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Guyana’s and the Caribbean’s top student at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination Sarah Hakh stole the spotlight at the Abram Zuil Secondary School annual graduation exercise on Saturday. Showered with gifts and trophies, the diminutive and elegant Hakh in her valedictorian address urged all students to reveal the best in themselves. “You can be the best of the best, if only you give yourself the time to aspire and aim for it,” she said to a rapt audience as she related the challenges she had leading up to…

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The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme “I Love Beautiful Guyana” art competition culminated on Thursday with an award ceremony for outstanding artists, whose creative drawings depicted Guyana’s unique natural beauty and emphasised the need for the preservation of the eco-system. UNV Programme Officer Michiru Ito, the brainchild of the competition, said the organisation received overwhelming support, with more than 50 persons vying to compete in the five categories established: primary school pupils, secondary school students, children with disabilities, adults and seniors. Using new media, the drawings were posted on the…

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President Ramotar with one of the winning groups from the float competition The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha on Monday evening pulled off one of the biggest Diwali motorcade ever since its existence some 40 years ago, at the La Bonne Intention Community Ground.  Over 25 floats participated in the small; large and commercial categories. The floats were magnificently lit and decorated as usual, but a touch of class and immense creativity were added to excite the thousands who flocked the seawalls, and along the route to the LBI ground, in…

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Guyana Times International interview with Swami Aksharananda Part 1 Over in TT, Divali Nagar (Divali Town) is an annual event that attracts hundreds of thousands every year. At the opening of Divali Nagar 2012 TT’s Local Government Minister Dr Suruj Rambachan made a bold statement: “I am worried about the chutney culture and the rum culture which has seeped into the psyche of our peoples, to a point where I feel that it will be irreversible in the future.” Rambachan is an outspoken Hindu leader, but it was a dramatic…

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Ajai Cecil Sukhu, 18, was last Saturday evening beaten and stabbed to death by three men in the vicinity of the Rose Hall Community Centre Ground in Berbice. The details of the incident is a bit sketchy, but Guyana Times International understands that  Sukhu of 10 Bajan Street, Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, Berbice, reportedly left home around 18:30hrs on Saturday to go to a fair at the centre ground, which is not far away from where he lived. His father, Chandrabose Sukhu said about 15 minutes after Ajai left, he…

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Commander-in-chief of the disciplined services, President Donald Ramotar; Prime Minister Samuel Hinds; Opposition Leader David Granger; and other senior public officials laid wreaths at the Georgetown Cenotaph in observance of Remembrance Day. The Georgetown Cenotaph, a war memorial located at the junction of Main and Church streets, was unveiled on August 14, 1923, by then Governor Graeme Thomson, and the first Armistice Day observance took place at the Church Street monument on November 11, 1923. On the four faces of the base of the cenotaph, the words – Devotion, Humanity,…

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At age 30, Terrence Krishendat Sukhu, the founder and CEO of Digital Technology, is ecstatic that he can play a role in revolutionising the information communications technology sector in Guyana. In an exclusive interview, the young entrepreneur recalled his days as a student and some of the challenges that he encountered in his early days in the competitive world of business. Those obviously were not deterrents but building blocks to his success. The smiling CEO explained that Digital Technology was an idea he came up with in his bedroom –…

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