The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) will be opening up some 6,000 acres of state land for residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural purposes in Region 4. GLSC’s Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Trevor Benn, in making the announcement, said the move would see Guyana ...
Small businesses in Guyana will from January 1, 2019 be able to access 20 percent of government contracts for goods and services, even as government’s Small Business Bureau said they would be screened to avoid big companies from setting up ...
General Secretary of the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday declined to say whether he supports Shadow Finance Minister, Irfan Ali to be his party’s presidential candidate, but he did not believe criminal charges should be a ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By George Alleyne Barbados is suddenly and rapidly moving towards legalising use of marijuana in the medicinal form, but its recreational uses will have to take a back seat until the entire population has a ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Alexandra Simon Like mother, like son! A Long Island mom and her son are hosting a giftback event for sick youngsters at a Queens children’s hospital on Dec. 21. Elmont-based mom, Natalie M. Joseph ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King In an elaborate ceremony at Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers College, the Brooklyn-based St. Vincent and the Grenadines Diaspora Committee of New York, Inc. recently launched the Maxwell Haywood Scholarship and Development Fund. ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Alexandra Simon A Brooklyn-based entrepreneur created a cosmetics line for the fast-forwarding thinking woman. Celfie Cosmetics is a family-run business headed by its Jamaican-American CEO and founder, Nicole Harding. She said in today’s selfie-driven ...
Former Minister of Home Affairs, Ronald Gajraj died on Saturday at the Woodlands Hospital where he was rushed earlier in the day, former President of Guyana, Donald Ramotar said. Gajraj was 65 years old. It was unclear what was the ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams on Tuesday celebrated his Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19) capital budget allocation of $3,026,000 for affordable housing across the borough, supporting the development and maintenance of ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King The Bronx-based Vincentian charity group, St. Matthias Charities, Inc., two Saturdays ago bestowed special honor on popular Brooklyn-based, Jamaican gospel artiste, Croswell Daley. Daley received the distinguished award during the group’s ...