Following a rigorous three-month training course, ninety-seven new firefighters graduated on Friday from the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) Training Centre at Leonora, Region Three. This is the largest cohort of recruits to graduate from the fire service. The graduating batch includes 11 persons from Region One; 11 from Region Three; 34 from Region Four; 14 […]
254 toshaos and Community Development Council (CDC) leaders received $1 million from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, during day four of the National Toshaos Council (NTC) Conference, at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre on Thursday. Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr, handed over the grants which will bolster Amerindian and […]
Children from Cashew Island in New River, Region Six and the Lower and Middle Mazaruni in Region Seven, will benefit from the construction of new schools, providing equitable access to quality education. This was disclosed by Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand on Wednesday, during the National Toshaos Council (NTC) Conference, at the Arthur Chung Conference […]
A total of 362 toshaos, senior councillors and chairpersons of the Community Development Councils from across Guyana were sworn in as ex-officio justices of the peace and rural constables. Some 114 toshaos were sworn in as JPs, while 248 toshaos, senior councillors and CDC chairs were sworn in as RCs. Following the ceremony, they were […]
The Amerindian People’s Association (APA) is callously and deliberately diverting attention from the ongoing, substantive consultations and solution-oriented dialogue between Amerindian leaders and the Government at the National Toshaos Committee (NTC) Conference, consumed as they are by an obsessive determination to deny Amerindians the very opportunities for development and participation in the transformative agenda that […]
– Min. Walrond tells village leaders at NTC Conference Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Oneidge Walrond disclosed that a comprehensive tourism handbook will soon be made available to all Amerindian villages, providing them with all the technical requirements for their eco-lodges and guesthouses to meet international standards. The handbook, which will be available by […]
The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) and the Caribbean Agricultural Productivity Improvement Activity (CAPA) have inked two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) that ensure continued success and expansion of key agricultural interventions locally. CAPA, a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Improving Economies for Stronger Communities […]
The Gas-to-shore energy development in Wales on the West Bank Demerara (WBD) is making significant progress, with the government allocating a substantial US$400 million from its resources to advance the project. Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, general secretary of the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP), confirmed during a press conference at Freedom House, in Georgetown that the […]
–Dr. Singh reiterates during his presentation at the NTC During his presentation today at the ongoing 2024 National Toshaos Council (NTC) Conference at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC), Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance and the Public Service, Dr. Ashni Singh explained to Toshaos that Government was continuing […]
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Dr Bharrat Jagdeo has criticised the elevation of partisan voices over the collective will of Guyana’s Indigenous communities. He argued that undue attention is being given to the Amerindian People’s Association (APA), a non-governmental organisation along with individual activists and an opposition parliamentarian at the expense of […]