CJ was duty bound to determine whether continued participation by Mingo would undermine public confidence in the process
A judicial review challenge to Mingo’s manipulated tabulation and fraudulent declaration was heard by Chief Justice, Roxane George-Wiltshire who, after ruling that the High Court had jurisdiction to hear the case upon the basis of its supervisory powers over a public body exercising public
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Long-Distance Love During Covid-19 Doesn’t Work
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Flu vaccine available
Influenza vaccines are now available in Guyana as international health authorities continue to urge that vaccinations for the seasonal malady continue during the current COVID-19
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Sobhraj Foundation donates 1,000 COVID-19 hampers
One thousand hampers have been donated to several organisations and communities in Guyana by the Jay and Silvia Sobhraj Foundation in an effort to provide relief to persons affected by the coronavirus disease
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
The psychology of the Guyanese man and COVID-19
There has been uproar in our society about why, despite there being an information overload on the novel coronavirus, that most men still seem to be overlooking safety precautions by not wearing masks, not practicing social distancing and “liming” when they should be at
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Tracy Khan hosted virtual show gains momentum
A virtual show launched five weeks ago, ‘One on One with Tracy Khan’, takes full advantage of the new normal wrought by closures resulting from the novel
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Two new COVID-19 cases recorded
Two new COVID-19 cases recorded -Ministry concerned over spread in regions One and Seven
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Trinidad nationals stuck in Canada again beg to come home
I tell them Trinidad owns an airline and the Government can very easily fly us home without opening borders,” Bayne said
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Chief Medical Officer warns of ‘almost runaway’ COVID-19 situation
Up to yesterday, no new case of COVID-19 was recorded in Guyana, with only one new test conducted between May 26 and 27 and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Shamdeo Persaud has warned of an “almost runaway” situation
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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Over 300 stranded Guyanese back home after two more repatriation flights
Two repatriation flights from Trinidad and Barbados yesterday brought home over 300 Guyanese nationals who were stranded abroad after borders were closed by governments to curb travel during the still-ongoing COVID-19
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Let’s gather around the table
The past couple of weeks have been especially
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Church and civil leaders need to take a stand
There were many messages embedded in his epistle, and all of which if adhered to in this society, could make so much of
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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What awaits sports?
The government of Guyana is about to
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
One year too long - PM laments tedious delays in procurement practices
Holness was speaking on Thursday at the commissioning of a $33-million, 110-ft-long bridge spanning the Wag Water River and which links Airy Castle, Bowden Hill, and Stony Hill in the St Andrew West Rural constituency represented by Juliet
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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Dr Hinds is attempting to create an elections narrative that has no empirical basis
Dr. Hinds’ letter covered three broad themes and, at this time, I am limiting my response to the narrative he seeks to establish with respect to the credibility of the March 2, 2020
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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Guyanese Fr John Persaud appointed Catholic Bishop of Mandeville
Father (Fr) John Persaud from Guyana, has been appointed Bishop of the Catholic Church in
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
GECOM must act only on `valid’ votes cast – APNU+AFC
The governing APNU+AFC coalition today insisted that GECOM must act only on “valid” votes cast at the March 2nd general elections even though there is no basis for discarding votes which were counted on the night of the polls and during an exhaustive
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Kaie Kellough’s Magnetic Equator: An Appreciation in Guyanese-Diasporic-Quarantine
The announcement Tuesday morning (May 19th) that Kaie Kellough had won Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize—one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world—for his mesmerizing poetry collection, Magnetic Equator —marks an historical moment in the literary histories of diasporic Guyanese and
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Nicholas E. Brathwaite
Nicholas E. Brathwaite is cofounder and partner of Riverwood Capital, a global, growth equity, investment firm with over $2 billion in assets under management. Riverwood Capital invests in technology and technology services industries across a variety of verticals and
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COVID-19 patients fear poor conditions at Diamond isolation unit delaying recovery
Forced to endure cramped quarters, shortages in hygiene products and the repeated disruption of their water supply, some patients housed at the government-run COVID-19 isolation unit at Diamond fear that the poor conditions are inhibiting their speedy
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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‘The truth hurts,’ Mottley stands by position on Guyana’s elections
The outgoing chair of CARICOM, Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley yesterday firmly stood by her position in relation to Guyana’s protracted elections, saying to her detractors here that “The truth
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Non credible Region Four vote count compromised integrity of March 2 polls, EU observers say
In their final report on the March 2nd polls, the European Union Election Observer Mission (EU EOM) has said that the integrity of the entire electoral process was “seriously compromised” by vote count in Region Four and has cited the senior Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) officials for acting
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
PPP 'pleased' with GECOM decision | New York Carib News
GEORGETOWN – The main opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Tuesday night said that it wants a “speedy transition to a democratically elected government” as it awaits the official results of the disputed March 2 regional and general
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Source: The New York Carib News
Jim Jones
Jim Jones , byname of James Warren Jones (born May 13, 1931, Crete, near Lynn, Indiana, U.S.—died November 18, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana), American cult leader who promised his followers a utopia in the jungles of South America after proclaiming himself messiah of the Peoples Temple, a San
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UK gives US$3.8m for COVID-19 response in Caribbean
THE United Kingdom has agreed to contribute three million pounds (US$3.8m) to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to help eight countries of the Caribbean – Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines – contain the spread of
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Whose lives matter in Guyana?
Gaping holes have not only been placed in the bodies of men and women in this country, but there are gaping holes where the integrity and patriotism of many of our citizens should
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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Exxon oil output falls as compressor problems continue
Production at Exxon-Mobil’s Liza-1 project in the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana, has plummeted from 80,000 barrels per day (bpd) to now between 25,000 and 30,000 bpd as compressor problems continue and the company would not increase flaring above about 15 million cubic feet of natural gas per
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
We are clearly not ready to roll out the Grade Six examination
With the way now cleared for a new administration, I write to support and reiterate the call made in a letter by Omchand Madhu titled `Incoming Minister of Education should postpone National Grade Six Assessment’ that appeared in our
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
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All of Guyana’s Grade Six children must be treated in an equitable manner
It is extremely alarming that the Ministry of Education has failed to identify the measures which its officials intend to implement to protect the teachers and students of Regions 1, 2,7, 8 and
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Parker, Maurice S. (1949- )
Ambassador Maurice S. Parker is a career Senior Foreign Service Officer with the rank of Minister-Counselor at the U.S. Department of State.  On April 30, 2007 Parker was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Swaziland.  After U.S. Senate confirmation, Parker
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