In the face of a limited explanation by the Ministry of Education for its decision to disqualify an eight-year old girl from the national Mashramani Calypso Competition, the opposition said the move violates the child’s rights and accused the government of removing her because the song, ” “How a guh survive with 6.5” criticises government’s 6.5 percent salary increase. Shadow ...
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Digital Heritage GY: Reducing “cultural deficit”, enhancing diplomacy through digitization
Guyana’s culture, especially its rich diverse music, is being digitised and for the first time placed in an Online portal for use as a teaching-learning, research and soft diplomacy tool, according to ethnomusicologist Rohan Sagar. “The whole website concept is an academic platform which was designed through Harvard University, and they are all created under the Creative Commons which is ...
Read More »Canada: Brampton publisher wins Guyanese writing competition
MiddleRoad Publishers wins the Guyana Prize for Literature Fiction Reproduced from Brampton Guardian By Alexandra Shimo Brampton Guardian They publish just four books per year. They operate on a shoestring budget. Yet Brampton’s MiddleRoad Publishers has on its roster the book that won the 2022 Guyana Prize for Literature Fiction. “It was euphoric,” said author Ken Puddicombe, who — as ...
Read More »Caribbean Indigenous peoples to ask CDB for help with language preservation
The Caribbean Organisation of Indigenous Peoples (COIP) plans to ask the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to fund a project to preserve and promote the use of Indigenous languages, according to COIP Chairman Chief Ricardo Bharath-Hernandez. He said the proposal could be formulated and submitted to the Barbados-headquartered regional bank within the next three months, after the COIP and its affiliates ...
Read More »Registration opens for UG’s 2nd Diaspora Conference in May, 2023; calls for papers
The University of Guyana (UG), now in its 60th year, is set to host its 2nd Diaspora Conference at the Turkeyen Campus, Greater Georgetown, Guyana, during the period May 8-10, 2023 under the theme “Calling 592: Honouring, Researching, Reigniting Diaspora.” The Diaspora Conference is one of several signature events being hosted by the University this year to celebrate the institution’s ...
Read More »India awards Guyana’s President highest award to person of Indian origin
Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali will later this month be conferred with India’s highest award for persons of Indian origin, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA), for 2023, the Indian High Commission said Monday. He was selected from among a list of 27 nominees for this year. The 17th PBSA will be conferred by the Honourable President of India as part ...
Read More »Guyana-born artist, Frank Bowling, awarded Knighthood in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Artist Frank Bowling OBE RA has been conferred with the honour of Knight Bachelor in the Birthday 2020 Honours List by Her Majesty The Queen. The Birthday Honours list recognises the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom. During his six-decades long career, Bowling’s relentless pursuit of excellence in painting underpins a lifetime of service ...
Read More »Linden gets TV licence approval after 8-year wait
Linden on Friday moved one step closer to getting its own television station licence, after waiting more than seven years. The Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) made good on last week’s public announcement by Minister of State, Joseph Harmon that Region 10 would be getting approval for its television station this week. Chairman of the GNBA’s Board, Leslie Sobers issued ...
Read More »Trans-Atlantic rower reaches South America on Commonwealth awareness mission
A former British soldier Wednesday evening ended a more than 3,000 mile long row across the Atlantic Ocean from Sierra Leone, West Africa to Guyana, South America to raise awareness about the 53-nation Commonwealth. Former Royal Marines Commando of the British Army, Richard Allen docked at the Transport and Harbours’ Boathouse after the boat capsized at one time and a ...
Read More »77 honoured on Guyana’s 49th Republic anniversary
On the occasion of Guyana’s 49th Republic Anniversary on Saturday, President David Granger – Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Chancellor of the Orders of Guyana – made the following appointments under the Order of Service of Guyana. Cacique’s Crown of Honour High Commissioner Frederick Hamley Case Charles John Ethelwood Fung-A-Fatt, SC Ambassador David Thomas Allan Hales Ambassador Sheik Riyad ...
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