As education systems across the Caribbean grapple with challenges of inequality and outdated approaches, key regional stakeholders will determine methods for transforming the delivery of education across the Caribbean at the Regional Symposium and Policy Dialogue on Transforming Education, scheduled for October 2 to 4, 2024, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the Cayman Islands. Hosted by the Caribbean Development Bank ...

Jamaica is eyeing the possibility of leveraging its special economic zone (SEZ) to cash in on Guyana’s oil sector by offering logistics services due to the shallow-draught of Port Georgetown, that island’s Minister of Industry, Investment, & Commerce, Aubyn Hill said Wednesday.  With 11.6 billion barrels of oil equivalent to be extracted and Guyana’s lack of capacity to accommodate large ...

By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington D.C. Some folks live all their lives singing the same old songs, reciting the same old mantras, telling the same old stories. No worries there, because continuity is central to one’s sense of direction, purpose, of self. But while we may understand the cultural coordinates of our groundings, the same cannot ...

by GHK Lall From Free and Easy in Essequibo Coast, Region Two and SN’s Cost-of-Living serial, episode 93, a Guyanese name Hubert Sukhai spoke hauntingly and painfully. It was about what is not so easy, but exemplary in difficulty, as faced in the circumstances being endured by his family. The plight of his family of more than ten is that ...

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)/A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) on Tuesday separately condemned the anti-narcotics raid of the residence of social media activist Melissa Atwell’s mother and grandmother. No one was arrested, but police said they would conduct fingerprint tests on a Ziploc bag of 23 grammes of marijuana they said was ...

Well-known social media commentator and critic of the Guyana government, Melissa Ann Atwell, also known as Melly Mel, on Tuesday accused the Irfaan Ali-led administration of using the police force to target her family under the pretext that the lawmen were looking for narcotics. “The plan was to frame my son but yall didn’t know my son don’t live there. ...

Newly-appointed Guyana Police Force Commander for Region One (Barima-Waini), Superintendent Krishna Ramana at the weekend led a team of law enforcers on an outreach to several communities. The force said that exercise was part of its commitment to fostering a strong relationship between law enforcement and the community.”Mr Ramana, along with other ranks, visited Yarakita, White Water, and Wauna villages, ...

The non-governmental Bartica United Youth Development Group (BUYDG) on Tuesday urged the government and opposition to take steps to ensure that prisoners could vote in Guyana’s elections. “All qualified persons, whether held under the presumption of innocence or after being convicted, pleaded guilty, sentenced to prison, held in any State custodians etc. are given the right to exercise their franchise ...

Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes’ claim that there is no nursery school building at Toka, North Rupununi, resulting in classes being held under a tree is being called into serious question as evidence has been provided that there is a building, though defective. A woman named Indranee Roopsind, in a Social Media comment on Mr Hughes’ ...

Four men tied up an off-duty fireman, who was moonlighting as a taxi driver, bundled him into the back seat of his car and drove the vehicle to rob a businesswoman at Ruimzight, West Coast Demerara, but eventually one of them was caught and he has since identified his accomplices, police said. The fireman, 50-year-old Garfield “Carry” Benjamin, is attached ...