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House Speaker rejects AFC’s request to reschedule parliamentary sitting on eve of Emancipation Day
The Alliance For Change's (AFC's) call for Wednesday's scheduled parliamentary sitting to be pushed back because it would be on...
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US Patent and Trademark Office keen to help Guyana with Intellectual Property; Guyana’s outdated IP laws disincentivise investments
Ms Maria Beatriz Dellore, USPTO's Regional Intellectual Property Advisor for Mercosur, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname Intellectual Property delivering her...
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APNU+AFC, WPA condemn disqualification of girl from national calypso competition
Ezeka Minty In the face of a limited explanation by the Ministry of Education for its decision to disqualify an...
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Shadow Culture Minister to push for modern copyright law to protect artists
Newly-minted Shadow Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Nima Flue-Bess intends to campaign for long-overdue modern copyright legislation to protect...
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Digital Heritage GY: Reducing “cultural deficit”, enhancing diplomacy through digitization
Rohan Sagar Guyana's culture, especially its rich diverse music, is being digitised and for the first time placed in an...
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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 Ken Puddicombe...
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Caribbean Indigenous peoples to ask CDB for help with language preservation
COIP Chairman Chief Ricardo Bharath-Hernandez The Caribbean Organisation of Indigenous Peoples (COIP) plans to ask the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)...
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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...
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India awards Guyana’s President highest award to person of Indian origin
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Irfaan Ali Guyana's President Irfaan Ali will later this month be conferred with...
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Guyanese singing icon, Mark Holder, dies
Mark Holder Guyanese singer of international acclaim, Mark Holder, died Thursday morning in Canada after a period of illness, relatives...
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