Guyana News

Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy has renewed his call for the private sector to increase its employment of differently-abled persons.

In an effort to boost the service standards at the Carnegie School of Home Economics the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has refurbished the school’s kitchen at a cost of US$20,000.

After she lost a friend in an accident last year, Earnesta Nelson put her feelings into song and won herself the 2007 Junior Calypso crown.

In Suriname the Canadian-owned IAMGOLD’s Rosebel gold mine has been temporarily closed after striking workers reportedly flooded part of the plant, welded shut some gates and doors, and damaged 17 all-terrain vehicles, accor-ding to a company official on Thursday.

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.