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Guyana Gold Board stops burning gold at Brickdam location; new locations for selling gold to be announced
Left to Right: Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman; General Manager of the Guyana Gold Board, Eondrene Thompson and Gold...
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Gold Board’s mercury polluting lab that sickened GGMC workers to be moved “within the shortest possible time”
Left to Right: Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman; General Manager of the Guyana Gold Board, Eondrene Thompson and Gold...
Read moreDetailsGGMC’s Board recommends temporary closure until mercury clean-up, removal of Gold Board’s laboratory; decision rests with Minister Trotman
Chairman of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), Stanley Ming and Acting GGMC Commissioner, Newell Dennison. The Board of...
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Occupational Safety and Health experts probing mercury poisoning of GGMC workers
Chairman of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, Earl Morris. The Ministry of Social Protection's Occupational Safety and...
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Guyana to update Occupational Safety and Health regulations in preparation for oil and gas
Occupational Safety and Health consultant at the Ministry of Social Protection, Gweneth King Guyana is moving to update its regulations...
Read moreDetailsMercury-poisoned GGMC workers threaten protest over govt’s silence; refusal to shutdown or improve Gold Board’s lab
Guyana Gold Board Workers of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) are threatening protest action if other relevant government...
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Pan-Caribbean multi-stakeholders to discuss strategy for ending AIDS
The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach to the Caribbean’s...
Read moreDetailsGold Board tasked to review location, operations of laboratory in wake of mercury levels
Left to Right: Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman; General Manager of the Guyana Gold Board, Eondrene Thompson and Gold...
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UK readies Guyana’s hospitals for disasters
United Kingdom High Commissioner to Guyana, Greg Quinn (second from left) and Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence (next to...
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PM Nagamootoo returns after heart surgery in US
President David Granger and Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo chatting at a welcome home prayer breakfast. A prayer breakfast Thursday morning...
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