SOCIAL protection schemes have played a key role in helping the world’s poor recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and should be expanded, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, told the 60th Session of the United Nations Commission for Social Development in New York. Even before the…
By Akeem Greene akeem@newsroom.gy This season, Cricket West Indies (CWI), Four-Day Championship is reduced to just five rounds, mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2014 when CWI introduced the Professional Cricket League (PCL), the Championship was 10 rounds, with the franchise playing an equal number of matches home and away. Leon Johnson, the most…
— in Latin America and the Caribbean, says ILO THE economic growth recorded in 2021 was insufficient to recover labour markets in Latin America and the Caribbean, says a new report released by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). According to a release, the Labour Overview of Latin America and the Caribbean notes that after two…
The FIA says it knows about radio messages from the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that have raised fresh questions about last year’s title-decider. The messages seem to be further evidence of race director Michael Masi reacting to Red Bull’s suggestions as to how to end a safety-car period. And Masi echoes Red Bull’s language in…
THE Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has rejected claims by former Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Karen Cummings, of racism within the surgical department and surgical training programme at the hospital. Dr. Cummings, during her contribution to the budget debates on Thursday, February 3, 2022, alluded to “significant disparities along ethnic lines”…
Eager to tap into Guyana’s vast investment potential, the visiting British Trade Mission delegation expects to ink concrete agreements with the government and the local private sector as high interest is already seen in the development of shore base port facilities and the agriculture sector. The “excitement” was shared by the Managing Director of the…
— Vice-President Jagdeo says THE relationship Guyana shares with China and the United States of America will remain cordial and mutually beneficial, Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo has affirmed. Guyana has shared close ties with both nations for decades, but the country’s relationship with China was questioned recently by an interviewer from United States-based Vice News during…
Balram Singh, who was sentenced to 80 years imprisonment for the 2010 brutal murder of a taxi driver, had his sentence reduced to 35 years on Wednesday by the Court of Appeal on the grounds that the initial sentence was excessive. In 2015, Balram Singh was sentenced by Justice Navindra Singh at the Demerara High…
THE long-awaited University of Guyana Foundation (UGF) which will be focused on creating a substantial long-term endowment fund for the university was officially launched on Tuesday. With a huge gap in need for funding, the establishment of the foundation is considered pivotal, not only to the advancement of the university, but a great benefit to…
India’s hit-the-deck bustle trumped West Indies as the hosts defended 237 to wrap up the ODI series, with one game left. Prasidh Krishna led the way for India, returning extraordinary figures of 4-12 in nine overs and reminding everyone why he was picked ahead of Deepak Chahar once again. On an Ahmedabad track that offered extra…
