Caribbean governments are being urged to ban sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) from school environments and integrate the health, education and agriculture ministries, in an effort to reduce stem the scourge of  non-communicable diseases such as diabetes. President of the Healthy Caribbean Coalition, Sir Trevor Hassell issued the call at the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) 2018 being held in Barbados. He ...

The Guyana government is offering teachers a 10 percent salary increase for 2016, eight percent for 2018, and GY$350 million to adjust some salary scales, a Guyana Teachers’ Union official confirmed Monday night. Asked about the fact that no mention was made of a salary hike for 2017, a senior union official said on condition of anonymity the GTU would ...

Sir Trevor Hassell, the President of the Healthy Caribbean Coalition- an  internationally-recognised non-profit organisation in the fight against non-communicable diseases- on Monday challenged agriculture stakeholders across the region to take up huge swathes of land in Guyana and Suriname to produce healthy foods. “I challenge all in agriculture to pursue means of developing agricultural opportunities in Guyana and Suriname where ...

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has denied any involvement in recent actions by the Surinamese telecoms authority to pull the data sharing service that was being provided to its competitor, Digicel Guyana. The company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Justin Nedd made this clear at a media briefing at the Herdmanston Lodge, just over a week after Digicel’s data ...

President David Granger and top officials of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) on Monday held talks aimed at staving off another strike by teachers. GTU General Secretary, Coretta Mc Donald told the media briefly that the President addressed the meeting and new proposals for a salary increase and adjusting salary scales were made. No details were provided, but she said ...

A Queenstown, Essequibo Coast farmer is in police custody as investigators probe the shooting of another farmer in the Quwenstown backlands early Saturday morning, Guyana Police Force sources said. Sustaining pellet wounds to his middle lower back and left buttock is 54-year old Lynden Smith of 57 Queenstown. He was treated at the Suddie Hospital. Peters said he did not ...

Two bandits, who pretended to be policemen, slammed the living quarters of a security guard, forcing him to flee the premises after which the tied him up and stole GY$6.1 million dollars in items from a sand pit operation, police said. The incident occurred at Jason Baskarran Sand Pit, Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke- Linden Highway. Security guard, 68 year old Harold Peters ...

By GHK Lall In the middle of what could only be termed the new American Civil War, what does the Kavanaugh confirmation mean for minorities in the US?  Specifically, what does this development represent for Guyanese?  No matter how nuanced, it was a war over there; it is one that will continue. I think that, like that one from 1861, ...

By GHK Lall I would usually welcome and embrace any call by anyone from anyplace at anytime to remove prejudice from the midst of thinking, visions, and practices.  There was one such call uttered here recently by an influential figure.  I confess readily to instant skepticism; such is the creep of cynicism, the chronic crises of confidence that bedevil this ...

Congratulating the E-Networks company as a leader in innovative cable television services, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo said it pioneered the transformation of quality services via cable and high definition fibre optics. On the evening of October 5, the telecommunications company celebrated its 15th anniversary with a gala cocktail at the Marriott Hotel, Kingston Georgetown. The Prime Minister was quoted by ...