Longstanding Childcare and Protection Agency director, Ann Greene has proceeded on retirement and the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security hosted a farewell for the visionary on Friday. Minister of Human Services, Dr. Vindhya Persaud led the proceedings of tributes to the veteran and thanked her for her service. “On behalf of the Ministry,…
— Education Minister By Cassandra Khan GIVEN the multitude of opportunities smart classrooms bring to both teachers and students, in excess of 10 schools in Guyana have been equipped with smart classrooms over the last two years. Among the 10 schools is Leonora Secondary School in Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara). Education Minister, Priya Manickchand,…
MINISTERS and representatives of more than 20 countries of the Americas endorsed the proposed update to the Medium-term Plan (MTP) of the Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture (IICA). The MTP will serve as a roadmap to guide the actions and priorities of the agency specialising in agricultural and rural development from 2022 to 2026,…
THE race to replace Boris Johnson as the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales has boiled-down to the last two contenders, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss — a former Chancellor of the Exchequer and the current Foreign Affairs Minister, an Englishman of Indian descent versus an Englishwoman from…
— promotes Guyana as the region’s leading investment destination THE Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) and Advertising & Marketing Services (AMS) have released the 9th Edition of the INVEST GUYANA – the Premier Investment Magazine of Guyana and the official Investment Magazine of GO-Invest and the Government of Guyana. According to a release, the publication…
— Tourism Minister urges distributor to support local products RESIDENTS along the East Coast corridor will now benefit from an array of quality foods, beverages, household and healthcare products with the opening of an ANSA McAL Trading Limited (AMLT) mini mart at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara, on Friday. Speaking at the launching, Managing Director, Troy…
SCORES of small business owners were given an opportunity to showcase their products and services at “Ujamaa 2.0,” a two-day Emancipation sale and exhibition organised by the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly Guyana (IDPADA-G) on Main Street, Georgetown. The exhibition, which is the second of its kind, saw Afro-Guyanese entrepreneurs displaying a…
THE Ministry of Education, on Friday, signed contracts to the tune of $198.9 million for the construction of annexes at Queen’s College and The Bishops’ High School. The contracts were signed in the boardroom of the Ministry of Education where Permanent Secretary, Alfred King signed on behalf of the ministry. The annex, which is to…
OVER 80 young people from across Guyana are expected to participate in the Parliament of Guyana’s 7th annual youth parliament. This was said on Friday by coordinators of the programme who met with the media corps in the Parliament Chamber at Parliament Buildings, Georgetown. According to Parliamentary Executive Officer, Carlleta Charles, the Youth Parliament programme…
Guyana, in just a few years, is expected to earn about US$7.5 billion (or GY $1.5 trillion) annually through several oil projects in the prolific offshore Stabroek Block, Energy Researcher, Schreiner Parker, has said. Parker, speaking at a virtual presentation hosted by the Guyana Business Journal and Magazine on Thursday, said that the government’s take…
