PPP/C Member of Parliament and Attorney-at-law, Sanjeev Datadin has called out the APNU+AFC for failing to adequately represent its constituencies in the National Assembly. This follows the opposition’s exit from the 50th sitting of the National Assembly on Monday with important pieces of legislation to be debated. Among the legislation was the Constitutional Reform Commission […]
Forty-one Women in Bartica, Region Seven graduated from the Board of Industrial Training’s (BIT) Women’s Economic Empowerment Programme. The graduates were trained in Solar Photovoltaic Technology, Installation, Repair, and Maintenance over three weeks. Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton, emphasised the importance of creating opportunities for the advancement of women across Guyana, which were not available […]
Guyanese interested in the oil and gas industry could soon contribute to the sector as government mulls the development of an apprenticeship programme with the Guyana Shore Base Incorporated (GYSBI).This was revealed Friday by Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton during a meeting with Deputy General Manager of GYSBI Rabin Chandrapal and management of the shore […]
Guyanese will benefit from the expertise of some 20 specialists from the Caribbean, Australia, South Africa, Europe, the United States, and Asia when the four-day mental health and well-being conference gets underway at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre from November 15. Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony, said the conference which runs until November 18, […]
Nineteen persons from across the country were on Friday appointed to serve as public notaries in the presence of Chief Magistrate (ag), Sherdell Isaacs. The appointments were made in accordance with the Public Notaries Act Cap 4:02. A public notary is an official appointed by the Office of the President to serve the public in […]
The Ministry of Education’s Unit of Allied Arts today hosted its inaugural Secondary Schools Choral Speaking Festival. Choral speaking is defined as a group of people narrating a poem or a dramatic piece. The event, which was hosted at the Theatre Guild, saw students from secondary schools from Regions Three, Four, Five Six And Georgetown […]
As promised by the Government of Guyana in relation to our gas-to-shore project and the 300 megawatt gas power plant, as soon as decisions are made, we promise to make them available to the public. The Government of Guyana, via Cabinet, today issued its no-objection to the ranking of CH4/Lindsayca as the number one ranked […]
The Special Education Needs (SEN) unit of the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) today hosted its annual conference under the theme ‘Come out of your comfort zone and enter your learning zone.’ Director of NCERD, Quenita Walrond-Lewis delivered brief remarks at the event, encouraging the Special Education Needs (SEN) officers to “never stop […]
The Honourable Hugh Hilton Todd, M.P, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation convened a meeting of the Multi-agency Coordinating Committee to address the influx of migrants from Venezuela into Guyana, on Wednesday, 9 November 2022. Present at the meeting were key stakeholders the relevant government agencies and international partners such as the International Organization […]
The Auditor General’s annual report for the fiscal year 2021 is out and not unexpectedly, a sitting member of the Public Accounts Committee, Opposition Member of Parliament Ganesh Mahipaul is falling over himself to grab onto the floating straws of this report, in a shameless attempt to save his party from drowning under the tons […]