THE Ministry of Human Services and Social Security on Thursday launched a partnership with the online learning platform, Coursera, which will expand training courses to participants of the Women’s Innovation and Investment Network (WIIN) programme. The launch was held at the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security and subject minister Dr Vindhya Persaud noted…
THE A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) said that some persons were “mistakenly” included in their evidence which they claim provides proof of voter impersonation at the 2020 General and Regional Elections. This was brought up during Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton’s press conference last Tuesday. Late last month, Attorney-General…
-Gov’t to offer scholarships for LEC studies THE graduands of the Certificate in Advocacy and Evidence for Summary Courts and Prosecutor’s Course will be inducted into the Guyana Police Force (GPF) as sergeants before commencing their prosecutorial duties for the state. This is according to Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall, S.C., who…
TWENTY farmers from various communities were, on Thursday, recipients of sows, one each for the purpose of boosting swine rearing and pork production as a part of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) genetic improvement programme. At a simple handing over ceremony at GLDA’s head office at Mon-Repo, East Coast Demerara, Kester Trim, one of…
THE members of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the events surrounding the March 2, 2020, General and Regional Elections, will have seven months to complete their work in keeping with the Terms of Reference, which have been published in the Official Gazette Retired Justice of Appeal, Stanley John, will chair the CoI. Attorney-General,…
THE private criminal charge which was brought against Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum by attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes was on Thursday discontinued by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack. The cybercrime charge was filed on Wednesday by Hughes, who is representing police Sergeant Dion Bascom, who is currently out on $300,000 bail. On Wednesday, Bascom…
SHORTER payment timelines are now available to Guyanese companies that supply oil-and-gas companies, SBM Offshore and Halliburton, among others following the approval of amendments to their respective local-content master plans on Thursday. According to a release from the Local Content Secretariat, these amendments, which are included in the five-year local content plan and are enforceable…
–families of President, Prime Minister and Opposition Leader counted THE Bureau of Statistics on September 15, Census Day, began the enumeration process of counting all people in Guyana, in the National Population and Housing Census 2022, starting with the households of the President, Prime Minister, and the Leader of the Opposition. According to a release,…
— President Ali proposes additional US$25M for women and youth in agriculture GUYANA and Caribbean nations will benefit US$28M from the US to increase food production in the region, President Dr Irfaan Ali announced on Thursday. The President made the announcement following a meeting with US Vice-President Kamala Harris in Washington. According to President Ali,…
More than 10,000 people, primarily women, will benefit from training in specific areas that should help them generate an income through a new partnership between the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security and global online learning platform Coursera. This initiative effectively allows the Ministry to significantly expand its Women Innovation and Investment Network (WIIN)…
