it was working fervently to fix problems with its compressor equipment offshore and said that the lessons learned will be applied to its next Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel, as
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
From GWI’s standpoint there is no water problem at Diamond Isolation Facility
The Guyana Water Incorporated wishes to respond to reports of “Repeated disruption of …water supply” at the Diamond Isolation Unit, as is being reported by the Stabroek News in a May 17 article entitled “COVID-19 patients fear poor conditions at Diamond Isolation Unit delaying recovery” and a May
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
A focal point for malaria should be added to the National COVID-19 task force
A suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19 should also receive a malaria test in areas where malaria is
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
International environment group calls on Exxon to cease gas flaring
As ExxonMobil yesterday continued to play up its Guyana investments at its virtual Annual Meeting of shareholders, global environmental and human rights organisation, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) called on the company to heed environmental pollution warnings and immediately
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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Task force may have acted hastily in denying request for Region Nine lockdown
She referred to Prof. Owen Gross’ book, Laws in Times of Crisis, 2006, in which he suggested that “crises (pandemics, national security threats, citizen insecurity, natural disasters etc.); produce an expansion of governmental powers and the concentration of powers in the hands of the
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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Guyana’s ‘associated gas’ has no market value
The IMF, the World Bank, the IADB, the European Investment Bank, leading economists (e.g. former World Bank Chief Economists Lord Stern and Joseph Stiglitz,), the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, and a host of other financial and industry experts can all give you excellent
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Eddy Grant says it’s time to demand reparations
Guyanese singing star, Eddy Grant, has added his voice to the ongoing protests over the killing of an African-American man by a cop in the United States but says that while black lives have always mattered, it has only become fashionable because white people can now hang their own personal grouses
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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CARICOM, the Caribbean Community Organization
Many countries located in the Caribbean Sea are members of the Caribbean Community, or CARICOM, an organization founded in 1973 to make these several small countries more cooperative, economically competitive, and influential in global politics. Headquartered in Georgetown, Guyana, CARICOM has
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Dire conditions at the Diamond Hospital isolation facility
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Karen Gordon-Boyle in the COVID-19 Daily Update of May 14 described the conditions at the quarantine and isolation
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
No new COVID cases after latest tests
No new COVID cases after latest tests
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