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BUDGET 2023: $200M for new day and night care centres & senior citizens’ home
Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh on Monday announced that $200 million will be spent to construct new day and night care centres and a new home for senior citizens, as part of a wider $40.4 billion allocation for the Ministry of Human…
WIIN 2023 registration opens with new courses
See the full statement below from The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security:
The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, through the Guyana Women’s Leadership Institute, has opened registration for the 2023 batch of…
Four Guyanese selected for US Young Leaders Fellowship Program
Four young leaders out of over 1,800 applicants from Guyana have been accepted for the 2023 US Department of State’s Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellowship programme.
Launched in 2015, YLAI empowers emerging…
Peenie Bear’s Gymbearie provides ‘safe’ space for young minds to develop creativity
The newly opened Peenie Bear’s Gymbearie at Lance Gibbs Street, Georgetown, will provide young children a "safe" space to help them to develop their creativity while providing parents with childcare services that they can trust.
The…
Essequibo man launches search for his five children
A logger of Riverstown Sand in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) is appealing to the public to help him locate his five children who were reportedly taken away from him by his reputed wife.
Kawall (only name given) told the News Room that…
With Guyana’s infrastructure boom, wheelchair user lobbies for greater accessibility
Gabriel Gilkes, a 30-year-old man, knows all too well how difficult it is to access many buildings in Guyana because he is a wheelchair user.
With the ongoing infrastructure boom in Guyana, Gilkes is advocating for more buildings and…
Pigeon Island squatters receive Land Titles
Some 44 persons at the Pigeon Island Squatting Area on the East of Demerara ended the year on a high note, having received legal ownership to the lands they have occupied for years.
Minister within the Ministry of Housing and Water Susan…
Missing Cummings Lodge man found on East Bank
Michael Sukhnandan, the 67-year-old resident of Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown, who was missing since December 16, was found on Wednesday.
According to Melisa Jhari, the man’s niece, the family received a call that he was spotted…
Soldiers save fisherman drifting at sea for more than 20 hours
Members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guard on Monday saved several fishermen, including one who was drifting out at sea for about 20 hours.
According to a Facebook post from National Security Advisor and owner of Roraima…
Woman, child injured as heavy wind damages buildings at Goed Intent
Heavy winds at Goed Intent, West Bank Demerara (WBD), damaged at least two houses, a shop and a vehicle on Monday. An elderly woman and a child were also injured by falling debris.
According to Samantha Prince, a resident of Lot 400 Goed…