A team from Guyana – comprised of UG students and staff – has won the international Webby Award from a field of 150 contestants with a proposal to combat deforestation through the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with drones.
Guyana will be attending the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, USA next month but will continue to support CARICOM in its campaign for fair treatment of its long-time ally, Cuba.
A West Coast Berbice woman says she has finally broken free after years of abuse by her husband and is now requesting assistance from the authorities to move on with her life as she left her home with just a few pieces of clothing.
Several communities across the country have reported floods following persistent heavy rainfall on Saturday and yesterday.
President Irfaan Ali says that Brazilian investors from the neighbouring State of Roraima are interested in becoming part of CARICOM’s vision of reducing its food import bill by 25% by 2025.
MARIUPOL, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russian soldiers cleared mines and debris on the industrial grounds of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol yesterday after hundreds of Ukrainian forces holed up in the vast plant for weeks were ordered to stand down.
The Ministry of Education is inviting trained teachers with three or more years’ service to apply for a scholarship to pursue an approved degree at the University of Guyana.
TORONTO, (Reuters) – The death toll from powerful thunderstorms in Canada’s two most populous provinces this weekend rose to at least eight, authorities said yesterday, as emergency crews continued a massive clean-up to restore power to half a million people.
Trinidadian manufacturer, Novo Life Farms, says it is prepared to partner with Guyanese farmers for the supply of raw produce as it seeks to increase production and enter new markets with its line of processed food products.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden, in Seoul before heading to Japan as part of his first Asia trip as president, had a simple message for North Korea’s Kim Jong Un: “Hello… period,” he told reporters on the last day of his visit to South Korea yesterday.
The Ministry of Health yesterday reported 48 new cases of COVID-19.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said yesterday that one of its officers, Colonel Sayad Khodai, was killed in a rare assassination in Tehran.
The Ministry of Health has expressed sympathy on the passing of Chetwyn Phoenix on Thursday.
Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago this morning signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will cater for the establishment of a high-level bilateral commission and would address areas such as non-tariff barriers and dispute settlement.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Commonwealth secretary-general Patricia Scotland is currently in St Kitts and Nevis to attend the three-day eighth Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Caribbean Association of Integrity Commissions and Anti-Corruption Bodies (CCAICACB) from May 23 to 25.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Only Ukraine has the right to decide its future, the Polish president told lawmakers in Kyiv today, as he became the first foreign leader to give a speech in person to the Ukrainian parliament since Russia’s Feb.
With rising concerns about food insecurity, CARICOM Heads who met in Georgetown at an agricultural conference have listed four urgent priorities including tearing down trade barriers and scaling up regional transportation.
Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) yesterday announced that the company is currently in search of land to forge ahead with its plan to house the proposed TOPCO milk plant project for commercial scale production of fresh cow’s milk.
Producers have voiced grave concern over the proposed steep hike in rates for the rental of the National Cultural Centre and one has accused Minister of Culture Charles Ramson Jr of micromanaging the sector and not recognising the importance of creatives.
This is the fourth entry in a series on civil society Apart from an introductory meeting when this government took office in August 2020, the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) has been unable to meet with the Minister of Amerindian Affairs to discuss a number of issues pertaining to Indigenous Peoples’ rights, policy and legislative reform, says Governance and Rights Coordinator, Laura George.
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