BBC News: Guyana’s ruling Peoples progressive Party (PPP) were heading for another term in government.
Results from Guyana’s national and regional elections started to come out Wednesday night giving the PPP-Civic Alliance an estimated 65 per cent of the vote.
Roger Corbin, the leader of the main opposition People’s National Congress (PNC) said he was waiting […]

Guyana Chronicle: A 17-YEAR-OLD Queen’s College student, with 12 Grade Ones, has emerged the top student at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams, offered by the Caribbean Examinations Council.
“I was shocked. I thought I would have done good; but topping, that is really cool,” Shirvanie Persaud, of Lot 45 North Vryheid’s […]

Live election results are available at GuyanaPlace.com/elections
You can also get live radio updates from Indo Caribbean Radio which has a radio linkup with GECOM media head-quarters and is running periodic updates.

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Sir Clyde Walcott, distinguished West Indies player, administrator, selector and manager died in his native Barbados on Saturday August 25 at the age of 80.
Clyde Leopold Walcott, with Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell, was one of the so-called 3 Ws who dominated West Indian cricket in the years after World War II.
The three were […]

Georgetown, GINA, August 23, 2006
His Excellency, President Bharrat Jagdeo has authorised the Ministry of Home Affairs to gazette Monday, August 28, 2006 a Public Holiday.
This decision was taken after representation by stakeholders and citizens in the interest of ensuring orderly Elections day activities.
Further, the declaration of August 28 as a Public Holiday will also […]

Guyana, August 20, 2006…About 50% of public tickets for the Super Eight matches in the Cricket World Cup 2007 tournament to be held in Guyana next year have been sold with the majority of the sales going to members of the Guyanese diaspora.
Tickets in a number of categories were oversubscribed in some Caribbean countries, […]

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - About 365 Guyanese students will travel to Cuba next month as part of a program granting scholarships to universities in the communist-run country, an official said Wednesday.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Guyana emphatically beat Jamaica by eight wickets at the Enmore Community Centre ground yesterday in the penultimate round of the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 tournament.
Set 85 to win after Jamaica, resuming at 183-3, were dismissed for 304, Guyana reached their target for the loss of two wickets to move […]

Gulf Times: “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy and disregard of all rules. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
Once again, George Orwell supplies the words which appear so prescient as a description of events now unfolding - in this case the […]