The Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) is on high alert for foot and mouth and other vesicular diseases following confirmed cases in Venezuela. Head of GLDA’s Animal Health Unit, Dr. Colbert Bowen says following confirmation of the disease presence the ...
Finance Minister, Winston Jordan prefers to cautiously approach the idea of conditional cash transfers from Guyana’s oil earnings to poor ordinary Guyanese, even as the Alliance For Change (AFC) backed the idea and promised to lobby its coalition partner to ...
Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Raphael Trotman on Wednesday said his party would have to prove its value to A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) by contesting the upcoming Local Government Elections (LGE) alone. “I believe the AFC ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King Inspired by popular Trinidadian calypsonian The Mighty Shadow, Dingolay Mas will this year pay tribute to the witty and dynamic calypsonian in its Labor Day production. With the presentation dubbed “Shadows,” ...
Another People’s Progressive Party (PPP) presidential candidate hopeful, Charles Ramson Jr. Wednesday morning openly disagreed with his party’s frontbencher, Anil Nandlall’s belief that cash transfers of oil revenues to the poor will culture parasites. “Regrettably, I therefore have to say ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King Brooklyn Council Member Jumaane D. Williams on Monday joined a chorus of tributes for the late president of the Brooklyn-based West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA) President, William R. “Bill” ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Vinette K. Pryce As temperatures soar into the 90s, New Yorkers may be experiencing the “dog days of August.” However, on Aug. 6, a few Jamaicans risked the heat, sunstroke and Monday morning rush ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Tangerine Clarke President David A. Granger, during a festival on Aug. 1 to commemorate the 180th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, called on Guyanese to strive for “economic emancipation” that he noted would ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Alexandra Simon A Harlem-based media company is seeking out creatives to participate in its annual competition. Black Public Media is hosting its third annual 360 Incubator — a search for producers and filmmakers in ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King The three-year-old Suga Candy Mas is dreaming for another bumper year in the West Indian American Day Carnival Parade. “This year’s presentation is called ‘Dreams,’” band leader Belizean Maxine Magdaleno, told ...