See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Kenton X. Chance KINGSTOWN, Nov 6, 2018 (IPS) — As a child growing up in Mayreau four decades ago, Filius “Philman” Ollivierre remembers a 70-foot-wide span of land, with the sea on either side ...
Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Volda Lawrence Tuesday afternoon down-played A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) loss of several seats on the Georgetown City Council at Monday’s general elections as an unhealthy sign going into Guyana’s next ...
Port of Spain, Trinidad. The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruled that a law in Guyana, which makes it a criminal offence for a man or a woman to appear in a public place while dressed in clothing of the ...
The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has picked up at least three seats in the Georgetown City Council, winning against its nearest rival A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) according to unofficial results. A senior APNU activist and a senior ...
The Alliance For Change (AFC) appeared to have been virtually wiped out of the local government political landscape, leaving A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) trailing behind the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) overall in many key local authority areas. Unofficial ...
Polls in Guyana’s Local Government Elections closed at 6 PM and counting has begun to ascertain who will control the 10 town councils and 70 neighbourhood councils. In an initial reaction, the Alliance For Change (AFC) said the polls in ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Dawn Plummer Michelle Cole knew exactly what she wanted to be when she grew up — and is now living her dream. The 21-year-old hails from Guyana and is an international designer and corporate ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Alexandra Simon A Brooklyn organization fed several of the borough’s homeless at a food pantry on Saturday in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The Bedford-Stuyvesant Lions Club held a pre-Thanksgiving event for the needy at the Mount Lebanon ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King With the celebration of Remembrance Day in the Caribbean on Sunday, Caribbean veterans who participated in World War One are lamenting the treatment meted out to them. Exactly a century since ...
Even as the Guyana Elections Commission boasted it was ready to conduct Local Government Elections in villages and towns across the country on Monday, three polling day officials were barred from working because they are related to candidates, a commission ...