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Guyanese youths will have a chance on Thursday to learn how to make robots as part of a larger push to cultivate their interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The STEM team of American siblings of Guyanese parentage will Thursday, July 21 hold its first robotics camp for Guyanese students at Saint Roses High School from 10 a.m. – 2 ...

by Gary Eleazar Guyana has lost more than US$18 million dollars under its Forest Protection Agreement with Norway inked in 2009. Marlon Bristol, Head of the Project Management Unit of the Office of Climate Change (OCC), made the charge on Wednesday when he testified before the Standing Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Natural Resources. He was among the many department heads to ...

by Gary Eleazar The coalition A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) government says it, “acknowledges” the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS)–flagship project of former, President Bharrat Jagdeo–but it is looking to adopt a different approach in terms of Climate Change challenges, since that strategy was limited. This was among the many disclosures made on Wednesday when the ...

The Ministry of Education on Wednesday declared that no child must be denied registration because their parents or guardians could not afford to pay, while at the same announced a maximum limit for registration fees to be spent o n non-budgetary goods and services. The ministry expressed concern that some School Administrators have been requesting significant sums of money for ...

by Gary Eleazar Investors looking to lease lands for the establishment of industrial sites, agricultural or other domestic purposes will soon have to pay an increased rental fee, as Government is looking to go ahead with a land re-evaluation exercise. This disclosure was made by Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, when he appeared on Wednesday, before the Standing Parliamentary Select ...

The Shipping Association of Guyana (SAG) on Wednesday moved to the High Court to quash a decision by City Hall’s administration to charge GYD$25,000 for the movement of laden shipping containers to and from wharves. In the name of its Secretary, Ian D’Anjou, SAG also wants the High Court to find that efforts to charge a container tax on shipping ...

The two main phone companies say they are now awaiting government’s next move to end the telephone monopoly, with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) saying it wants its contract with the Guyana government honoured. Chief Executive Officer of Digicel (Guyana) Limited, Kevin Kelly said in a brief comment that the passage of the Telecommunications Bill by the National Assembly is the ...

Guyana and other countries that have enacted laws to sentence convicted terrorists to death should take steps to repeal them and also abolish the death penalty altogether, top international advocates against the death penalty said Wednesday. Commissioner with the International Commission against the Death Penalty, Justice Navi Pillay told a news conference ahead of a judicial colloquium with Guyanese judges ...

by Gary Eleazar Social Workers across the country will on Wednesday converge at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre, to formulate a ‘road-map’ on the way forward on the industry’s Standards and Professional Practices. The initiative is spearheaded, in part, by the Ministry of Social Protection and is being done in collaboration with the University of Guyana , the Guyana Association ...

Less than one week after a City Magistrate threw out several charges against businesspersons for failure to pay a GYD$25,000 shipping container tax,  City Hall on Tuesday blocked shipping containers from leaving city wharves unless they pay the same amount of  money to use the roads. Assistant Town Clerk, Sherry Jerrick told reporters outside Muneshwer’s Wharf that the Mayor and ...