The Guyana National Newspapers Limited (GNNL) has so far spent more than GY$5 million in three months mainly on equipment as well as office furnishings, according to records. The spike in spending has occurred under the less than three-month old tenure ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King The United Nations says Dominica is on the climate-change front-line a year after Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on the island. In the second part of a special report marking the one-year ...
Guyana’s President David Arthur Granger has called on the Council of Legal Education, the Caribbean’s regulatory body for legal education, to increase access to reasonably priced legal education. “The Council, however, should seek new ways of improving access to and ...
President David Granger on Friday again insisted on Justice Kenneth Benjamin as Guyana’s next Chancellor because he emerged as the best candidate for the job, but he declined to say why his pick is better than acting Chancellor Yonette Cummings-Edwards. ...
President David Granger said, while government would be taking steps to remove jail terms for small amounts of marijuana for personal use, concerns have been raised about potentially increased marijuana smoking at a time when steps were being taken to ...
The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) was prepared to accept a 20 percent salary increase for 2016, but would have to accept whatever the arbitration panel decides based on evidence to be submitted by government and the union, union President Mark ...
Guyana is not yet ready to establish the proposed Joseph Haynes Law School because the Caribbean Council of Legal Education (CLE) has found a number of gaps in the feasibility study, Council Chairman Senior Counsel Reginald Armour said. He told ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King As the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) this week begins celebrating Wellness Week 2018, the Washington, D.C.-based organization has underscored the work of health promoters in the Americas, including the Caribbean. ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Azad Ali President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Adrian Saunders says the rule of law and the regional court will play an important part in making the benefits of Guyana’s emerging oil ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King With New York Democratic Primary in mind, a number of New York legislators on Monday, Labor Day, used the massive West Indian American Day Carnival Parade in Brooklyn to seek votes ...