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GEORGETOWN, Guyana June 13, 2020 (PRIDE) — Keith Lowenfield, the Chief Elections Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), has submitted his report, of the recently-concluded recount of the March 2 election, to the Chair, retired Justice, Claudette Singh, ...

HAMILTON, Bermuda June 13, 2020 (CMC) – Bermuda is expected to get its first female and first Black Governor, later this year, it was officially announced, yesterday. Government House said Rena Lalgie, who is married with two children, will succeed ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica June 13, 2020 — Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, announced that the hospitality industry is ready to receive an estimated 6,000 visitors, who are expected to arrive in the island, between June 15 and 30, as the government ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 13, 2020 (CMC) – Prime Minister Andrew Holness, yesterday, described the murders of two police officers and the injury to two others, during an early morning ambush by gunmen, as “an immeasurable tragedy”, and vowed “we will ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, June 13, 2020 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government has tabled legislation in Parliament, aimed at amending the twin-island’s 104-year-old fisheries legislation. “Madame Speaker, for the first time in 104 years, a Bill ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana June 13, 2020 — The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), on Thursday, reported a 13 percent increase in rice exports, between January and May 2020, when compared to the same period, last year, according to General Manager, Nizam ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 12, 2020 (CMC) – The Head of the Commonwealth elections observer group that scrutinised the disputed March 2 election in Guyana, Owen Arthur, has defended the statements, made by St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr. ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 13, 2020 (CMC) – President David Granger proclaimed, last night, that Guyana is not a “lawless” state and the country’s elections commission (GECOM) should be allowed to perform its function, as nationals await the official declaration of ...

By Tamari Kitossa Guest Contributor Amidst the grief, disbelief and justified outrage at the killing of African Americans, many people want to make sense of what appears to be senseless police mayhem and violence. The killing of George Floyd and ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist I am watching as various classes of elites, politicians and top-ranking public figures succinctly drive this country, and its Black population, deeper into conflict and division, on account of mere interpretation and denial. The term, ...