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(NY Daily News) Nearly a quarter of the NYPD’s newest batch of cops are foreign born, with the Dominican Republic leading the way as the most popular birthplace. On Monday, 616 recruits will graduate after six months of training at the police academy. They hail from 49 countries, with 24 born in the Dominican Republic, […]
The first ever Strategic Plan for the Caribbean Community will be among major items for consideration by regional leaders at their 35th annual CARICOM Heads of Government conference in Antigua/Barbuda, July 1-4 2014. The meeting will be chaired by the newly elected Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Hon. Gaston Browne. The five year Strategic […]
The population of Guyana has recorded a marginal reduction of 3,339 persons as the preliminary results of the Guyana population and housing census 2012, released by the Guyana National Bureau of Statistics revealed that the population count of 751,223 at the previous census, September 15, 2002, was down to a count of 747,884 persons as […]
by Nicole Scherzinger (Sunday Express UK) I have always loved children and as a judge on the X Factor I always tried to be a really enthusiastic and supportive mentor. I feel it’s so important to encourage young people to be the best that they can be, no matter what their background is, so I […]
New carrier on the Guyana market, Dynamic Airways on Sunday switched its departure flight to Georgetown, Guyana from New York’s JFK Airport to New Jersey’s Atlantic City International Airport. The move came as authorities at the JFK Airport were still finalising arrangements with Dynamic Airways to allow the airline to operate from there following a […]
An early Sunday morning fire at Sister’s Village on the West Bank of Demerara has completely gutted three houses leaving over 10 persons homeless. According to persons who live in the area, the fire may have started just after 1 am on Sunday and quickly moved through the wooden houses, forcing occupants to run out […]
The Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking in Persons has designed a menu of measures in order to continue its efforts to combat human trafficking with a new action plan 2014-2015, which will be implemented in a two-year period. This action plan, while completely new to a large extent, also builds on initiatives that were […]
The Praise Tabernacle Church in the mining town of Linden is striving to do more to assist less fortunate children in the bauxite mining town by simply assisting them with a meal. Three years ago, the church started an ambitious programme to provide a lunch meal once per week to 40 children. It now provides […]
Leader of the People’s National Congress, retired Brigadier David Granger, has declared that the suspension facing PNC member and APNU Member of Parliament, Vanessa Kissoon is an internal party matter that is being addressed. In a brief conversation with News Source, the PNC Leader confirmed the suspension but would not offer any other details. Kissoon […]
(GINA) The Government of Guyana and more particularly, the Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking in Persons (TIP), have dismissed the recently published US State Department report on human trafficking in Guyana as inadequate, and a misrepresentation of the country’s reality with regards to this issue. Guyana was once again placed on the tier two watch […]
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