The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security’s Women’s Innovation and Investment Network (WIIN) on Tuesday launched its first ever business workshop, targeting 350 women countrywide. The women will benefit from a three-day comprehensive training in practical skills needed to create and sustain their own businesses. Human Services Minister, Dr. Vindhya Persaud, MP, noted at […]
Through the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Essequibo Islands-West Demerara Region has received $20 million in medical equipment to boost its maternal and child health services. The project was developed in 2017 to support and improve maternal and child healthcare in Guyana. The country is among those with the highest maternal and infant mortality rates […]
Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, M.P, on Tuesday commissioned a $30 million blood bank at the West Demerara Regional Hospital, in Region Three. Speaking at the opening ceremony, the minister said building and upgrading blood banking facilities is an area of priority for the ministry this year. “One of the things that we want […]
Several key stakeholders, including the Supreme Court of Judicature and UNICEF, came together on Tuesday to launch 12 Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts around the country. The courts, which are spread out in various magisterial districts, are specifically aimed at providing a different course of action for juveniles who come into contact with the law, and […]
On May 10th, 2022, the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security through the Guyana Women’s Leadership Institute launched its first WIIN in Business Workshop at Cove and John, East Coast Demerara. The workshop will run for three days, training up and coming women entrepreneurs in practical business skills, how to write a business plan, […]
Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, M.P, is once again urging persons not to become complacent, as the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet over in Guyana. During Tuesday’s COVID-19 update, he said persons are encouraged to continue wearing their masks in crowded areas, and to get vaccinated. Minister Anthony said there are currently 184 active […]
In the next nine months, students attending the Government Technical Institute will benefit from a brand-new state of the art building. The $140 million project is part of a public-private partnership between the Ministry of Education and the Ken Subraj Foundation, a former student of GTI. Once completed the building will boast an oil and […]
–CHPA CEO clarifies Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA), Sherwyn Greaves has clarified that only two habitable structures were demolished at Amelia’s Ward, Linden to make way for an access road. The others varied from chain-link fences, to wooden and concrete foundations. The CEO was at the time engaging the […]
-amicable resolution agreed on Some sixteen persons who have come forward to lay claims to structures which were demolished during an exercise in a squatting area at Phase 4, Amelia’s Ward Linden, were part of a ‘fruitful’ discussion with Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority, Mr. Sherwyn Greaves. On Monday, May […]
The government has offered housing units and house lots to 16 squatters of Amelia’s Ward, Linden, Region Ten, who were displaced, to make way for the construction of a new access road. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) Sherwyn Greaves on Monday met with the residents at the Regional […]