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New national museum, expanded School of Music, permanent Arts & Craft markets among PPP/C’s plans for creative industries
I News Guyana
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August 18, 2025
The Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) has outlined in its 2025 manifesto its plans to position Guyana a leader in the Caribbean in the creative and cultural industries, by investing in, incentivising, and protecting these sectors. Among the...
Rebuilt North Ruimveldt Secondary to get improved sport facilities and technology driven classrooms
News Source Guyana
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August 18, 2025
President Irfaan Ali and Education Minister, Priya Manickchand, today commissioned the reconstructed North Ruimveldt Secondary school. A portion of the school was destroyed by fire almost four years ago. The school has been rebuilt at a cost of...
Jockey’s death overshadows Dataman’s Guyana Cup triumph
News Room
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August 18, 2025
The horse racing community in Guyana is in mourning after the tragic death of 18-year-old jockey Kishawn Pereira, which cast a solemn pall over the day’s events at the Guyana Cup 2025 at Rising Sun Turf Club. In Sunday’s premier event, Dataman,...
Guyana’s Amisha Ramjit Stuns Region with 25 CSEC Passes – One of the Caribbean’s Top Female Students
Times Caribbean
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August 18, 2025
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA – August 18, 2025 – The Caribbean is celebrating a phenomenal academic triumph as Amisha Ramjit of Guyana emerged as one of the top female high school students in this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC)...
About last week: one of the most intriguing in Guyanese politics
Guyana Chronicle
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August 18, 2025
THIS past week so much has happened in these 83,000 square miles that it could easily be considered the hottest, busiest and most intriguing in recent political memory. I cannot think of a group of consecutive days in an election season that was...
Extreme noise pollution from Movietowne
Stabroek News
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August 18, 2025
Dear Editor, It seems that the management of Movietowne in Turkeyen is incapable or unwilling to maintain order in the parking lot of their business. What started out as one person playing music from their car occasionally, has evolved into a...
One example of musical chairs at GECOM
Stabroek News
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August 18, 2025
Dear Editor, In attendance at a meeting of GECOM officials with party agents, the issue of dead persons being listed was raised. The example of someone who died 13 years ago and whose death was registered with the GRO was provided. GECOM’S Deputy...
Understanding the border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela
Stabroek News
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August 18, 2025
Last Monday, Venezuela filed a rejoinder with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela. The rejoinder is an additional response to Guyana’s reply to Venezuela’s submission to the ICJ....
100 +: Notes on Political Parties that shaped Guyana
Stabroek News
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August 18, 2025
By Nigel Westmaas Nigel Westmaas is a researcher and public scholar and Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Hamilton College, New York. (NB: This is an updated and modified version of an article published in Stabroek News in July...
‘This is not a wishlist’
Guyana Chronicle
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August 18, 2025
—President Ali says PPP/C’s manifesto anchored in building out Guyana, supporting all Guyanese especially the most vulnerable groups — grounded in careful planning, strategic, realistic vision AFFIRMING that Guyana’s future rests on “actionable...
Guyanese RC priest Monsignor Terrence Montrose celebrates golden jubilee of ordination
Stabroek News
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August 17, 2025
Monsignor Terrence Montrose popularly known as Fther Monty Monsignor Terrence John Gordon Montrose CCH, fondly called Father Monty, celebrated the Golden Jubilee anniversary of his ordination as a Diocesan priest with a mass on Sunday last at the...
OPINION: Guyana elections raw: Screw, grease, erection, in a box
Demerara Waves
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August 17, 2025
Last Updated on Sunday, 17 August 2025, 9:25 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall Screw without grease. Erection. In a box. It’s the new vocabulary of elections in Guyana. There’s something for everyone. Peepshow customers got a free ticket. Those who...
CPL 2025 Live Streaming Online St Kitts and Nevis Patriot vs Trinbago Knight Riders: Watch Telecast of Caribbean Premier League Cricket Match on TV and Online
Latestly
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August 17, 2025
Five-time champions Trinbago Knight Riders will commence their Caribbean Premier League (CPL 2025) campaign when they take on St Kitts and Nevis Patriot in their first match of the tournament on Sunday, August 17. The St Kitts and Nevis Patriot vs...
PPP/C outlines plan for citizens to apply for birth certificates, ID cards, passports, & driver’s licences online
I News Guyana
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August 19, 2025
During the next five years, incorporating the e-ID system, the Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) will establish the MyGuyana citizen portal, a single, centralised, one-stop, digital platform, available via website, Android, and iPhone apps,...
$566.9M North Ruimveldt Secondary School commissioned
I News Guyana
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August 18, 2025
President Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali on Monday officially commissioned the rebuilt North Ruimveldt Secondary School, restoring a key educational institution that was devastated by fire in June 2021. “This is about building an ecosystem of positive...
The Caribbean’s global fashion powerbroker
The Gleaner
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August 17, 2025
Savvily building an entrepreneurial empire one major model after another, Deiwght Peters has developed an enviable credibility in the multi-billion-dollar fashion industry that stretches far beyond Jamaica’s shores. The SAINT International chief...
Sports development key to upliftment of citizens, placing Guyana on the global stage
Guyana Chronicle
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August 17, 2025
—Former National Cricketer hails gov’t investment in sports FORMER national cricketer Steven Jacobs has thrown his weight behind the current government, citing the massive building out of the sports sector and the government’s push to transform...
‘Nothing to Laugh About’ has mastered the art of stress relief through ‘skin teeth’
Stabroek News
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August 17, 2025
A promotion poster for the show posted on the production’s Facebook page in June It is the age of comedy, and once again, revelling in its element, the comic revue “Nothing to Laugh About” reigns supreme. It has sustained a place at the top of...
QC boys top CSEC, CAPE for Guyana
Guyana Chronicle
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August 16, 2025
GUYANESE students have secured an overwhelming number of high grades at the 2025 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE). This outstanding performance follows the roll...
The Biggest Party in Sport bowls off – Can TKR end search for fifth CPL title?
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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August 16, 2025
Sports Jelani Beckles 6 Hrs Ago Trinbago Knight Riders' Nicholas Pooran plays a shot during the 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League. - Photo courtesy CPL T20 IT is that time of year again for the Biggest Party in Sport – the Republic Bank...