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Guyana’s Office of Climate Change (OCC) has reported 2012 as a year of tremendous achievements that ultimately gels with the country’s developmental agenda. Building on these accomplishments, the OCC would this year, continue implementing LCDS projects while raising stakeholder awareness and engagement at all levels. “Work is already underway towards a fourth payment under the Guyana-Norway partnership,” the OCC reported in a press release issued on Wednesday. It added that, “Guyana, having successfully completed its Second National Communications, will commence work on its Third National Communications to the United Nations…

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Cognisant of the huge backlog of court cases, government said it will soon boost the complement of judges from 12 to 20, head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said. During a post-Cabinet press briefing on Wednesday, Dr Luncheon said there will be an increase in the statutory number of judges for the first time in three decades. He explained that President Donald Ramotar will boost the present complement of 12 judges in the judiciary to 20, an increase of eight judges. This will be done as government moves…

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…site was chosen after highly technical study – Dr Ramsammy The NEW GPC warehouse at Farm, East Bank Demerara which is rented by USAID on behalf of the Ministry of Health Former Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy said that government had no role in the selection of the NEW GPC INC warehouse by the United States government to store medical drugs on behalf of the Health Ministry. His comments come in wake of allegations by the Kaieteur News, trying to link the deal as some favour shown to the owner…

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By Vishnu Bisram The New Jersey Arya Samaj plans to build a skills development training centre in Port Mourant, Berbice. It will be the first building to be constructed by the organisation overseas as part of its Humanitarian Mission Village project. The organisation has been involved in many humanitarian projects over the years in Guyana and has been doling out millions of dollars in this regard. The Port Mourant Skills Centre is being spearheaded by Pandit Suresh Sugrim, President of the New Jersey Arya Samaj. It is undertaken in collaboration…

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Incoming GT&T CEO Radha Krishna Sharma Former Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Limited Chief Executive Officer Radha Krishna Sharma has been appointed head of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT& T) with effect from March 1. This announcement was made by the telephone company last Monday via a statement. Sharma will take over from Major General Retired Joseph Singh who has been acting in the capacity of CEO since last June after then CEO Yog Mahadeo resigned. The GT&T statement added that Justin Nedd, who worked with the…

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By Vishnu Bisram Two sisters of a very prominent Guyanese family in Toronto graduated with medical degrees last month in Canada. They join their famous father, Dr Vivian Rambihar and their mom, Dr Vanessa Rambihar, as the third and fourth in the family to become medical doctors. Sherryn (left) is a specialist in Cardiology like her father, while her sister, Nadira, is a Physiatrist (physical and rehabilitation medicine) and internal medicine. Nadira’s husband, Andrew Howlett (right) also graduated with a degree in Psychiatry. They became Fellows of the prestigious Royal…

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By Leanna Bradshaw Digicel Guyana CEO Gregory Dean Digicel Guyana is looking forward to a liberalised sector by April this year, given that government intends to conclude negotiations within the first quarter of the year and have the legislation passed. This was pointed out by a confident Gregory Dean, the Chief Executive Officer of Digicel Guyana, during an exclusive interview with this publication last week. Speaking at his Fort and Barrack streets, Kingston headquarters, Dean said the company was not in any discussion with the government, but was assured that…

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The overall rice production for 2012 has amounted to a historic 422,058 tonnes, and of that amount, exports accounted for 334,000 tonnes. Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy announced last week that the outstanding performer in the rice industry for 2012 was Region Five, which produced 37 per cent of the total quantity of rice. Production from that region exceeded a 150,000 tonnes. Region Six came in second with 108,000 tonnes or 25 per cent of the overall production, followed by Regions Two, Three and Four in terms of their production.…

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