Sir Trevor Hassell, the President of the Healthy Caribbean Coalition- an internationally-recognised non-profit organisation in the fight against non-communicable diseases- on Monday challenged agriculture stakeholders across the region to take up huge swathes of land in Guyana and Suriname to ...
The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has denied any involvement in recent actions by the Surinamese telecoms authority to pull the data sharing service that was being provided to its competitor, Digicel Guyana. The company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) ...
President David Granger and top officials of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) on Monday held talks aimed at staving off another strike by teachers. GTU General Secretary, Coretta Mc Donald told the media briefly that the President addressed the meeting ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Emergency teams worked to provide relief in Haiti on Sunday after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake killed at least 11 people and left several injured. The government reported seven deaths in the ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Alexandra Simon A new report released by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) shows that between 2000 and 2015, the rate of tuberculosis-related deaths and incidents decreased significantly in the Americas. The Caribbean region ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Azad Ali Jamaica’s Minister of Agriculture Audley Shaw announced that Jamaica has made its first shipment of medical marijuana extracted oil to Canada, marking the first step in positioning Jamaica as the world’s medical ...
A Queenstown, Essequibo Coast farmer is in police custody as investigators probe the shooting of another farmer in the Quwenstown backlands early Saturday morning, Guyana Police Force sources said. Sustaining pellet wounds to his middle lower back and left buttock ...
Two bandits, who pretended to be policemen, slammed the living quarters of a security guard, forcing him to flee the premises after which the tied him up and stole GY$6.1 million dollars in items from a sand pit operation, police ...
By GHK Lall In the middle of what could only be termed the new American Civil War, what does the Kavanaugh confirmation mean for minorities in the US? Specifically, what does this development represent for Guyanese? No matter how nuanced, ...
By GHK Lall I would usually welcome and embrace any call by anyone from anyplace at anytime to remove prejudice from the midst of thinking, visions, and practices. There was one such call uttered here recently by an influential figure. ...