500 per cent staff increase at EDWC
To enhance monitoring capacity during mid-year rains
AGRICULTURE Minister Robert Persaud said an additional 160 persons will be employed to enhance the monitoring capacity of the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) during the mid-year rainy period.
Speaking at a recent press briefing at his ministry, Persaud pointed out that the additional staff will supplement the 32 already […]
Guyana will not endorse CET waiver for rice for Jamaica
This first crop to be bigger than ever
AGRICULTURE Minister Robert Persaud says Guyana will not endorse any waiver of CARICOM’s Common External Tariff (CET) for Jamaica to import rice from outside the region if there is no proper justification of the move.
Persaud made the announcement at a recent press briefing held at his ministry when […]
Rampersaud Tiwari, Auntie Comesee among Guyana Awards (Canada) winners
THE Guyana Awards Council (Canada) has announced the ten winners of the prestigious Guyana Awards (Canada) to be presented at the upcoming Guyana Awards Gala on Saturday May 24 at the Delta Toronto East. Scarborough.
The winners are:
* Lifetime Achievement – Rampersaud Tiwari
* Culture - Pauline Thomas (Auntie Comesee)
* Academic Excellence - Dr. Jamal Dean
* Community […]
Culture Ministry opens exhibition to commemorate 170 years of Indentureship
AN exhibition was opened last week by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport to mark 170 years of the various ethnic groups’ arrival to Guyana.
At the exhibition at the Guyana National Museum, under the theme: ‘Different Shores; Common Destiny - Indentureship 170 years later’, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr. Frank Anthony said […]
Award-winning Javin on top of the world
TWENTY-four-year-old award winning Javin Chandrabose, a Medical Technologist in the Microbiology Department of the Medical Laboratory, Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (G.P.H.C), continuing the winning streak for which he has become known, has done it again.
This time, he was among several Medical Laboratory Professionals honoured by the Ministry of Health at the Bransville Apartments Georgetown, on […]
Human resources practitioners hold AGM
THE Human Resources Practitioners Association of Guyana (HRPAG) Executive Council on Sunday was reinstated en bloc at its 13th Annual General Meeting (AGM) convened at Banks DIH Sports Club, Thirst Park, Ruimveldt Georgetown.
The reinstated members are President Jeffrey Walcott; Vice President Mohan Ramrattan; Secretary/Treasurer Coletta Benn-Alphonso; Assistant Secretary/ Treasurer Sinclair Griffith; Committee Members Anna Benjamin […]
How much will we allow?
by Rev. Kwame Gilbert
I MUST applaud the very bold and decisive step taken by the Minister of Home Affairs in blacklisting two entertainers, whose performance/ lyrics are considered not to be in keeping with the moral ethos of our country.
I had begun to question, in recent times, the very sanity of some of these […]
Student HIV/AIDS study on knowledge & stigma
PERSPECTIVES
THE HIV prevalence rate of adults aged 15-49 in Guyana today is 2.4%. However, the first ten (10) cases of AIDS were reported in 1987, and in each year thereafter, there has been a constant increase in the incidence of the disease. Initial response to an evolving epidemic in the late 1980s was limited; at […]
CHANGING FACE OF VITAL CARICOM ARM
After Bernal what next for the CRNM?
NOW THAT Ambassador Richard Bernal, a professional economist with some 35 years of experience, has offered his resignation as Director General of the Caribbean Regional
Negotiating Machinery (CRNM), two related questions arise:
What, if any, effort has been made by the political directorate of the Caribbean Community to retain […]
CHANGING DYNAMICS IN THE LABOUR MOVEMENT
There is a tendency to downplay the importance of ideology especially in the context of globalization. The thinking behind this perception is that the role of labour is becoming increasingly insignificant, given the impact of technology, in particular information and communication technology which, it is argued, is transforming the nature and role of labour in […]
