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AGRICULTURE Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy is currently in the United States (U.S.) undergoing further medical check-up following his recent hospitalisation in Guyana. This was confirmed Monday by his colleague Minister within the Agriculture Ministry, Mr. Alli Baksh. Baksh reported that Ramsammy was doing well and is due to return to the country shortly and resume his post at the Ministry. The former Health Minister was admitted to the Caribbean Heart Institute in the Georgetown Public Hospital last week Tuesday, after collapsing in his office at Regent and Vlissengen Roads in…

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The Alliance For Change (AFC) will be meeting with the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) administration to commence talks on the 2013 national budget slated to be presented in the National Assembly within weeks by Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh. The two sides will meet on Friday following a request by the government on Tuesday. AFC executive member Cathy Hughes assured the press that the party would be represented during the crucial meeting, noting that key issues raised in the past will be on top of the agenda. Optimistically she said…

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Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, performing the duties of president, on Saturday applauded India’s work against the socio-economic challenges to build and develop the country over the years. Extending fraternal greetings on that country’s 64th republic anniversary observance in Guyana, he lauded India’s achievements and the level of national development made. In his presentation during a reception at the Georgetown Club, Hinds highlighted the relationship and bilateral ties between the two countries, and committed Guyana to furthering the relationship through the areas of trade and economic cooperation, investment, air connectivity and…

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The Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport on Wednesday evening formally launched the National Theatre Art School that will accredit students a diploma after two years of tutoring. The programme will officially begin next Monday with 18 students. In the first year, students are required to take all the courses offered and will be awarded  a certificate and during the second year, they will select a subject to major and minor in for which they will be given a diploma which allows them at another level to secure an associate…

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– probe launched into Mazaruni tragedy By Pushpa Balgobin MARAD will be conducting checks to ensure that all vessels have correct paperwork and all captains are licensed in accordance with maritime standards. Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) representatives headed to Region Seven on Tuesday to conduct preliminary investigations into the cause of last week’s boat collision, which resulted in the death of 10 persons. Region Seven Chairman Gordon Bradford told Guyana Times International that he was eager to sit with MARAD representatives and collectively look over the various recommendations that would…

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The Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) last Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to some government A section of the audience at the Guyana Women Miners Organisation anniversary celebration agencies which it said are slipping away its collaborative hand as they continue advocating for better treatment and equality in the mining industry. “We have worked with the government, we have worked through the Ministry of Natural Resources… we have been disappointed by many of the government agencies who have resisted our attempt for collaboration and showed disregard for our organisation,” GWMO…

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The Agriculture Ministry through the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has come to the rescue of farmers on the island of Wakenaam, who are suffering from a water crisis. Junior Agriculture Minister Ali Baksh said two three-feet tubes will be deployed to the area to assist in the smooth flow of water onto farmlands on the west and eastern sides of the island. Baksh, who was accompanied by NDIA Chief Executive Officer Lionel Wordsworth and a team of regional officials, told scores of frustrated farmers of the move to…

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Guyana was the first country to be reviewed at the 62nd session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (ROC) at the Office of the High Commission on the Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 15. This review was represented by Human Services and Social Security Minister Jenifer Webster, Presidential Advisor on Governance Gail Teixeira and National Commission on the Rights of the Child (ROC) Chairperson Aleema Nasir. Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS) Dr Roger Luncheon explained that the committee in Geneva noted and welcomed…

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