Guyana News

Government’s Education Plan through which it hopes to achieve “100 per cent functional literacy in children” through improved teaching methods and use of information technology has gotten a $15.6 billion boost in this year’s national budget.

Minister of Housing and Water Harry Narine Nawbatt on Monday told squatters along the Good Hope Sea Defence that they have been given house lots at Grassfield, Lusignan.

Twenty Parika farmers will be given 30,000 bull-nose pepper plants under a government/United States Agency for International Development (USAID) non-traditional agricultural diversification project.

There are no leads yet in the investigation into the murder of Kuru Kururu farmer Mark Ritchie, police at Timehri said yesterday.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) says it is saddened by the passing of one of Guyana’s finest journalists, Cecil Griffith.

A disagreement between a Guyanese man and his colleagues left him nursing injuries at a French Guiana hospital.

Demerara Distillers Ltd (DDL) yesterday asked the High Court to pronounce on the constitutionality of the appointment of Justice William Ramlal as an appeal court judge when the court’s substantive members are ready and able to sit; the legality of the court; and the legality of the appointment of the substantive Chief Justice as acting chancellor.

The Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) located in the Georgetown Public Hospital made medical history in Guyana yesterday by completing three angioplasties with the assistance of a team from the US.

Over the next five years, government will execute major infrastructural works throughout the country with a view to stabilising and strengthening Guyana’s extensive sea and river defence network.

A two-member labour mission is currently in Guyana at the request of local trade union bodies to assist them with their unification efforts.

Again, pardon me for not discussing herein such “significant issues” as the Value-Added Tax.

Examining the government website of a country provides a good insight into its state of e-readiness and how far it has progressed along the road of improving the delivery of government services to citizens by the application of technology.

Think about what happens most often when we decide to make a major change in the way our company does things.

You are probably not likely to meet too many young Guyanese businessmen with the self-belief of Jermaine London.

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No West Indian novel has chronicled the tribulations of the poor and the downtrodden more poignantly than the Jamaican writer Orlando Patterson’s The Children of Sisyphus.

The Guyana Youth Business Trust (GYBT) last year disbursed 266 loans valued at $41.13m to young entrepreneurs compared with 409 loans totalling $45m in 2005.

Clerk of Markets Schulder Griffith has told Stabroek Business that the revenue collected from stallholders and vendors is sufficient to meet the cost of maintaining Georgetown’s five municipal markets and wants the City Council to “plough back” those funds directly into providing services for the facilities.

Ryszard Kapuscinski, one of the most distinguished foreign correspondents of the last half-century, died last week at the age of 74.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the rape of a woman committed by a notorious and now dead wanted man for which his father is also charged commenced yesterday at the Wales Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.