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LINDEN/WISMAR, Guyana (Monday, February 20, 2023) — During an outreach to several communities in Region 10 and along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway (Region Four), last Friday, Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, reassured farmers that they will continue to benefit from the country’s ...

By Dr. Kumar MahabirGuest Contributor It sits innocently in the Undergraduate Humanities Programs list, alphabetically bookended by Theatre Arts and Visual Arts. Yet the University of the West Indies (UWI) Bachelor of Arts BA Theology degree is a jarring testament ...

By the Jamaican Embassy In Washington DCGuest Contributor New Jersey, USA (Sunday, February 5, 2023) —  Jamaica-born Elsie Foster is the new Mayor of the Borough of Highland Park in Middlesex County, New Jersey. She was elected during a special ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Monday, February 6, 2023) — The government intends to improve the public transportation system, as it advances its major transformational agenda, disclosed Public Works Minister, Juan Edghill, while speaking on a local television program, The Guyana Dialogue, last ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Wednesday, December 7, 2022) — States of Public Emergency (SOEs) have been declared in several parishes, and police divisions island-wide, to address an increase in criminal activities and ensure public order. Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, made the announcement ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Thursday, October 20, 2022) — Local Government Elections (LGE) will be held on March 13, next year, the government has announced. Guyanese will head to the polls to elect leaders for 10 townships and approximately 70 Neighborhood Democratic ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (Friday October 21, 2022) — Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Dr. Jerome Walcott, signalled Barbados’ interest in forging stronger ties with Algeria. Senator Walcott expressed this yesterday, during a courtesy call with the new non-resident ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Friday, October 21, 2022) — Guyana’s President, Dr. Irfaan Ali, said that the benefits of Tuesday’s announcement of the UK visa waiver, are not isolated to strengthening relationships and building out opportunities, but it is also an important ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Friday, July 22, 2022) — The National Assembly, yesterday, officially passed the report of the Committee of Privileges, which recommended the suspension of eight Opposition Members of Parliament (MP) — Sherod Duncan, Christopher Jones, Ganesh Mahipaul, Vinceroy Jordan, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Friday, July 22, 2022) — Jamaica will continue to build its capacity to tackle gender-based violence, stressed Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, Zavia Mayne. Addressing the first, of a five-day workshop, of the Regional ...