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 Bharrat Jagdeo
Bharrat Jagdeo

Jagdeo slams Stabroek News editorial

People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo, responding to an editorial published by Stabroek News on Wednesday on the third anniversary of  the government opined that it deflected the major successes of his party’s administration.

Part of the LBI scheme (CHPA photo)

Another 77 young professional homes for LBI

Even as works are ongoing on a total of 210 young professional housing units at La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara, plans are underway for the construction of an additional 77 units in the same scheme, according to the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA).

Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Dr. Vindhya Persaud; UNICEF Area Representative, Nicolas Pron; UNICEF Deputy Representative for Guyana & Suriname, Irfan Akhtar and High Commissioner of Canada to Guyana, Mark Berman along with students of the Lovable Friends and Kiskadee Daycare centres inspect an Early Childhood Development kit at the handover ceremony. (UNICEF Guyana photo)

UNICEF donates 100 Early Childhood Development kits

Some 40,000 children under the age of four, along with twenty thousand parents/caregivers in Guyana, will soon benefit from quality Early Childhood Development (ECD) programmes and family support services, according to UNICEF Area Representa-tive for Guyana and Suri-name, Nicolas Pron.

Oneidge Walrond

E-Communications and Transaction Bill passed

The Electronic Communications and Transaction Bill, which was laid in the National Assembly on July 20 by the Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Oneidge Walrond with the aim to establish the legal framework for the use and acceptance of electronic records and signatures was passed last evening.

Chinese Landing says never sought cessation of all mining on its lands

The  Chinese Landing Village Council yesterday said that it never asked government to stop all mining on its lands as some of its villagers earn their livelihoods this way and it continued to differ with the decision of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs to dispatch a “fact-finding” mission in response to a resolution of the IACHR.

Stakeholders during the meeting

Stakeholders in El Nino planning session

Based on recent predictions from the Hydrometeorological Office that the country will endure an extended dry season for the remainder of 2023, the Office of the Prime Minister has mandated that a National El Nino Preparedness and Planning Committee mobilize to anticipate the effects.

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