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103 scholarship places available for study at UG
The Minister of Public Service Tabitha Sarabo-Halley Thursday announced that applications are open for a number of Scholarships at the Undergraduate and Master’s Degree level at the University of Guyana for the 2019/2020 academic year.…
ANSA McAL Trading honours top 17 NGSA students
ANSA McAl Trading in collaboration with the Ministry of Education on Wednesday awarded the top 17 students for their performance at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) this year.
The distribution company plans to honour the top 135…
Below average 2018 NGSA students being prepared for Secondary School
The Department of Education is hosting its first ever Transition Camp to help below average performers at the 2018 National Grade Six Assessment to better integrate into secondary schools.
The Transition Camp will last for five days and…
Gov’t to make a one off payment of up to $50K to Venezuelan families in Georgetown
The Ministry of Social Protection will soon begin a ‘Shock Responsive Social Protection System’ aimed at ensuring that the essential needs of 20 Venezuelan families are met.
A press release from the Ministry of the Presidency (MOTP)…
Skills training for Venezuelan migrants in Guyana
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in collaboration with the Government of Guyana through the Kuru Kuru Training College has partnered to offer vocational skills training to Venezuelan migrants, in an effort to make them…
Collapsed sea defence: resources diverted to protect farmlands in Mahaicony
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure says it is conducting emergency works at Dantzig, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara (ECD) to assist rice farmers affected by the breakage of a sea defence dam in the area.
“A walkthrough will be done…
Sea defence collapses in Mahaicony; over 1,000 acres of farmlands under threat
By Bibi Khatoon
Farmers at Columbia and Dantzig, Mahaicony on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) are fearful they will lose millions of dollars as the sea defence protecting their cattle, rice and cash crop collapsed.
The dam which…
Top student who can’t afford QC to attend Berbice High School, Gov’t to offer scholarship
Pawan Etwaroo, one of the Berbice Top students at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) has received a laptop from the Government to continue his studies along with a scholarship.
Etwaroo, a student of Cumberland Primary School in…
Family of Berbice top student cannot afford QC
The family of the Berbice top student at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment must take the tough decision to send him to a school in the region rather than to Queen’s College - the country’s top secondary school.
Pawan “Vicky”…
President, Opposition Leader to meet Thursday
President David Granger will on Thursday meet with Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo on the appointment of a new Chair for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).
This will be the first meeting between the two leaders since the…
