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Thursday, May 16, 2024

EYEWITNESS: Getting on…

…in years The PNC’s about to turn 60 and under the fig leaf of its APNU cover, it’s busy painting the towns (and country!) green....

The Nanda Gopaul Move

By The Piper Few people in Guyana’s post-war history have had a more distinguished and yes, productive public life than Dr. Nanda Kishore Gopaul. N.K....

Eyewitness: Hello 2022…same ole, same ole?

The new year seems to’ve begun pretty much in the same vein that brought the old year to a close. But who’s surprised? Hope...

Eyewitness: It’s all about…the economy, budday!

Your Eyewitness hears a lot of complaints from the Opposition benches about the economy “going to the dogs”. One specific complaint is the “lack...

EYEWITNESS: Interventions…

…working in suicides? There was a statement just made by a local PAHO rep that the suicide rate that put us on top of the...

EYEWITNESS: Sleeping…

…or bought out? Suddenly, Moses Nagamootoo thinks the time is ripe for “constitutional reform”!! Really?? With constitutional reform the main plank of the AFC for...

Eyewitness: Planning…for a roiled climate

Over in Europe, they’re having a “long, hot summer” in more ways than one. The phrase was used in 1960s America, when the ghettoes...

Eyewitness: Preparing…

…for development There’s a lot of folks from the Opposition APNU/AFC benches wringing their hands about “being left behind”. Well, we’re in a new globalised...

Eyewitness: Attacking the lion

…but sparing the wolf Your Eyewitness has noticed that the activist-citizens, both foreign and domestic, have intensified their drumbeats of war against EXXON for a...

Eyewitness: Reflecting…

…on Moïse’s assassination The big, unanswered question on Haiti’s President Moïse’s assassination remains as to who are the “intellectual authors”. As yesterday’s editorial in this...

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Days after Jose Awad escaped from the Lusignan Prison, East Coast Demerara, he was reportedly spotted in the vicinity of Parika, East Bank Essequibo. ...

QC teacher sent on leave after allegedly beating students

An investigation has been launched into the beating of some 10 students of Queens College. According to reports, the incident occurred around 10:15h on Thursday...

Essequibo shopkeeper busted with cocaine, ganja

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Guyanese among 2 killed in Upstate NY head-on collision

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Taxi driver busted with 22kg ganja gets 4 years, fined $19.8M

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2-year-old-old among 3 injured after lorry crashes into concrete bridge

A two-year-old was among three persons injured after the motor lorry in which they were travelling crashed into a concrete bridge along the Glasgow...

8 illegal structures halt major infrastructural works in Linden – CH&PA

The Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority, Sherwyn Greaves, on Wednesday morning, went with a team on a fact-finding mission...

T&T Govt denies blocking importation of milk from Guyana

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Conciliation talks: Govt rejects GTU’s 20% across-the-board increase ultimatum

…says demand shocked Ministry, unreasonable The sudden ultimatum by the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) to demand that the Government pay all teachers a 20 per...

Fmr. PNC General Secretary, Oscar Clarke passes

Former General Secretary (GS) of the People's National Congress (PNC) reportedly died on Wednesday after complaining of feeling unwell. He died at a private...