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Seven hundred and sixty-four (764) students graduated today from the Ministry of Health’s Nursing Assistant Hybrid Training Programme. The graduation ceremony took place at the National Cultural Centre. The programme was initiated by the Government in two years ago as part of its efforts to increase the number of trained Nursing Assistants in the country. […]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today said it is monitoring the air quality in Linden, even as the Guyana Fire Service with support from the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) continues its fire suppression efforts to control the smoldering fire involving waste material from some sawmills in Linden. The fire has been flaring up since last […]
Non-governmental organisation, ChildLink, is set to launch the Blue Umbrella Day (BUD) Campaign to raise awareness about the need for better care and protection of boys, particularly against sexual violence. ChildLink’s Programme Officer, Sadia Persaud said the intention is to advocate to the United Nations to declare April 16 as the International Day dedicated to […]
The Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), Shaikh Moeenul Hack told the United Nations Forum on the People of African Descent that Africa and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are united in their calls for reparations. However, he said greater support is needed for justice to be achieved. “It will take the support and will […]
The ExxonMobil Guyana company today announced the arrival of the ONE GUYANA Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel in Guyanese waters. The vessel joins the Destiny, Unity and Prosperity FPSOs in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. In a statement, the company said ONE GUYANA FPSO will operate in the Yellowtail development, with an initial production […]
One week after he shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, Marissa Beete, at her West Demerara home, Security Service owner and Drug trafficking convict, Ghalee Khan appeared at the Wales Magistrates’ Court this morning and was charged for the woman’s murder. Khan who had been hospitalised for the past week for a self-inflicted gunshot wound was […]
By Svetlana Marshall The Chairman of the International Decade for People of African Descent Guyana (IDPADA-G), Vincent Alexander, has told a United Nations forum that Afro-Guyanese continue to be systematically marginalized. Mr. Alexander addressed the 4th Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent at the United Nations on Monday afternoon, and said […]
The Ministry of Housing’s Dream Realised house lot allocation exercise on the West Bank of Demerara descended in some chaos on Monday as hundreds of persons flocked the event, after learning that applications that were submitted up to last year were being addressed. Allocations were handed out for low, moderate, middle and high-income house lots […]
A small group of representatives from a number of Afro-Guyanese organisations picketed in front of the Parliament Buildings on Monday to register their objection to the presence of the Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), Shaikh Moeenul Hack, at the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, which opened at the United Nations Headquarters […]
The former Legal Counsel for the Guyana Elections Commission, Kurt DaSilva, is threatening legal action against the Chairman and the Chief Election Officer of the Commission, if they do not withdraw and correct, what he described as the “falsehoods” that were dictated against him in two recent press statements from the Commission. Last week, the […]
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